Dr. Rhonda Patrick

In fact, we had a conversation and I was asking you some questions and your knowledge was very impressive in terms of the scope and depth.

So all things testosterone kind of just wanted to start with.

the role of testosterone in men.

I mean, it's obviously fundamental for male health, but I'd love if you could kind of just outline some of the primary functions of testosterone in men.

I do.

We are going to focus a lot on the role of testosterone in males and men.

But I do kind of just briefly before we will eventually talk about females and women.

But what is the major role of testosterone in women?

I mean, women obviously don't make as much as men, but they do make testosterone and it does play a functional role.

So given the role of testosterone in all these important physiological processes that you just described, everything from muscle health, bone health, neurological health, red cell production, et cetera, what about

the trade-offs of testosterone.

And I mentioned this because of my interest in longevity, my long interest in life expectancy and looking at life expectancy between men and women.

And you really see amongst pretty much all mammal species that the females outlive the males.

Obviously, there's a lot of differences going on there, but testosterone is also something that does, you know, differentiate.

There's a big difference between the levels of testosterone between males and females.

So I'm kind of curious.

I know you think about a lot of these things, and so I'm curious what your thoughts are with respect to the tradeoffs of testosterone with respect to longevity.

Yeah.

Yeah, I mean, it's kind of a loaded question because there's probably a lot of factors at play here in terms of like the differences in life expectancy between males and females.

And you're pointing out the size difference is one, you know, maybe it's the lack of estrogen, right?