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specifically on top of the minerals and vitamins that everyone's familiar with from multivitamins and whatnot are more difficult to get in adequate doses.

All but zinc is typically adequately in many multivitamins, but magnesium in particular almost never is because of the weight of it.

You would be having to take a multivitamin that's like eight to 10 capsules otherwise, which just nobody does.

And then the vitamin D, it's fat soluble.

Typically, you're going to have it in like a soft gel or something, and it's not always going to be at the dose you need.

in the multivitamins, it's just worth noting.

So those are just some low-hanging fruits that are, if you don't look to those as part of your micronutrient optimization strategy, like you could be overlooking low-hanging fruit that dead, like,

is a deterioration of you know 100 plus nanograms per deciliter per deficient uh micro potentially depending on how severe the deficiency um other things i could point to being obese like the worst one probably that i probably should have mentioned first but is like so dramatically impactful on your uh negative feedback to the hypothalamic pituitary axis so by that i mean

Men who are obese and women, if you have a significant amount of fat, it is going to elevate your aromatization, which is your conversion of testosterone to estrogen.

And this is more impactful in males because of how the brain gets signaled from estrogen, not testosterone.

directly as significantly there's a bit of a nuance there but in general like you need adequate estrogen to tell your brain okay we're good you don't need to make enough to sauce more testosterone because i have enough estrogen like that's kind of like the downstream cascade of these metabolite conversions is you produce testosterone

in order to produce other things too and the estrogen is a very potent mediator of telling your brain we're good and if you have a significantly elevated amount of estrogen being converted from your testosterone that you make because of how much fat you have you are basically achieving the proportional increase in estrogen that is much higher than the amount of testosterone substrate

that led to that conversion so you have that signal telling your brain okay we're good but the amount of testosterone you actually had to begin with was not good so that's problematic people who are obese have you know upwards of i would love to give hard and fast numbers but it could be like significant like half of a reference range maybe you know it could be the differential between you being you know

the quality of life of you're fine versus you're blatantly in, you know, severe deficiency.

And what else could I point to?

Um,

Yeah, as long as you are losing ideally like visceral fat and like overall fat loss is going to be very supporting of getting that ratio back into balance of your estrogen and the amount that's converted to estrogen, estradiol in particular.

And once that balance is favorable because you are leaner, you will have a balanced amount of feedback to the brain that then regulates like the perfect homeostasis between, okay, now we have adequate testosterone and estrogen.

So you will actually notice more testosterone being produced because it realizes that

To get this signal that we deem adequate, we had to produce more testosterone to get that amount of estrogen.