Casey Means
Appearances
Bongino Report Early Edition with Evita
Blasphemy: Hollywood Casts Queer Female Jesus (Ep.143)
PCOS, essentially you have an ovary, that ovary is making hormones. And when that ovary is stimulated by excess insulin, which is the hormone in the blood that helps us take blood sugar out of the blood and into the cells, insulin levels go up in the setting of metabolic dysfunction. We basically destroy our cells with our toxic food and lifestyle. The cells can no longer process sugar to energy.
Bongino Report Early Edition with Evita
Blasphemy: Hollywood Casts Queer Female Jesus (Ep.143)
So the cell rejects sugar and it stays in the bloodstream. The body compensates by making more insulin to try and drive the sugar into the cell that's putting up a block because it's broken essentially. That high insulin floats all around the body and does bad things all over the body like drives cancer growth and also stimulates the ovary to make more testosterone.
Bongino Report Early Edition with Evita
Blasphemy: Hollywood Casts Queer Female Jesus (Ep.143)
So you have women who are supposed to be making, you know, estrogen and progesterone and very specific levels throughout the hormone cycle so that we can ovulate. And instead insulin is driving the ovary to create testosterone, which totally disturbs the balance between all the sex hormones in the female body. And we don't ovulate.
Bongino Report Early Edition with Evita
Blasphemy: Hollywood Casts Queer Female Jesus (Ep.143)
So you get these cysts that form because you've got an egg trying to basically like ovulate, but instead it can't because the hormones are disrupted because of insulin, which is because of metabolic dysfunction because of our food. And, we get infertility because we're not ovulating.
Bongino Report Early Edition with Evita
Blasphemy: Hollywood Casts Queer Female Jesus (Ep.143)
And this condition is reversible in as little as 12 weeks with dietary interventions. There is peer reviewed studies to show this. If we get our blood sugar levels under control and our insulin levels under control, we restore the hormonal balance and many women, all the symptoms will disappear and they'll be able to become fertile.
Dhru Purohit Show
Struggling with Low Libido? Your Blood Sugar Could Be to Blame. Top Tips for Boosting Libido with Sex and Metabolic Experts
We wanna make sure that we're eating probiotic and prebiotic rich foods, which are gonna support our microbiome, which directly feeds into our metabolic health. We wanna be eating lots of antioxidants and micronutrients to support the metabolic machinery in the body that lets us make energy properly in our cells.
Dhru Purohit Show
Struggling with Low Libido? Your Blood Sugar Could Be to Blame. Top Tips for Boosting Libido with Sex and Metabolic Experts
And we wanna be focusing on clean organic food because we know that some of the pesticides that are covering So much of our food today are actually toxins that hurt our metabolic machinery. And they even have a new class of names for these types of chemicals called obesogens because they directly lead to obesity.
Dhru Purohit Show
Struggling with Low Libido? Your Blood Sugar Could Be to Blame. Top Tips for Boosting Libido with Sex and Metabolic Experts
So a really micronutrient, antioxidant-rich, probiotic, prebiotic-rich diet that's ideally cleanly and sustainably sourced and doesn't spike glucose. is the name of the game when it comes to having a more metabolically healthy diet. So I know that sounds pretty complex, but it's basically like eat real whole foods as much as you can.
Dhru Purohit Show
Struggling with Low Libido? Your Blood Sugar Could Be to Blame. Top Tips for Boosting Libido with Sex and Metabolic Experts
Yeah.
Dhru Purohit Show
Struggling with Low Libido? Your Blood Sugar Could Be to Blame. Top Tips for Boosting Libido with Sex and Metabolic Experts
20% of women of childbearing age who have not had a prior pregnancy are not able to conceive after one year of trying. That's a lot. That's one fifth of women. And there's evidence that this rate is going up. One study that's a global study looks at that this might be increasing by about 0.37% per year. And when you step back and think about what's really happening, it's quite shocking.
Dhru Purohit Show
Struggling with Low Libido? Your Blood Sugar Could Be to Blame. Top Tips for Boosting Libido with Sex and Metabolic Experts
what is more evolutionarily vital than our ability to reproduce? And right now, it seems that that is partially under siege by this fundamental issue we're having with our metabolism, which of course is also leading to nine of the 10 leading causes of death in the US. So it's a metabolic crisis that we're dealing with. And one of the offshoots of that is a fertility and sexual function. crisis.
Dhru Purohit Show
Struggling with Low Libido? Your Blood Sugar Could Be to Blame. Top Tips for Boosting Libido with Sex and Metabolic Experts
And unfortunately, the way the conventional medical system approaches this is very, very simplistic and very unempowering. And I think when you are dealing with issues as sensitive as this and issues where we have very poor education in our upbringing and our school, the system, unfortunately, people are very desperate to get on top of these things and we'll kind of do whatever. And so we have
Dhru Purohit Show
Struggling with Low Libido? Your Blood Sugar Could Be to Blame. Top Tips for Boosting Libido with Sex and Metabolic Experts
And it makes sense because metabolism is fundamentally how we produce energy in every cell of our body. And sexual function and fertility are incredibly complex very well-orchestrated events in the body that involve so many things. They involve neurologic factors, vascular factors, psychological factors, and hormonal factors just to get things right when you're thinking about sex or fertility.
Dhru Purohit Show
Struggling with Low Libido? Your Blood Sugar Could Be to Blame. Top Tips for Boosting Libido with Sex and Metabolic Experts
all of this push towards simplistic pharmaceutical interventions and virtually no push towards thinking about this network of diseases, this system of diseases that's happening and how fertility and sexual function fit into it. So it's really, unfortunately, kind of up to us right now to learn about these things and to take control of them in our own lives.
Dhru Purohit Show
Struggling with Low Libido? Your Blood Sugar Could Be to Blame. Top Tips for Boosting Libido with Sex and Metabolic Experts
But yeah, you know, and I think there's, it's just interesting, you know, I think sexuality, it's, it's such a complex and nuanced thing. It's not something I'll be able to sum up simply, of course, in a podcast, but I think it's, you know, aside from being evolutionarily vital for us to like propagate our species, um,
Dhru Purohit Show
Struggling with Low Libido? Your Blood Sugar Could Be to Blame. Top Tips for Boosting Libido with Sex and Metabolic Experts
it's also very much linked to, I think, drive and creativity and sort of our ability to feel like we're truly deeply engaged in sort of like the core generative aspects of our lives. And I think when you pull that away and when lifestyle factors are subtly undermining that really just sort of primal creative force within us, it's very problematic for society.
Dhru Purohit Show
Struggling with Low Libido? Your Blood Sugar Could Be to Blame. Top Tips for Boosting Libido with Sex and Metabolic Experts
And you are seeing issues with rates of desire, libido, et cetera, that I think are worth having a bigger conversation about.
Dhru Purohit Show
Struggling with Low Libido? Your Blood Sugar Could Be to Blame. Top Tips for Boosting Libido with Sex and Metabolic Experts
definitely so fascinating statistics about sperm recently so research suggests that sperm count is down about 50 over the last 40 years this should make every man's ears perk up i mean this is pretty astounding and there are several proposed reasons why this might be happening, many of which are related to things we've already talked about, but metabolism seems to be a core link.
Dhru Purohit Show
Struggling with Low Libido? Your Blood Sugar Could Be to Blame. Top Tips for Boosting Libido with Sex and Metabolic Experts
And one of the pieces of research that really gets at this was a study out of Harvard that looked at, as you go from normal weight to overweight to obesity, sperm count goes down. So if you are an obese man, you have about an 80% higher likelihood of having no sperm in your semen compared to a man of normal weight. And overweight men, it's in between there, around 40%.
Dhru Purohit Show
Struggling with Low Libido? Your Blood Sugar Could Be to Blame. Top Tips for Boosting Libido with Sex and Metabolic Experts
And so that's pretty astounding that these metabolic issues are leading to downstream physiology that's essentially stopping our body from making sperm. That's incredible to me. One of the reasons this might be is because fat tissue actually has this fascinating hormonal effect of converting testosterone to estrogen. Many people don't think of fat as an endocrine organ, but it absolutely is.
Dhru Purohit Show
Struggling with Low Libido? Your Blood Sugar Could Be to Blame. Top Tips for Boosting Libido with Sex and Metabolic Experts
As Ben Bickman often says, fat tissue acts like an ovary in men. And so we're seeing lower levels of testosterone in men as their weight goes up. And we know that weight loss can be very effective in getting testosterone levels back up. There's actually four great things that men can do very simply to get their testosterone levels in a better place.
Dhru Purohit Show
Struggling with Low Libido? Your Blood Sugar Could Be to Blame. Top Tips for Boosting Libido with Sex and Metabolic Experts
Aerobic exercise, resistance training, stress management, sleep, and exercise. slightly more difficult one is weight loss but you do those things testosterone will generally go up and so this is a big part of why i think we're seeing decline in in sperm count sperm quality as well some of this research that i'm citing the conclusions of the paper is actually that
Dhru Purohit Show
Struggling with Low Libido? Your Blood Sugar Could Be to Blame. Top Tips for Boosting Libido with Sex and Metabolic Experts
Sperm count and quality should be considered a barometer for overall health of the man. And this, of course, makes sense. This is a type of cell that is being produced constitutively week after week throughout a man's entire lifetime. So if there's problems with foundational health, you're going to see problems in this cell type. So that's definitely very real.
Dhru Purohit Show
Struggling with Low Libido? Your Blood Sugar Could Be to Blame. Top Tips for Boosting Libido with Sex and Metabolic Experts
In terms of egg quality, that's an area that I don't actually know if there's been as much research about, like how insulin resistance and foundational health affects the quality of the egg. The eggs and sperm are a bit different in the sense that the eggs are all
Dhru Purohit Show
Struggling with Low Libido? Your Blood Sugar Could Be to Blame. Top Tips for Boosting Libido with Sex and Metabolic Experts
All of those elements of the body, all of those cell types that are involved, they all require the cells to make energy properly, which is metabolism. As you know, we are dealing with a metabolic disease epidemic in this country. You've talked about it so many times on your podcast, but 88% of American adults are metabolically dysfunctional. This is unbelievable.
Dhru Purohit Show
Struggling with Low Libido? Your Blood Sugar Could Be to Blame. Top Tips for Boosting Libido with Sex and Metabolic Experts
in the woman's body when she's born in her ovaries and we of course release them each month during our reproductive age whereas sperm is just being created you know all the time throughout a man's lifetime and so so that's one i don't know exactly i have to assume if the the body in which these eggs are living is being exposed to more oxidative stress um you know
Dhru Purohit Show
Struggling with Low Libido? Your Blood Sugar Could Be to Blame. Top Tips for Boosting Libido with Sex and Metabolic Experts
dysfunctional levels or unbalanced levels of sex hormones, higher inflammation, that it's going to have an impact. But one thing that we do know is that in pregnancy, even if a woman is able to get pregnant, people with metabolic dysfunction, prediabetes, type 2 diabetes, are have higher rates of miscarriage.
Dhru Purohit Show
Struggling with Low Libido? Your Blood Sugar Could Be to Blame. Top Tips for Boosting Libido with Sex and Metabolic Experts
And so we know that blood sugar and insulin resistance both have an impact on placental function. And so even if we get through all the steps required to actually have proper ovulation, sperm production, fertilization, implantation, then we get to actual caring of the baby. And
Dhru Purohit Show
Struggling with Low Libido? Your Blood Sugar Could Be to Blame. Top Tips for Boosting Libido with Sex and Metabolic Experts
Even at that level, having issues with blood sugar and insulin resistance can create a higher risk environment for the placenta and for carrying the baby to term.
Dhru Purohit Show
Struggling with Low Libido? Your Blood Sugar Could Be to Blame. Top Tips for Boosting Libido with Sex and Metabolic Experts
Yeah, so hormones are such a complex topic, but one thing that I think is key to understand is that there's this sequence in the body called the HPG axis, hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis. So you can think sort of like brain down to sex organs. And this is a cascade of events that happens that ultimately stimulates us to have the right balance of sex hormones.
Dhru Purohit Show
Struggling with Low Libido? Your Blood Sugar Could Be to Blame. Top Tips for Boosting Libido with Sex and Metabolic Experts
And insulin resistance and metabolic dysfunction can hurt the HPG axis at basically every level. If we have insulin resistance in the brain where the hypothalamus is, it's going to cause problems for this central top level aspect of this coordination that can ultimately result in issues with testosterone and estradiol production.
Dhru Purohit Show
Struggling with Low Libido? Your Blood Sugar Could Be to Blame. Top Tips for Boosting Libido with Sex and Metabolic Experts
And so HPG axis basically, if there's issues with metabolism, you're going to have issues with that.
Dhru Purohit Show
Struggling with Low Libido? Your Blood Sugar Could Be to Blame. Top Tips for Boosting Libido with Sex and Metabolic Experts
you know more moving into sort of the specific hormones themselves testosterone like i mentioned is we're having issues with metabol with uh testosterone given the fact that many men are overweight or obese have excess fat tissue and are therefore going to be converting their testosterone to estrogen and disrupting that very delicate balance of hormones that's required for sexual function
Dhru Purohit Show
Struggling with Low Libido? Your Blood Sugar Could Be to Blame. Top Tips for Boosting Libido with Sex and Metabolic Experts
and optimal fertility and sperm production. So that's really the key things I think to know about the hormone aspect is that insulin resistance is going to affect the brain, it's going to affect testosterone production and conversion to estrogen, and it's going to also impact our ovaries. Our ovaries are what make a lot of our female sex hormones.
Dhru Purohit Show
Struggling with Low Libido? Your Blood Sugar Could Be to Blame. Top Tips for Boosting Libido with Sex and Metabolic Experts
One thing that's quite interesting is that when women have higher levels of insulin in the setting of insulin resistance, that insulin actually can stimulate the ovaries to make more testosterone. And so this is actually the root of... the leading cause of infertility in the US for women, which is called polycystic ovarian syndrome.
Dhru Purohit Show
Struggling with Low Libido? Your Blood Sugar Could Be to Blame. Top Tips for Boosting Libido with Sex and Metabolic Experts
This means that 88% of American bodies are not producing energy properly in their cells. And we cannot have any health without having our cells having their basic functions met with energy. And so this really is paralleling issues that we're seeing with sexual dysfunction in this country, which are actually becoming quite rampant. The statistics are harrowing and sobering.
Dhru Purohit Show
Struggling with Low Libido? Your Blood Sugar Could Be to Blame. Top Tips for Boosting Libido with Sex and Metabolic Experts
And essentially, when insulin levels are high in the setting of insulin resistance, the theca cells of the ovary, which have insulin receptors, are stimulated in excess, and they produce more male hormones or androgens like testosterone. And when a woman has too much testosterone circulating in her body, that's going to cause things like menstrual regularity, potentially
Dhru Purohit Show
Struggling with Low Libido? Your Blood Sugar Could Be to Blame. Top Tips for Boosting Libido with Sex and Metabolic Experts
lack of ovulation, excess hair growth, acne or hirsutism, and issues with excess weight storage. And so these are all symptoms that we see in polycystic ovarian syndrome, which are related to the fact that high insulin levels can drive the ovaries to make excess testosterone. And in women throw off that, again, delicate balance between testosterone and estrogen. So
Dhru Purohit Show
Struggling with Low Libido? Your Blood Sugar Could Be to Blame. Top Tips for Boosting Libido with Sex and Metabolic Experts
That's kind of the landscape of hormones. And I think long story short, we really want to keep our insulin levels down because it's going to protect our ovaries and women from producing too much testosterone. In men, of course, high insulin levels are going to be associated with excess fat storage. And that's going to be a problem for our testosterone and estrogen levels in men.
Dhru Purohit Show
Struggling with Low Libido? Your Blood Sugar Could Be to Blame. Top Tips for Boosting Libido with Sex and Metabolic Experts
So if you look at women, about 40% of all women have issues with sexual dysfunction, and this means arousal or interest or orgasm. When you get to menopausal age, that number goes up to 85%. Wow. The vast majority of women having issues with sexual function and sexual pleasure. which is an incredibly important part of life and well-being. So those numbers are way too high, in my opinion.
Dhru Purohit Show
Struggling with Low Libido? Your Blood Sugar Could Be to Blame. Top Tips for Boosting Libido with Sex and Metabolic Experts
When you look at men, you see that about 50% of men are dealing with issues with sexual function, and this largely manifests in erectile dysfunction. And even under the age of 40, a quarter of men are dealing with erectile dysfunction. this number should probably be closer to zero.
Dhru Purohit Show
Struggling with Low Libido? Your Blood Sugar Could Be to Blame. Top Tips for Boosting Libido with Sex and Metabolic Experts
And again, when we think about erectile dysfunction, we're thinking about a complex orchestra of physiologic events, all of which require good metabolism to work. So that's kind of the landscape of what we're talking about when we need to think about the relationship between metabolic health and sexual function. And happy to dive into all of that more.
Dhru Purohit Show
Struggling with Low Libido? Your Blood Sugar Could Be to Blame. Top Tips for Boosting Libido with Sex and Metabolic Experts
That's exactly right. And I really think we need to reorient to realize that our sexual function and even something like our libido and our interest in sex is actually a barometer for our underlying fundamental health. I mean, that is such a key thing that we need to focus on. If you're having issues in those domain, which as we just talked about with those statistics,
Dhru Purohit Show
Struggling with Low Libido? Your Blood Sugar Could Be to Blame. Top Tips for Boosting Libido with Sex and Metabolic Experts
many or most Americans are, it may be a big red warning sign. There are things happening under the hood in terms of our metabolic health and metabolic dysfunction that will lead to very serious issues down the road, like all the diseases we understand are related to metabolic dysfunction. And we know this by looking at certain statistics like
Dhru Purohit Show
Struggling with Low Libido? Your Blood Sugar Could Be to Blame. Top Tips for Boosting Libido with Sex and Metabolic Experts
In men with erectile dysfunction, they have a 1.5 to 2.6 times higher chance of developing cardiovascular disease. There are these direct epidemiologic links between this non-lethal pain point in our life and the risk of future metabolic issues. Because when we look from that root cause perspective of what is the actual physiology that's going wrong,
Dhru Purohit Show
Struggling with Low Libido? Your Blood Sugar Could Be to Blame. Top Tips for Boosting Libido with Sex and Metabolic Experts
when we have some of these issues, we see that there are clear links between these diseases. And I think you're absolutely right. I mean, metabolic health is sexy. And I think the reason it's sexy to me and endlessly fascinating is that, as we've talked about on other podcasts, metabolic health is this core link that's connecting so many of the diseases and symptoms that we're facing to
Dhru Purohit Show
Struggling with Low Libido? Your Blood Sugar Could Be to Blame. Top Tips for Boosting Libido with Sex and Metabolic Experts
today in the American Western industrialized world. These metabolic associated diseases and symptoms are making up 90% of our $4 trillion healthcare costs. And the beauty is, and why it's sexy is because we can do something about it.
Dhru Purohit Show
Struggling with Low Libido? Your Blood Sugar Could Be to Blame. Top Tips for Boosting Libido with Sex and Metabolic Experts
This is something where we can lean into dietary and lifestyle behaviors in our own lives to actually have a positive impact on these factors and have multifarious benefits in terms of our health, and things like our sexual function and pleasure and interest. So it's exciting.
Dhru Purohit Show
Struggling with Low Libido? Your Blood Sugar Could Be to Blame. Top Tips for Boosting Libido with Sex and Metabolic Experts
Yeah, so to answer your first question, which is how are you conventionally trained to think about these things, I can sum it up in about one sentence. What are your symptoms? Oh, I have low sex drive and I have trouble having an erection. cool, here's some Viagra. It's symptom and then diagnosis and then medication.
Dhru Purohit Show
Struggling with Low Libido? Your Blood Sugar Could Be to Blame. Top Tips for Boosting Libido with Sex and Metabolic Experts
It's just so algorithmic and it's so unfortunate because when you give that medication, something like Viagra or Cialis or whatever it is, you are missing an incredible opportunity to help this person understand their fundamental health so much better and make the choices that are ultimately going to positively impact that specific issue, but so many other areas of their life.
Dhru Purohit Show
Struggling with Low Libido? Your Blood Sugar Could Be to Blame. Top Tips for Boosting Libido with Sex and Metabolic Experts
And that leads into the question of what's really going on here with some of the physiology, including the psychological component. So there are really three main ways that metabolic health and sexual function are linked. The first is blood flow, the second is hormones, and the third is psychology and mood. So when we think about blood flow, this gets at the Viagra conversation.
Dhru Purohit Show
Struggling with Low Libido? Your Blood Sugar Could Be to Blame. Top Tips for Boosting Libido with Sex and Metabolic Experts
So what does Viagra do? It allows you to produce more of a chemical in the blood called nitric oxide, which is a vasodilator. It allows blood vessels to dilate. And when you do that, you can get engorgement of erectile tissues, and that's part of arousal and sexual function.
Dhru Purohit Show
Struggling with Low Libido? Your Blood Sugar Could Be to Blame. Top Tips for Boosting Libido with Sex and Metabolic Experts
Interestingly, in both men and women, really for any sexual function, you need dilation of blood flows and blood flow to go to the erectile tissue. In the women, this is going to be all the areas of the clitoris and around the clitoris. And in men, of course, it's going to be the penis.
Dhru Purohit Show
Struggling with Low Libido? Your Blood Sugar Could Be to Blame. Top Tips for Boosting Libido with Sex and Metabolic Experts
Dr. Sarah Gottfried, who's written extensively on hormones and sexual function, she says that erectile dysfunction in a man under 40 is atherosclerosis of the penile artery until proven otherwise. It is blockage of this artery to the penis unless proven otherwise. And so we really have to focus on blood flow. And of course, metabolic health is one of the biggest determining factors in how our
Dhru Purohit Show
Struggling with Low Libido? Your Blood Sugar Could Be to Blame. Top Tips for Boosting Libido with Sex and Metabolic Experts
Insulin resistance actually affects all aspects of nitric oxide production. Insulin resistance in the brain can block some of the central factors and central mechanisms that set off the cascade of events that leads to nitric oxide stimulation. This may be because of the pro-inflammatory cytokines that are upregulated in the brain in the setting of insulin resistance.
Dhru Purohit Show
Struggling with Low Libido? Your Blood Sugar Could Be to Blame. Top Tips for Boosting Libido with Sex and Metabolic Experts
It's not totally clear what the reason is, but we know that with insulin resistance, it affects the central aspects that ultimately set off the cascade of releasing this chemical, nitric oxide, that dilates blood vessels. So that's a problem.
Dhru Purohit Show
Struggling with Low Libido? Your Blood Sugar Could Be to Blame. Top Tips for Boosting Libido with Sex and Metabolic Experts
It's also a problem not just for the engorgement of erectile tissues in men and women, but also for things like lubrication and vaginal wall dilation and relaxation. And so there's so many aspects of this whole process that are ultimately related to nitric oxide and blood flow. But bottom line, if you want good sexual function, performance, and pleasure, you need blood flow to these organs.
Dhru Purohit Show
Struggling with Low Libido? Your Blood Sugar Could Be to Blame. Top Tips for Boosting Libido with Sex and Metabolic Experts
And that is very much dictated by metabolic health and nitric oxide.
Dhru Purohit Show
Struggling with Low Libido? Your Blood Sugar Could Be to Blame. Top Tips for Boosting Libido with Sex and Metabolic Experts
Yeah.
Dhru Purohit Show
Struggling with Low Libido? Your Blood Sugar Could Be to Blame. Top Tips for Boosting Libido with Sex and Metabolic Experts
so the big lifestyle factors that we think about is really anything that causes blood sugar spikes and anything that leads to insulin resistance so there's a lot of different things that contribute to insulin resistance in the body but of course a key one is going to be are we eating diets that are spiking our glucose over and over and over throughout the day and causing this glycemic variability this roller coaster of ups and downs swings in glucose one of the reasons that's problematic is that not only does it contribute to insulin resistance
Dhru Purohit Show
Struggling with Low Libido? Your Blood Sugar Could Be to Blame. Top Tips for Boosting Libido with Sex and Metabolic Experts
and makes the body essentially numb to this insulin signal, but it also induces oxidative stress. So the production of advanced glycation end products and excess reactive oxygen species. So these are metabolic byproducts that can cause damage to our cells and bodies. And what we know that reactive oxygen species and an excess of them being oxidative stress can do
Dhru Purohit Show
Struggling with Low Libido? Your Blood Sugar Could Be to Blame. Top Tips for Boosting Libido with Sex and Metabolic Experts
is lead to narrowing of blood vessels. It can cause thickening of the capillary and arterial walls and cause that narrowing and constriction. Another thing that happens when you have those big blood sugar spikes over and over, and ultimately when this leads towards things like prediabetes and diabetes, is it affects the nerves that actually impact the elasticity and dilation of arteries.
Dhru Purohit Show
Struggling with Low Libido? Your Blood Sugar Could Be to Blame. Top Tips for Boosting Libido with Sex and Metabolic Experts
And then, of course, also the nerves of things like the penis and clitoris and whatnot. So it's multifactorial, it's nitric oxide, it's reactive oxygen species, it's impact on nerves, but one of the key things you can do is keep the blood sugar down.
Dhru Purohit Show
Struggling with Low Libido? Your Blood Sugar Could Be to Blame. Top Tips for Boosting Libido with Sex and Metabolic Experts
This is a fascinating link that I've been discovering as I've dived deep into the metabolic health world. And what we've really come to realize is that if you care about sexual function, fertility, and even sexual pleasure, then you really need to be thinking about metabolic health and metabolic optimization. The link now is extremely clear and we don't really talk about it.
Dhru Purohit Show
Struggling with Low Libido? Your Blood Sugar Could Be to Blame. Top Tips for Boosting Libido with Sex and Metabolic Experts
So eating in a way that allows your blood sugar to be more balanced, which we've talked about on many of our podcasts together, things like eating a whole foods, unrefined diet,
Dhru Purohit Show
Struggling with Low Libido? Your Blood Sugar Could Be to Blame. Top Tips for Boosting Libido with Sex and Metabolic Experts
where you're really avoiding the refined sugars, refined carbohydrates, making sure that you're pairing your carbohydrate sources with fat, protein, and fiber, not just eating naked carbohydrates that are gonna get into the bloodstream quickly and spike the glucose. That's all really important. But there are several other factors, of course, for eating a metabolically healthy diet as well.
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As a physician, really at the top of my game, I graduated from Stanford Medical School. I went into a surgical residency. I'm looking at these stats and thinking, what is going on in American healthcare that is causing astronomical increases in chronic diseases that we know are tied to our diet, our environment, our lifestyle, and no one is talking about it.
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So that got me to really step back and reevaluate how I wanted to interact with the healthcare system. And what I realized is that while there's absolutely a place for surgeons when it comes to acute issues, we did not need one more head and neck surgeon drilling into sinuses and draining pus from ears.
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I really needed to go out and actually address the bigger issue that is just plaguing Americans across the lifespan today, which is chronic diseases tied to food that are largely preventable and reversible and are not being talked about by the healthcare system.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jay’s Must-Listens: 5 Nutrition Experts on the Foods to Eat (and Avoid) to Improve Digestion and Stop Bloating (Ft. Dr. Casey Means & The Glucose Goddess)
And so I think it's just really important for everyone to find the resources like the book that explains it in clear detail. And you can sit down with the book and your lab tests and understand for yourself where you stand.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jay’s Must-Listens: 5 Nutrition Experts on the Foods to Eat (and Avoid) to Improve Digestion and Stop Bloating (Ft. Dr. Casey Means & The Glucose Goddess)
feeling like i had to do this quick and fast forever you talk about eating slowly which i think sounds like the easiest simplest but underestimated habit so could you walk us through that it's incredible this is also my biggest challenge it's so hard especially as a surgeon like i just would wolf food down and research strongly shows that the people who eat the slowest
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jay’s Must-Listens: 5 Nutrition Experts on the Foods to Eat (and Avoid) to Improve Digestion and Stop Bloating (Ft. Dr. Casey Means & The Glucose Goddess)
have a four times less likelihood of developing metabolic syndrome than people who eat the fastest. So literally this has nothing to do with what you're eating. It's how you're eating. So this should be very empowering for people. Cause it's like, even if you don't wanna change the actual food, change the speed at which you're eating. And that does change everything.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jay’s Must-Listens: 5 Nutrition Experts on the Foods to Eat (and Avoid) to Improve Digestion and Stop Bloating (Ft. Dr. Casey Means & The Glucose Goddess)
The average American family is eating fewer than three meals per week at a table with the family. Like, this has become so normal now that we don't eat with other people, we eat in our cars, we eat while we're walking, we eat on the go. And I think just the key message here is that the more you can invest in sitting down at a table and eating slowly and mindfully,
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jay’s Must-Listens: 5 Nutrition Experts on the Foods to Eat (and Avoid) to Improve Digestion and Stop Bloating (Ft. Dr. Casey Means & The Glucose Goddess)
it's literally going to have a profound impact on your core metabolic health.
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7% body fat?
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Love them.
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Yeah, that's such a great question. And we can't even talk about that, Jay, without talking about number four on the list, which was vegetables. All right. And I'll tell you why. So the fourth thing, which is as important as protein, is getting enough vegetables in your diet on a daily basis. So do you know how much that is, by chance? I don't.
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Right, and so not a lot of people really know what's the right amount. And really, the amount of vegetables you eat has a lot to do with the amount of fiber intake you need, which 90% of America doesn't get enough fiber, and fiber is a critical ingredient of our diet. Secondly, that's where most of our micronutrients and phytonutrients are, is in those vegetables.
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Thirdly, they just keep you full and satiated all the time as well. So getting enough vegetables in your diet is extremely important. The number that I've seen in a lot of fitness and nutrition gurus talk about is, it's a big number. It's like 800 grams of vegetables, which is about a quart of vegetables, right? So once again, get your scale and measure this out and see what it is.
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It's not a small amount. It's like two full salads a day, but that's kind of what we need to work up to. So if you're doing that, the need for supplementation is minimal to none. Actually, I'm not a big supplement pusher. I'd much rather people get it in your diet.
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The reality of the situation is, however, it's really hard to get that much protein and that much vegetable product into your diet, right? And of course, we can't talk about vegetables without talking about making sure you're buying organic, you know, you're buying as local as possible.
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And if you can't go to ewg.org, Environmental Working Group's website, they'll give you a list of what are the most toxic vegetables and the least toxic out there right now. So look at that website and it'll give you the list. So if you're not getting enough vegetable intake into your diet, the next step is to add some supplementation to that.
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The most common supplements I recommend for people are vitamin D. We don't get enough sunlight to produce it. We're not getting enough in our diet. So most people do need some vitamin D. It needs to be dialed in based on a blood test. So you do a blood test. I like the vitamin D level to be around 50 to 80. And the vitamin D form that I like people to take is vitamin D3K2.
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The K2 is also another vitamin added in. It prevents overabsorption of calcium with the vitamin D and deposition of calcium in your blood vessels. So vitamin D3K2, then fish oil supplement as well. For the vegetarians and vegans out there, there's some great non-fish sources of fish oil as well. So I would do that as well. Magnesium is something that we're all very deficient in.
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The first thing I want to say is that the system, again, benefits off you thinking it's really complicated. It is not that complicated. Everything I learned about how to interpret lab testing, I learned after medical school. I learned it doing my own research. And I think that every American adult is totally capable of understanding their basic biomarkers, and in fact, we must.
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So I would do magnesium supplement. as well. And then creatine, believe it or not, it's amino acid that has a lot of research behind it. Do you do creatine?
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Five to eight milligrams every morning. Just put a scoop in your coffee and mixes in with anything. I think that's another really interesting, good one. And then I kind of then, you know, kind of do it based on what I ate the day before, right? So if I got a couple of good salads in, fine. I don't need to do anything else.
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If I didn't, I'll take a packet of AG1, which is like a phytonutrient powder, which I really like, and or a multivitamin. Sometimes as well, I'll do that too. And then protein powders are pretty much always a staple for me as well. That's the other supplement that I use.
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Yeah, putting that onto other stuff, putting that into a shake, you know, shakes are very convenient. There's a really good protein powder I like called Supergut. It's actually a resistant starch and a protein powder and fiber all in one like bag. And so Supergut is a fantastic like rescue product.
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I have like if I've been on a plane for eight hours or something, you know, and I just come home and just take that and I get my nutrition in. And that's pretty much it. You know, there's other things you can do. Like if you're having trouble sleeping, there's ashwagandha, there's glycine. If you're having trouble with stress, ashwagandha is another good one for that.
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But then I'm really selective about which ones to use.
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You bring up an extremely good point. A couple points I want to make here. One is you have to become the CEO of your own health. And what I mean by that is a CEO manages a business by looking at numbers on a daily basis, right? Most people manage their health based on a feeling that they have, symptoms that they have. They're not looking at numbers.
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So becoming the CEO of your own health means knowing what are the key KPIs of your health. There's only about 10 of them. Skeletal muscle mass being one of them, body fat percentage being another, vitamin D level being another. You got to keep that dialed in, right? Because the other point I want to make with you is that when your vitamin D level is low, like at this age,
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and you don't take care of it for 20 to 30 years, that's when the lack of vitamin D leads to the higher risk of Alzheimer's, leads to the higher risk of heart attack, leads to the higher risk of hormone problems. It all started 20 to 30 years before when you barely felt it. You see what I mean?
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So looking at those numbers 20 to 30 years ahead of becoming sick is the key to becoming CEO of your own health and then making all those diseases a non-issue, making all the things that people die of a non-issue.
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And so what I would say is start simple and start free. Every year, if you go to the doctor, they're gonna order a very basic set of tests that usually involves a cholesterol panel and a fasting glucose test. They're gonna take your blood pressure as well. So- A lot of people might be asking, how do I figure out if I have good energy or bad energy? And it's very simple.
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You start with five essentially free biomarkers, fasting glucose, triglycerides, HDL cholesterol, waist circumference, and blood pressure. They generally come standard on a physical.
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And if you have a fasting glucose less than 100 milligrams per deciliter, an HDL cholesterol above 40 for men or 50 for women, triglycerides less than 150 milligrams per deciliter, a blood pressure less than 130 over 85, and a waist circumference less than 35 for women or 40 for men, and you're not on medication... you, by our standard criteria, fit the category of essentially having good energy.
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That is essentially saying you are metabolically healthy. Shockingly, people who meet all five of those criteria not on medication currently comprise less than 6.8% of American adults. 93.2% of American adults, based on the most recent research, have at least one of those metabolic biomarkers off or not in the optimal range. So that's just step one is just know where you stand.
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And you can literally like log into your electronic health record right now and get a tape measure for your waist and figure out those things. And I think a simple way, I'll just simply say kind of what those tests mean. So fasting glucose, like I mentioned, if that's rising in the blood, it's a symbol that deep inside your cells, the mitochondria are overwhelmed.
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The mitochondria are overwhelmed from all the lifestyle things we talked about that are under our control, and they are saying we cannot process any more of this into energy, therefore we are blocking it from coming into the cell, therefore it rises in the bloodstream. That's why fasting glucose matters. It is a sign that deep inside the belly of your cell
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The cell is overwhelmed and is blocking the entry. So it's rising in the blood. Triglycerides are totally related to that because when that glucose is high and has nowhere to go and isn't being converted in that miraculous cosmic process to human energy, it converts to fat. So it can be stored because the body does not want the blood sugar to be super high.
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High blood sugar is a problem in lots of ways. It sticks to things and causes dysfunction. It causes inflammation. So the body converts it to fat and stores it in within cells or in fat cells. So that's what triglyceride means. Triglycerides is basically saying there is, again, damage within the cell. The cell is overburdened and we are becoming metabolically dysfunctional.
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So we have to print fat to take care of this excess that we can't process. HDL is a helpful part of the cholesterol family, high density lipoprotein cholesterol. It's a type of cholesterol lipoprotein, so a molecule that floats around in the blood that actually takes cholesterol from the arteries back to the liver to be processed and excreted.
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So it's, it's a way of taking cholesterol from where it could be causing problems in the blood vessels and putting it back to the liver.
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And unfortunately when the liver becomes dysfunctional because of the way we're living today and becomes filled with fat, do the other, do the, do what I just spoke about with triglycerides, this process of creating the right amount of HDL gets dysfunctional and we start to see HDL decline and that's a problem. So HDL is quote unquote good cholesterol. And when it's
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that basically means that we can't pull the damaging cholesterol from the blood vessels back to the liver. So simply put, that's a lot of what you need to know about metabolic biomarkers. There are so, so, so many more. And then waist circumference, that one's kind of interesting because... it's really a proxy metric waist circumference for how much fat is around your internal organs.
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This is a type of fat that we're hearing about more and more called visceral fat. There's three types of fat, subcutaneous fat, which is the fat you can see. It's the fat that, you know, we kind of try to get rid of because we don't look as good in a bathing suit. It's actually not the fat that's gonna kill us. You know, this fat, it's not gonna kill us.
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Then there's visceral fat, which is the fat that is around our organs that makes the organs dysfunctional. And then there's intracellular fat, which is literally fat that's built up inside the cell that causes massive dysfunction. Visceral fat and intracellular fat are the two types of fat that are going to shorten your life.
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And those are both driven by insulin resistance, that process that we talked about that is fundamentally rooted in mitochondrial dysfunction. So the waist circumference is just a way of basically telling you how much fat is around my organs and therefore how insulin resistant might I be. And then the last one is the fifth one that I spoke about, which is blood pressure.
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And blood pressure, again, it roots right back to glucose and insulin and metabolism. As our insulin levels in the body rise and they rise, again, just let's make it really simple. The cell, the mitochondria is broken.
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it's not working properly it can't process the glucose it creates insulin resistance because insulin resistance because insulin is the hormone that's secreted to help glucose get into the cell but if there's an insulin block essentially the insulin can't do that job and glucose rises in the blood but this the the body's like oh no the glucose is rising we need to actually secrete more insulin to drive glucose into the cell
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which of course adds more burden to the mitochondria, so insulin levels rise. Well, when insulin levels rise as a compensatory mechanism for this mitochondrial dysfunction and the rising glucose levels, another impact it has is to block nitric oxide production and nitric oxide is the chemical in the blood that dilates our blood vessels and keeps our blood pressure under control.
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So hopefully it's a little complex, but those five things all link back to the exact same thing, which is mitochondrial dysfunction, which is caused by the lifestyle pillars we talked about. Just to summarize, those five simple tests that usually come on every annual physical are the best place to start.
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Understand where you stand on those compared to the ranges I mentioned, and that will give you a sense of where you are. And then it's really implementing the basic dietary and lifestyle strategies to give your body what it needs so we can free up the strain on the mitochondria and bring those things down.
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They will all start coming back in a normal range as you free up the mitochondria to do better work. which we do through our daily choices. Just quickly speaking to function health, that is like the next level. And that is, if it's something that's accessible to you, I recommend every single person in the world do this if they can.
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Because it's over a hundred biomarkers, like you said, for less than $500. less than the copay that you would pay at the doctor's office for like 10 labs. And what that will do is actually give you a hyper granular picture of what's going on inside your body and your metabolism. And I mentioned that there are three hallmarks of bad energy.
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There's chronic inflammation, there's oxidative stress, and there's mitochondrial dysfunction. And the beauty of the function health tests is that they actually have tests that will tell you about each of those. So you can really know what's going on and beautiful functional medicine interpretations that actually help you understand what they mean.
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But I think something that's, again, hopefully empowering and not too scary is that at the best hospitals and medical schools in America, like Stanford, where I went to medical school, Doctors are not learning how to interpret lab tests in a way that will help you be empowered to live a healthier life.
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We are only learning a very algorithmic way of looking at lab markers in isolation in order to prescribe medications. If LDL is high, prescribe a statin. If glucose is high, prescribe metformin. and so on and so forth. And what's really interesting is that for the biomarkers that we do not have a good drug for, we ignore them.
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Like triglycerides, you rarely hear about triglycerides, even though they're more associated with heart disease than LDL. We only hear about LDL because we have a medication for it. If uric acid is high, here's allopurinol. So we focus on the biomarkers that have a drug for them. And what they don't learn is how to look at the labs
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in concert with each other to read the tea leaves of what the labs are saying together to tell you about your core physiology. So what I just shared with you about fasting glucose, triglycerides, HDL, blood pressure and waist circumference is frankly, more than what we even learn in medical school of how they all relate back to metabolic dysfunction.
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What I realize is that when you go to the science with a root cause perspective, you go back to PubMed with a slightly different perspective, not how do I treat these diseases once they emerge, but why are they happening? You see a very obvious blaring answer, which is why we had to write a book about it, which is that it's all caused by metabolic dysfunction.
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A term that I never learned in medical school. I learned about metabolic syndrome and the different individual diseases that make it up. But there is a problem. There is a fundamental breaking of our core cellular biology that is caused by our diet and the world we're living in, the modern world we're living in today.
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that is crushing the very way that the human body and our human cells can transmit food energy to life energy, to cellular energy. And so our bodies are essentially, I mean, fundamentally because metabolic health is how we make energy in the body,
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the way that our environment is now synergistic to storing our metabolic health, and the science is very clear about this, it's basically like all of us are a little bit dead while we're alive. That's what metabolic dysfunction is. It's less energy in the body. We're underpowered. And that's very dark.
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Yeah, I bet that one vaccine probably isn't causing autism. But what about the 20 that they're getting before 18 months? We don't look at it in synergistic. And so that's a big problem. And this is where the cult of the science, and I say the science specifically because science is beautiful, using the scientific method and using that way of inquiry into the natural world is a beautiful art.
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But weaponizing papers that are often bought for or corrupted. And the leaders of some of our key medical journals have actually even said that 50% of scientific research that published ends up being wrong. So it's bought for, corrupted, or wrong. We rely on this.
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And one interesting trend that we're seeing in our world is that if we do choose to put dots together or use our intuition, our God-given intuition anything other than this particular way of examining things, you are dangerous.