Dr. Rhonda Patrick

Can we can we just dive a little bit into their effectiveness?

Like there's like is there human data on it?

Like do you know anything about how they're working?

I mean, I've seen I've read some of the human studies, particularly on the vitamin D and like getting like.

Higher dose vitamin D supplementation, improving testosterone.

But I mean, I'd love to kind of just take a moment to kind of talk a little bit more about that if you want.

In your opinion, like let's say someone is on the deficient range of vitamin D, their inadequate magnesium, perhaps their zinc is, you know, maybe OK or in the inadequate range.

Would getting to that sufficient status really move the needle with respect to like testosterone?

Yeah, I'd love to talk about those.

I mean, you hear some of these herbal supplements and like some of the ashwagandha fenugreek with Tonga Ali.

I mean, let's dive into that.

Like, are they effective?

Which ones are effective?

Which ones are hype?

What was that compound they're standardized to again?

And is that the active compound that affects testosterone?

What's a dose that would be considered overdoing it and what's a dose that would maybe be effective for suppressing the cortisol response and indirectly affecting testosterone by not having the cortisol decreasing the testosterone?

That sounds awful.

Yeah.

But I mean, for someone who is more of an anxious phenotype, like.