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But those are the three things that move the needle most reliably that are natural.

You, you know, otherwise would get through your diet, but likely not sufficiently.

Maybe zinc you might, but like magnesium, pretty difficult, I would say for a lot of people, they don't realize how deficient they are.

And then even like supplementing accordingly, it's like, you know, getting one that you respond to.

that you tolerate well with your digestive system, has the yield that actually produces enough magnesium from like the elemental weight of the supplement, which is not that complicated.

I don't wanna make it sound super complicated.

Like a lot of them are fine.

Miranda has great articles on magnesium formats that are bioavailable and yield more than enough magnesium.

And yeah, the vitamin D, having an adequate amount, making sure you're converting it and actually getting the activity from it.

Mechanistically, there is some level of gene transcription capacity facilitated through these, like vitamin D is a hormone, for example, and it does also affect androgen receptor activity.

and some like the capacity for androgens to do what they do, not just like the production of the amount of them.

So similar to what I talked about earlier, where you have this kind of like receptor interaction, how well can you actually utilize these hormones to do the things it needs to do in the body?

Some of this is going to be facilitated by the adequate minerals and hormones through vitamin D supporting it.

And it's not necessarily measurable as much like directly, but all you can really do is like backfill accordingly to hit your needs and then assess your kind of like proxies and your blood work and your symptoms and kind of go from there.

I think if you were on the low end of the reference range or literally hypogonadal and you were

clinically low or deficient for those depending if it's all three or not because obviously there'd be an additive effect most of them are i mean at least vitamin vitamin d magnesium pretty common yeah yeah i would say like you're looking at probably a potential incremental difference of 100 to 150 total t maybe it kind of depends on the person of course like i've seen more robust response in some studies but i also don't want to like over exaggerate the expectations

but it is meaningful.

Like it's something that happens and some of it can't be directly measured either.

Like we're talking about the total T number, but it's like, how do you know how much your deficient vitamin D is impacting your ability to like use it correctly?

And then even if you had the sufficient vitamin D, the magnesium impact on all that and the DNA interactions and whatnot, it's like, you know, you would have, you'd be speculating at best.