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Speaker 3: Could a bottle of coke actually increase your distosterone? That's
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Speaker 3: the wild claim that came from a new study that
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Speaker 3: had the Internet absolutely buzzing. The headline was that Coca
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Speaker 3: cola and pepsi boosted testicle size and testosterone in mice,
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Speaker 3: and as you can probably guess, the Internet went nuts.
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Speaker 3: Unintended news outlets grabbed it, influencers were talking about it,
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Speaker 3: and for a second there it seemed like the secrets
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Speaker 3: of sky high testosterone levels was hiding in the nearest
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Speaker 3: Sam and Xavier. Quick question for you guys, why do
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Speaker 3: you guys think headlines like soda boost testosterone spread like
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Speaker 3: wildflower compared to boring advice like eat your broccolis? Do
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Speaker 3: you guys think this is like wish full thinking or
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Speaker 3: we're just looking for a shortcut that helps us, you know,
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Speaker 3: helps us keep our bad habits.
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Speaker 4: I think everybody just wants what they can't have or
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Speaker 4: don't have enough of. And you know that first hot
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Speaker 4: headline and it gets you, like soda boosting my testostero.
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Speaker 1: I can have my coke and have increased the saustro.
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Speaker 1: Hell yeah, got my cake and eat it too. It's
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Speaker 1: the best of both worlds. Grass is greener everyone.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, everyone wants it. Everyone wants it. Everyone wants it
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Speaker 3: the easy way. I think that's a big, big thing too.
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Speaker 3: But is there any truth to this? Is chugging a
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Speaker 3: soda the key? It's unlocking some new level of manhood.
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Speaker 3: We looked at the science, we found it. It's not
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Speaker 3: what you guys think it is. When do you look
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Speaker 3: at the research on actual humans, It tells a very
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Speaker 3: different story. And that's the part the headlines left out.
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Speaker 5: So to figure out what's.
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Speaker 3: Really going on, you have to start with the study
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Speaker 3: that kicked off all this chaos. It's easy to get
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Speaker 3: confused by headlines. So let's get crystal clear on what
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Speaker 3: their researchers actually did and what they found.
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Speaker 2: The study was published in the Journal of Acta Endochronologica
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Speaker 2: in twenty twenty two by a group of researchers in China.
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Speaker 2: They wanted to see how carbonated drinks affected male fertility
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Speaker 2: in mice, so they set up an experiment where for
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Speaker 2: fifteen days they gave different groups of mice different things
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Speaker 2: to drink. You had your control group, which was water.
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Speaker 2: Then you had your test groups. One got a fifty
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Speaker 2: to fifty mix of coke and water and another one
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Speaker 2: hundred percent coke. They did the same thing with pepsi
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Speaker 2: and then over these fifteen days they tracked the mice,
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Speaker 2: weighed them, and checked their homeown levels. Now here's the
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Speaker 2: part that blew up online and everyone was talking about.
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Speaker 2: At the end of the experiment, the science just found
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Speaker 2: some pretty shocking things. The mice drinking one hundred percent
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Speaker 2: coke and one hundred percent pepsi showed surprising changes compared
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Speaker 2: to the controlled water drinking group.
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Speaker 3: First, their testicles were larger. The study reported that the
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Speaker 3: mass of the testes was significantly higher in some of
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Speaker 3: the soda drinking groups. And second, this is the big one,
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Speaker 3: their serum testosterone went up. The study significantly noted that
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Speaker 3: serum testosterone in the one percent pepsi group was higher
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Speaker 3: in the contl was higher than the control group. The
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Speaker 3: researchers concluded that drinking the sodas could promote testse growth
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Speaker 3: and improved testosterones secreation in male mice. They even suggested
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Speaker 3: that their work provided a scientific basis for understanding how
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Speaker 3: these drinks affect human reproduction. You could see why this
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Speaker 3: went viral. It's the perfect recipe for sensational headlines. It
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Speaker 3: takes something we all know acount of coke, and links
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Speaker 3: it to something a lot of men like to think
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Speaker 3: about their testosterone levels. Plus, it completely flipped what we've
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Speaker 3: been told about soda on its head. The idea is
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Speaker 3: that this guilty pleasure might secretly boost your testosterone levels
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Speaker 3: was just too good to pass up.
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Speaker 4: And so from the media they just ran with it.
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Speaker 4: Headlines popped up everywhere, all shouting the same basic message,
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Speaker 4: drinking coke and pepsi increases testosterone. It was like wishful
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Speaker 4: thinking confirm. But that's where the story should have stopped
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Speaker 4: and the real question should have been started, because before
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Speaker 4: you are shout to buy a twelve peck, there are
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Speaker 4: huge reasons why these findings in mice tell a completely
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Speaker 4: different story for you, the human.
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Speaker 3: This is where the viral hype slams into the scientific reality.
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Speaker 3: Everything we've talked about so far is the grained truth.
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Speaker 5: It's what the mouse study did find.
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Speaker 3: The study is real, but the conclusions people drew from it,
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Speaker 3: that's where it sort of falls apart. There were a
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Speaker 3: few massive, critical problems with taking this nouse study and
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Speaker 3: applying it to your own life, and the biggest one
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Speaker 3: can be summed up in forwards. Men are not mice.
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Speaker 3: Now we see mouse studies cited in health news all
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Speaker 3: the time. In your mind, what's the biggest danger in
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Speaker 3: treating a lab mouse like a teenagement in a suit?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think this happens a lot. Like a lot
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Speaker 4: of times they do studies in mice with different drugs
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Speaker 4: and stuff that we're using and researching, and they found
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Speaker 4: these different effects, but it doesn't always translate, you know,
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Speaker 4: to the human. Same thing with like in lab. You know,
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Speaker 4: they do stuff in vitro or in vivo in the
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Speaker 4: lab and then they try to translate it to the human.
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Speaker 4: It doesn't always work.
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Speaker 2: That can be confusing for people because they see that
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Speaker 2: positive result. And we've talked about this before different trial
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Speaker 2: studies and stages of FDA trials and animal studies being
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Speaker 2: an early one, but going off on a tangent, just
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Speaker 2: a shout out to a local company, a Curis, they
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Speaker 2: do humanized to patasite injections, so essentially they can make
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Speaker 2: mouse livers mostly human liver cells, and so you can
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Speaker 2: use these in early stages similar to this early stages
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Speaker 2: of studies to kind of help show a better representation.
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Speaker 2: But again it's still an early piece. Even though it
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Speaker 2: is human cells in there that can then react to
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Speaker 2: viral hepatitis, can react to side effects of drugs better
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Speaker 2: than that mouse originally, there's still a lot of steps
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Speaker 2: involved before it even gets to humans, before it even
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Speaker 2: gets to the market. So even something that is much
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Speaker 2: much closer of mouse human cells is still a long
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Speaker 2: ways to it being a sound medical advice.
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Speaker 3: I didn't know that they're making or they're trying to
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Speaker 3: turn a mice liver into human livers.
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Speaker 5: That's pretty that's pretty interesting.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's drugs.
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Speaker 4: No more accurate though.
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Speaker 3: Well, what sort of surprises me with things like this
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Speaker 3: is that, I mean, obviously men are not mice, and
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Speaker 3: we can't We can only extrapolate so much from studies
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Speaker 3: like this, But I mean, even like, human races are
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Speaker 3: different when it comes to certain treatment stuff, right, and
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Speaker 3: so we acknowledge in human care there's a big difference.
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Speaker 3: So it's funny to me that people want to make
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Speaker 3: this connection with mice when there's already so many differences
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Speaker 3: with human beings. But that's another that's another tangent I
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Speaker 3: won't get into. Well, it sounds blunt, but it's the
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Speaker 3: golden rule of this kind of research. An animal study,
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Speaker 3: especially on rodents, is often a starting point for science,
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Speaker 3: not a finished line for human health advice. They can
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Speaker 3: be useful for exploring ideas, but they're not just a
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Speaker 3: reliable preview of what's happening in human's The history of
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Speaker 3: medicine is filled with ceres that work perfectly for mice
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Speaker 3: but failed or even cost harm in Newman trials. There's
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Speaker 3: a joke in research community. I'm told it's if you're
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Speaker 3: a mouse, we can cure you almost anything. That's because
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Speaker 3: our physiology is different, our metabolism is different.
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Speaker 5: A fifteen day study for mouse.
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Speaker 3: Is as a significant chunk of its life, but it
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Speaker 3: doesn't translate perfectly to our much longer lifespan on our
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Speaker 3: vastly different lifestyle.
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Speaker 2: Plus, to point out these lab mice again controlled cages,
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Speaker 2: eating controlled diet where there's only one thing that's changed,
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Speaker 2: and that.
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Speaker 5: Was their drink.
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Speaker 2: We're talking about this example humans being obviously, as you
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Speaker 2: just said, chaos of genetics, different markers, lifestyles, diets, stress,
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Speaker 2: a million other things that we're trying to control for
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Speaker 2: and control for these hormones. You can't just die. It's
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Speaker 2: like one thing like soda and expect to have that
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Speaker 2: same effect.
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Speaker 4: Right. Think of it this way. A race car runs
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Speaker 4: on a high octane racing fuel. If you pour that
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Speaker 4: fuel into your family car, it's not going to break
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Speaker 4: any track racers, You're going to short the engine. The
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Speaker 4: systems are different. So when you see a headline based
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Speaker 4: on a mouth study, your first reaction should always be skepticism,
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Speaker 4: not excitement.
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Speaker 3: So if the mouth study is questionable at best, what
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Speaker 3: happens when we look at studies on actual humans? What
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Speaker 3: does the research on men not mice, say about soda
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Speaker 3: and testosterone?
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Speaker 2: And there's your plot twist. The big studies on thousands
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Speaker 2: of humans men have shown the exact opposite.
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Speaker 4: The most important piece of evidence comes from a huge,
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Speaker 4: respected project run by the CDC. It's called the National
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Speaker 4: Health and Nutrition Examination Survey or in hang in a
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Speaker 4: ha and ees, and it's the gold standard for this
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Speaker 4: type of debt.
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Speaker 3: In a study published in Reproductive Biology and into Chronology,
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Speaker 3: researchers looked at data from five hundred and forty five
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Speaker 3: men from ages of twenty to thirty nine, basically the
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Speaker 3: prime age for healthy testosterone. We're still in that group.
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Speaker 5: Woo whoop.
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Speaker 3: They grouped the men based on how many sugary sweet
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Speaker 3: beverages they had or SSB as they called it, like
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Speaker 3: coke and pepsi that they drink. What they found was
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Speaker 3: actually a clear link. The more sugary drinks a man had,
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Speaker 3: the higher his chances were of having lower testosterone let's
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Speaker 3: get specific here. The guys in the highest consumption group,
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Speaker 3: drinking about four hundred and forty two calories or more
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Speaker 3: of sugary drinks a day were more than twice as
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Speaker 3: likely to have low tustosterone compared to the guys who
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Speaker 3: drank the least. Let me say that again because it's
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Speaker 3: the most important part here. The highest intake of sugary
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Speaker 3: soda was linked to more than double the risk of
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Speaker 3: having clinically low testosterone in young man. This was true
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Speaker 3: even after researchers accounted for things like ahe bmi physical activity.
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Speaker 5: This wasn't a small thing.
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Speaker 3: This was a major statistical link, and it's not just
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Speaker 3: that one study, another huge project using data from UK Biobank,
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Speaker 3: looked at hundreds of thousands of people. It found that
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Speaker 3: the higher intake of fruitose, the main sugar and Minnesota's
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Speaker 3: was associated with lower levels of this cute protein called
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Speaker 3: called sex hormone binding globulin or SHGb and men.
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Speaker 2: So now we have a big conflict in one corner.
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Speaker 2: A small short term study and a handful of mice
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Speaker 2: says soda boosts your testosterone, and the other large scale
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Speaker 2: data from thousands of humans saying soda is linked to
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Speaker 2: a much higher risk of low distoster.
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Speaker 4: When you're faced with that, which evidence do you trust
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Speaker 4: for your own health? The answer is obvious. The human
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Speaker 4: data is overwhelming more relevant. The conclusion from the human
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Speaker 4: evidence is clear. Regularly drinking sugary soda is a risk
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Speaker 4: factor for lower testosterone, not a strategy for boosting.
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Speaker 5: So that leads us to the next big question.
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Speaker 3: Why if the human data is so clear that soda
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Speaker 3: is bad for testosterone, what is going on here? The
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Speaker 3: answer has nothing to do with any secret ingredients in
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Speaker 3: Coca cola and everything to do with one thing, sugar.
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Speaker 3: The connection between tons of sugar and low testosterone is
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Speaker 3: well established, and it works in a few powerful ways. First,
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Speaker 3: the most obvious is the link between sugar, weight gain,
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Speaker 3: and hormones. Sugary drinks are the biggest source of added
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Speaker 3: sugar for a lot of people. They're basically empty calories,
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Speaker 3: meaning they pack a huge caloric punch with zero nutrition
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Speaker 3: and really no benefit. This makes them a major driver
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Speaker 3: of weight gain and obesity, and that's where the hormonal
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Speaker 3: trouble starts. Fat tissue isn't just sitting there. It is
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Speaker 3: harmonically active. Your fat cells produce an enzyme called aromatase.
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Speaker 3: Aromatase's job is to convert your testosterone into estrogen. So
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Speaker 3: what do you guys think happens when a guy has
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Speaker 3: an abundance of fat and what should do if he
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Speaker 3: wants to increase this distosterone.
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Speaker 4: Well, I know one thing I do they'll increase my testosterone.
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Speaker 4: I hate the gym. I like to go work out,
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Speaker 4: pump some irn, go for a run, different things like that. Exercise,
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Speaker 4: physical activity. That's an easy, one, easy way anybody can do.
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Speaker 4: I mean anything, that's something anybody can do to increase
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Speaker 4: their testosterone.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I guess we'll be like a sports aneggar. Huh.
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Speaker 2: The hot topic now obviously glp ones and weights, inflammation,
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Speaker 2: How people can be using that to help with those
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Speaker 2: battle levels and potentially testosterone levels.
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Speaker 3: Exactly that the more body fat you have, the more
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Speaker 3: aromatase you have, so it's sort of linking together. You
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Speaker 3: should go to the gym to get the body fat off,
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Speaker 3: to get the romatasee down, put on some muscle mass,
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Speaker 3: produce more testosterone. The more aromatase you have, the more
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Speaker 3: your testosterone gets pumped into that Primary sex female sex hormone,
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Speaker 3: and it's a vicious cycle. High sugar leads to more fat,
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Speaker 3: More fat leads to more romatasees, and more aromatase leads
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Speaker 3: to lower testosterone levels and higher estrogen levels. That hormonal
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Speaker 3: shift then makes it even easier to gain more fat,
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Speaker 3: and the cycle keeps spiraling down. The enhanced study even
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Speaker 3: confirmed that being overweight or abase was a powerful independent
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Speaker 3: risk factor for low testosterone.
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Speaker 2: And there's also a second insulin resistance. So when you
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Speaker 2: constantly hit your body with those high doses of sugar
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Speaker 2: from soda, pancreas is having to pump out insulin like
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Speaker 2: crazy to control those levels. Over time, your cells can
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Speaker 2: start ignoring that signal, and that insulin resistance is one
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Speaker 2: of those stepping stones to type two diabetes, and that
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Speaker 2: insulin resistance is strongly linked to lower testosterone levels in men,
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Speaker 2: And in fact, studies have shown that giving a man
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Speaker 2: a big dose of sugar basically a soda bomb as
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Speaker 2: we're talking here, can cause an immediate significant drop in
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Speaker 2: testosterone levels. So every time you chug a sugary drink,
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Speaker 2: you might be tanking your testosterone levels right then and there.
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Speaker 4: The overwhelming evidence points to sugar as the real villain here.
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Speaker 4: The massive load of high fructose corn serb or soucroth
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Speaker 4: in a typical can of coke directly fuels two of
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Speaker 4: the conditions most known to crush milk, testosterone obesity and
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Speaker 4: insulin resistance.
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Speaker 3: Now this is where someone defending the mouse study might say, okay, fine,
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Speaker 3: trigger is bad, but what about the caffeine. Couldn't that
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Speaker 3: be what boost died the testosterone and mice? And that
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Speaker 3: is a fair question, and it's probably one piece of
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Speaker 3: the puzzle that explained the strange results in those mice.
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Speaker 3: But the link between caffeine and tustosterone is also complicated.
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Speaker 3: There is some evidence that a short term, or what
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Speaker 3: we like to say acute, dose of caffeine can give
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Speaker 3: you a temporary testosterone boost. One study on athletes found
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Speaker 3: that taking caffeine before a workout bummed up the testosterone.
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Speaker 3: Since so many guys use caffeine for pre workout boost,
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Speaker 3: at what point does this little lift turn into a
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Speaker 3: disaster for your homoones because of potentially ruining sleep, stretching
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Speaker 3: your body out, creating more cortisol, which one wins in
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Speaker 3: the long game. Like a caffeine boost or just getting
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Speaker 3: that sleep that your doctor tells you you're supposed to have.
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Speaker 4: I mean, I feel like when they people were using it,
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Speaker 4: they still getting their sleep. You know, they just do
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Speaker 4: the coffeine, the caffeine instead of like the pre workouts
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Speaker 4: or something, because the pre rold girls to have more
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Speaker 4: ingredients in there, and they maybe trying to avoid that.
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Speaker 4: So you just with you know what they already know,
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Speaker 4: which is caffeine, get the quick little boost you need it.
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Speaker 4: I mean, it's best if you work out in the
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Speaker 4: morning and using caffeine, because then it could be like
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Speaker 4: your morning caffeine. If you take anyway, nice little workout,
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Speaker 4: you're sharp and focused, you know when you go to
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Speaker 4: work or the rest of your day, and then you're good. Now,
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Speaker 4: if you're working out at night, definitely try to avoid
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Speaker 4: it because it can disrupt you know, your your sleep,
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Speaker 4: your sleep cycle, and then you just never feel arrested,
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Speaker 4: which leads to more caffeine and take.
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Speaker 5: So try to avoid it in the evenings for sure.
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Speaker 3: So the answers both for you.
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Speaker 2: You can do whatever you want. Well, you know, I
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Speaker 2: just remember, you know us at Creighton study and then
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Speaker 2: Robbie's over there with his caffeine tablets at midnight.
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Speaker 5: It's true that was me not doing good.
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Speaker 2: Listen to your doctor getting your sleep there.
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Speaker 5: I was a student. I wasn't a doctor. I was
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Speaker 5: a practicing licensed clinician. Okay, I was a study didn't know.
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Speaker 2: He didn't know any better.
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Speaker 5: He didn't get to that chapter yet.
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Speaker 3: I didn't have a licen year who could hold me
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Speaker 3: account in.
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Speaker 5: Sleep's important? You can't.
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Speaker 2: You can't lift enough to make up for for not sleeping.
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Speaker 3: Definitely now. But and it's a bit big butt, not
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Speaker 3: like a big big butt, but you know it's a
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Speaker 3: big butt, a big big but In that same study,
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Speaker 3: Calvin as I kind of alluded to spiked cortisol, the
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Speaker 3: body's main stress hormone.
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Speaker 5: This is really important for building muscle and overall health.
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Speaker 5: As we your testosterone to cortisol ratio is often the
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Speaker 5: most more important than your testosterone levels alone. If testosterone
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Speaker 5: goes up a little but cortisol shoots way up, you're
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Speaker 5: actually worse off for building off muscle, for building up muscle. Now,
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Speaker 5: cortisol is catabolic, so it breaks things down, including muscle tissue. Chronically,
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Speaker 5: high cortisol can stress bad sleep or too many stimulants
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Speaker 5: actively working against your body's ability to produce testosterone.
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Speaker 2: So that would bring us back to the daily caffeine use.
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Speaker 2: While one dose might give you that temporary lift that
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Speaker 2: today was talking about, what happens when you're drinking the
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Speaker 2: caffeinated sodas every day, every morning, every afternoon. Some analysis
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Speaker 2: of the nhanes data had suggested a complex, nonlinear relationship
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Speaker 2: relationship where high chronic caffeine intake may actually be associated
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Speaker 2: with those lower testosterone levels.
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Speaker 5: Why.
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Speaker 4: A big reason is the connection between caffeine, cortisol and sleep.
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Speaker 4: Caffeine stays in your system for hours. If you're drinking
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Speaker 4: it all day, especially in the afternoon or evening, it
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Speaker 4: can wrick your sleep quality, and your body produces most
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Speaker 4: of this testosterone while you're in a deep sleep. If
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Speaker 4: your sola habit is missing with your sleep, you are
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Speaker 4: directly sabotaging your own hormone production.
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Speaker 3: So could caffeine explain the mouse study? Maybe it's possible
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Speaker 3: that for fifteen days the mascott the stimulant effect and
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Speaker 3: their simple biological system led them to a temporary testostrum boost.
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Speaker 3: But it is much more complex than the human body.
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Speaker 3: The long term picture is totally different. Any teenage temporary
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Speaker 3: boost you might get from caffeine is completely steamrolled by
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Speaker 3: the massive long term hormonal damage from sugar that comes
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Speaker 3: along with it. Focusing on caffeine and soda is like
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Speaker 3: complementing the warm glow of your house while it's on fire.
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Speaker 3: You're missing the bigger picture. The claim that drinking coke
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Speaker 3: or pepsi increases your distosterone level is based on a
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Speaker 3: single study in mice. While it's an interesting finding for scientists,
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Speaker 3: it's practically useless and dangerously misleading for human health advice.
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Speaker 3: It's directly contraindicated by a much larger and more reliable
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Speaker 3: body of evidence from human studies. That human evidence is clear.
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Speaker 3: Regularly drinking sugar sweetened sodas is strongly linked to higher
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Speaker 3: risk of distosterum level, and then this is driven by
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Speaker 3: a huge sugar content that promotes obesity and insulin resistance.
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Speaker 3: Who's the biggest killer in health? The testosterone levels in
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Speaker 3: a fleeting benefit from caffeine is wiped out by hormono
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Speaker 3: damage from sugar. So if sugar is the real villain,
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Speaker 3: is dit coke the secret weapon for testosterone?
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Speaker 5: Are we just.
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Speaker 3: Trading one more hormono mess for another, is lesser of
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Speaker 3: two eagles really a good enough reason to keep drinking it?
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Speaker 4: Yeah? Die coke is the answered. No sugar. Still get
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Speaker 4: a little bit of caffeine at bate. Okay, what's your take, Sam,
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Speaker 4: What do you think? I mean, it's always been a debate.
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Speaker 4: We're with those diet cokes, diapepsis, those artificial sweeteners. What
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Speaker 4: those are doing to your system? You know, are we
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Speaker 4: finding something that is negatively affecting something else? We're just
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Speaker 4: not measuring at the time. So you know, obviously that
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Speaker 4: stem same idea. We heard that these high sugars are
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Speaker 4: way too bad, so we got to cut them out.
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Speaker 2: And you know, people swear by that. You know, I
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Speaker 2: have no extra sugar. I'm drinking my my six pack
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Speaker 2: of diet coke every day. What could be wrong?
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Speaker 3: What could be wrong? Yeah, don't you dare take away
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Speaker 3: my diet drinks for me. Okay, it's like the only
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Speaker 3: good thing left in this world when it comes to
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Speaker 3: like mass produced foods. Okay, you leave the diet sodas alone.
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Speaker 4: Sounds like you agree, Robbie, you agree?
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Speaker 5: I agree.
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Speaker 3: I mean I'm for drinking it. Don't get rid of
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Speaker 3: my diet soda. So if sugar is the problem, our
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Speaker 3: zero sugar versions. Okay, let's get back into that, Back
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Speaker 3: into the research here. Now the research is a bit murky.
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Speaker 3: While they don't have the sugar, there's a big ongoing
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Speaker 3: debate Sam mentioned about the long term health effects of
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Speaker 3: these artificial sweeteners like aspertain. Some research suggests they might
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Speaker 3: negatively impact gut health or even disrupt hormones in other ways,
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Speaker 3: but us being human's evidence isn't clear. As it is
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Speaker 3: for sugar. It's probably best to see a diet sodas
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Speaker 3: as the lesser.
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Speaker 5: Of two beetles.
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Speaker 3: So keep drinking it, but don't think of it as
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Speaker 3: a healthy drink. Water, unsweetened tea, black coffee are always
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Speaker 3: better choices. The bottom line is this, no drinking soda
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Speaker 3: will not increase your testosterone. The real world evidence in
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Speaker 3: human shows it's far more likely to do the exact opposite.
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Speaker 3: The viral study was a classic case of media hype
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Speaker 3: blowing a small animal study way of proportion while ignoring
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Speaker 3: the human data that tells the real story. Now it's
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Speaker 3: easy to get lost in all the conflicting health headlines.
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Speaker 3: One day, food is good for you, the next is not.
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Speaker 3: Then all of a sudden, they change the food pyramid,
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Speaker 3: all because of politics. Now, the whole soda in testosterone
25:57
Speaker 3: story is a perfect example of why do you have
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Speaker 3: to be a critical thinker? You have to look past
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Speaker 3: the crazy headlines, ask where the claim is coming from,
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Speaker 3: and most importantly, ask if the evidence even applies to you.
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Speaker 3: Now that we've debunked the soda myth, if someone is
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Speaker 3: sitting there with low energy, what are the big three
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Speaker 3: non negotiable things that they should fix as a hack
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Speaker 3: to help themselves.
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Speaker 5: I'll do one.
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Speaker 4: Make sure you get enough sleep, get your seven to
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Speaker 4: eight hours sleep every night, and be great for your body,
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Speaker 4: great for your testosterone, great for your energy. I'll wake
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Speaker 4: up early, so I always need some more sleep a
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Speaker 4: little bit earlier. Sam, what advice would you give to
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Speaker 4: our listeners.
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Speaker 2: I mean we talked about sleep. We also talked about
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Speaker 2: those sugar levels. So keeping that balanced diet, right amount
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Speaker 2: of sugar. It's not zero. You should have sugar in
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Speaker 2: your diet, but it's not these six packs of your
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Speaker 2: your Coca cola that you're having throughout the Keeping that
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Speaker 2: balanced diet.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, so sleep, balance diet, try to manage your stress
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Speaker 3: if you can. You know, like you know, the world
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Speaker 3: is so busy right now. There's a lot going on,
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Speaker 3: and there are tons of reasons to be stressed out,
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Speaker 3: and it's really hard to kind of take a step
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Speaker 3: back and work on yourself and your own needs, but
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Speaker 3: manage your own stress because again that cordusol level flips everything.
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Speaker 3: So that would be my big three eating well, sleep, exercise.
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Speaker 3: I guess eating one exercise I kind of see is
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Speaker 3: a pair. But managing your big four, the big four,
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Speaker 3: Big four.
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Speaker 5: And number five.
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Speaker 2: Everyone needs fiber.
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Speaker 5: Everyone needs fiber or you're going to be stressed.
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Speaker 3: Keep that stressed down well instead of looking for a
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Speaker 3: magic fix in a soda can. The real world to
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Speaker 3: support your hormonal health is maybe unsurprisingly all these fundamentals
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Speaker 3: we talked about.
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Speaker 5: It's not flashy, but it works.
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Speaker 3: Focused on a balanced diet with whole foods, quality protein,
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Speaker 3: high fats, as Sam was mentioning, cut back and eliminate
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Speaker 3: those sugary drinks, processed junk food, Get regular exercise, especially
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Speaker 3: resistance training. Prioritize you're nine to seven hours of great
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Speaker 3: sleep every night that is not negotiable for your hormones.
28:18
Speaker 3: And finally, manage your stress to keepe that testosterone killing
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Speaker 3: cort assault in check. These are the pillars of hormonal health.
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Speaker 3: They don't make for a sexy headline, I know, but
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Speaker 3: they are the foundation for a long, healthy and vital life.
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