Dr. Rhonda Patrick

I'd love to kind of dive into an area that I know you have a lot of knowledge, you know, just based off of your company, Merrick Health, where you guys are really helping people optimize their hormone levels.

And so I kind of want to talk a little bit about some of the best practices for measuring testosterone, interpreting the results.

Could you kind of outline some of the

optimal best practices for actually measuring testosterone levels.

So, you know, optimal timing, repeated measures, like free testosterone versus bound testosterone or total testosterone, right?

Like what's the difference here?

What should they like consider?

So you sort of alluded to this, like talking about reference ranges.

And I kind of want to get into that because like, you know, there are these like reference ranges that you see.

And I'm just kind of like curious, like how does a man navigate that?

where their testosterone should be, what the reference ranges mean.

How do you look at this?

How does your company look at this with respect to age, with respect to symptoms?

Let's say someone's on the lower end of the reference range, but they have no symptoms, or someone's at the higher end of the range, but they have symptoms.

How does one sort of interpret what their...

testosterone data shows and how does the potential for someone who's actually hypogonadal, so people that are actually not making testosterone, right?

How does that sort of complicate it?

Is that something that's measured readily?

Like, can you measure your response to your androgen receptor activity?

Or is that something that's not really known and you kind of have to do some... There are like proxies for it.