Dr. Rhonda Patrick

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

You mentioned the gonadotropins.

What would the luteinizing hormone or follicle-stimulating hormone, FSH, what would those kind of look like in the cases where it's kind of like a red flag?

I mean, is...

Yeah, we're going to get into a little bit, but okay.

What about the sex-binding globulin hormone, SBGH?

Sex hormone-binding globulin.

What about the sex hormone-binding globulin?

Like, you're talking about, like, if...

if you have a lot, if you have a high level of that and it's bound up to your testosterone.

So a couple of questions here, what regulates those levels and what regulates like,

How much of that testosterone can then get away from that, you know, binding protein and then be used to, you know, obviously exert hormonal activity.

So, you know, can you can you like dial in looking at just that binding protein itself to help kind of solve some issues?

And that's only with oral.

Since we're talking about the SPGH levels, I kind of want to like, what is their lifestyle?

So does age regulate that and also like lifestyle factors?

And this is also something that would be relevant for females too, right?

Is that something that's common?

So in other words, like if they have if their libido is like totally down, perhaps like they're having a harder time losing fat, gaining muscle, losing fat.

It might it could come down to this.