Dr. Kyle Gillett

So testosterone is not going to cause a prostate cancer.

However, normal aging causes prostate cancer and testosterone will grow your prostate cancer.

So if you're a 80-year-old male and you have an autopsy, then there's at least a 50% chance that you have a prostate cancer.

If you're 90 or 100 years old, there's at least a 90% chance.

So for humans with a prostate, it's only a matter of time until you get a prostate cancer.

So that begs the question, do you want to take something that's going to grow it for sure once you have it?

So it's an individual assessment.

With aging, you know, fast aging is abnormal.

Very slow aging is normal.

There's a fine line to walk between those two.

The way I describe it is the dopamine wave pool.

So if you're increasing your dopamine too much, you're going to overflow, and then you're going to have that wave crash too much.

So you want to have nice, even waves that are not going too far above the pool of dopamine, and prolactin will follow.

So prolactin and estrogen are quite close cousins.

Estrogen upregulates a gene called the PRL gene or prolactin gene that directly increases prolactin synthesis.

So prolactin is going to also inhibit the release of testosterone from the pituitary.

So if you're using a dopamine agonist, then you're going to help decrease the prolactin producing cells.

So if someone's concerned about dopamine, or maybe they have a slightly higher prolactin, then they eliminate things that could be increasing that prolactin.

Such as?

Casein or gluten, which are mu opioid receptor agonists or any mu opioid receptor agonist in the gut.