Dr. Rhonda Patrick

Maybe we can talk just a little bit about like why low-fat diets and why people should be incorporating fat into their diet to make sure that they're... Yeah, like in general, it's not like if you have...

Well, it's interesting I learned something from you because I was aware of the importance of fat, particularly a certain amount of saturated fat, which is known to increase endogenous cholesterol production.

But the carbohydrates and the insulin response and having that insulin action or response, I didn't realize that was also important.

Yeah.

especially for the free hormones, the amount of free hormones.

So it's interesting to think about a ketogenic diet.

As you mentioned, some people can really be in a problematic state if they're on a ketogenic diet and their free testosterone just kind of tanks.

Well, what you're saying is like get your hormones measured, measure them right and make sure that you're monitoring.

Yeah.

Right.

Yeah.

With respect to other sort of like lifestyle factors that can maybe boost testosterone.

So we're talking about dietary factors here.

Yeah.

What about exercise?

Resistance training is one that comes to my mind when I think about trying to boost testosterone.

I mean, is there merit to that?

Is that something that moves the needle?

With respect to some of the micronutrients, it kind of this kind of gets into the supplement area as well.

But you mentioned some important ones that I've also kind of like come across in the literature and that being vitamin D, zinc, magnesium.