Derek (More Plates More Dates)

Like, how do I stop everything metabolically taxing from happening?

Let's shut down all systems.

Nor do we have the substrate to actually produce these hormones to begin with.

That's kind of what happens when you get like really, really malnourished.

And with endurance running, like I've seen guys out eat, you know, 5000 plus calorie per day diets when they're doing like really intensive endurance activity.

So if you are not fueling adequately and with the right fuel, micronutrient density, macro allotment, the how much of it is like carbs versus fat versus protein.

Yeah, you could absolutely exercise yourself into a state of hypogonadism easily.

I would caveat not easily.

It's hard to train that hard.

Kudos to the people mentally strong enough to do that, I guess.

And like some people might not even realize how significant of a deterioration hormone production I'm talking about.

Like to give context, men who are dieting for bodybuilding shows naturally, it is not uncommon to see the end result of a hormone profile on like the last week.

Them to look more female on paper than like their girlfriend.

Like that's how low their testosterone levels are.

Not always, but sometimes.

yeah i think we're pretty convinced that there is an effect it's just the magnitude at which you often see hyped up i think maybe over exaggerated there are low-hanging fruit things to absolutely avoid like don't use you know plastic tupperware and like heat it up and stuff like that try and use glass when you can um

Try and ensure you have like high quality air, if possible, like pollution, I think is a big factor for like your body's capacity to deal with stress and like the allocation of resources to be chronically dealing with a toxic environment will inhibit systemic like broad systems.

Yeah.

Water quality like you can make sure you have like decent water I think I'd be solid but as far as like the actual magnitude of impact of those things for most people I think is gonna be relatively negligible in contrast till like the obesity the diet the exercise the sleep quality the Potential

Carcinogens that might be exposing themselves to, you know, some of the lifestyle stuff is like way more important to be addressing as like the base infrastructure before you start thinking about like, oh, it must be my like shower that is like shooting chlorine on me.