Elizabeth Yurth, M.D.

But I do think they should fall suit a little bit because I do think healthy aging is going to rely on replacing those things that we've lost, hormones and peptides.

At some point, it may be earlier, it may be later, at some point, your testosterone is going to decline.

At some point, your estrogen is going to decline.

Absolutely critical.

right?

We know what happens when estrogen levels drop.

You get cardiovascular disease, you get brain disease, you get loss of bone muscle.

So it's impossible.

And I tell people, I have these people who come in and they're like, well, I don't want hormones, I don't want testosterone, but I'm going to the gym, I'm working out, I'm doing all this stuff and nothing's happening.

Well, you can't.

I mean, you can't build muscle if you don't have testosterone.

And again,

People, this decline happens at different rates and different ages.

We're seeing it earlier and earlier now, or seeing hormones decline in people's 20s.

So we're seeing it earlier and earlier.

And honestly, the earlier you could actually intervene, the better off we are going to be.

So let's talk about cognitive health.

Again, hormones are going to still be paramount for brain health because estrogen is so critical to the brain.

So in men, testosterone has some benefits in the brain too, but men that rely on testosterone converting to estrogen, that's really the most brain beneficial.

So one of the reasons women get dementia more than men is simply because of the decline in estrogen and women live longer.