Dr. Rhonda Patrick

That's wild.

Just to kind of sum up the like factors to avoid.

I wanted to get your opinion on endocrine disrupting chemicals.

Like how have you or has your, you know, your company looked or seen anything or do you have any speculation to like what the scientific literature has shown in terms of them affecting hormone levels?

I often hear from many people, popular media as well as just people I speak to or comments that I read about testosterone levels being lower now in men than they have ever been.

For one, like...

Is that true?

Do you think that's true?

And two, like, what are some of the major contributors?

Is it obesity, since obesity is rampant?

I mean, or is it just like everything that you mentioned, all sort of like compounding together, not necessarily just the increase in, you know, BPA and plastic, you know, endocrine disrupting chemicals that are now a lot more prevalent than they were, you know, 60 or 70 years ago?

Does chlorine have an effect on testosterone?

I don't I don't like maybe.

OK.

Yeah, I think I think more of like BPA, but and consuming it like or like you said, hot, like heating up the plastic or like hot beverages, like going into like something plastic.

But yeah, I agree.

I think that these lifestyle factors are paramount.

And

I'd love to kind of get a little bit more into some of those, particularly like, so you've already mentioned the diet and I'm kind of, you mentioned protein, fat, carbohydrate, you know, like, so what, why are some of these important?

So fats are important to make, you know, the backbones of hormones.