How To Maximize Hormones *And* Maintain Fertility (+ Are Old-School Approaches To Testosterone DANGEROUS or INEFFECTIVE?) With Dr. Cameron Sepah of Maximus Tribe.
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Ben Greenfield
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🗓️ 26 October 2024
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
In this episode with Dr. Cameron Sepah, you'll get to dive into critical topics like the alarming drop in testosterone and sperm counts, the dangers of endocrine-disrupting chemicals, and why testosterone replacement therapy (TRT) could harm fertility. You'll explore the difference between primary and secondary hypogonadism, alternative therapies like Clomid or enclomiphene that boost natural testosterone production, and the challenges of maintaining fertility during TRT. You'll also hear about the risks of high estrogen levels, the impact of testosterone on libido, the importance of personalized dosing, and cutting-edge innovations like at-home devices that measure key hormones with clinical accuracy.
Dr. Cameron Sepah is the CEO of Maximus, an online medical clinic specializing in health and hormone optimization, backed by top venture capitalists including Founders Fund, 8VC, and angel investors such as Dave Asprey of Bulletproof, Ryan Holiday of the Daily Stoic, and the executives behind The Honest Company, Coinbase, Tinder, and Shopify.
Cameron is a serial health tech entrepreneur, as a founding team member of Omada Health, a billion-dollar startup that pioneered the field of digital therapeutics. He is a licensed clinical psychologist by training, specializing in behavioral medicine, and a clinical professor of psychiatry, where he trains doctors in evidence-based health care.
Tune in to get all the insights you need to make informed decisions about optimizing your testosterone, fertility, and overall health!
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| 0:00.0 | My name is Ben Greenfield life podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | The difference between blood work of someone on TRT versus in clomophine is |
| 0:08.0 | TRT, their LH and FSH levels as we talked about, |
| 0:10.0 | going to be near zero because you're shut down, your |
| 0:12.8 | testicles are going to shrink, and you're dependent on it. If you go off of it, you're |
| 0:16.6 | going to feel pretty bad. With in clamofine, your L.H. and f-s-H levels |
| 0:20.1 | actually typically go up because it's essentially telling the body, hey, you don't have |
| 0:24.4 | estrogen produce more. |
| 0:26.1 | It actually makes your testicles bigger. |
| 0:28.2 | Ironically, the studies that show the higher dosage is it actually increases testicular volume, total motile sperm count, which is a key |
| 0:34.8 | fertility marker actually goes up, so it makes you more fertile as a man, and it generally doubles |
| 0:39.7 | testosterone. The other advantage is there's no dependency. If you just stop taking it. You'll just go back to your baseline levels. You won't be shut down like you will with TRP. |
| 0:48.0 | Fitness, nutrition, biohacking, longevity, life optimization, spirituality, and a whole lot more. |
| 0:57.0 | Welcome to the Ben Greenfield Life Show. |
| 1:00.0 | Are you ready to hack your life? Let's do this. So I've been testing my blood. I've actually been doing it every couple of months with this at-home test kit that is extremely convenient. |
| 1:20.0 | It's this company called Sci-Ox. They test my hormones, my inflammatory markers, my vitamins, my blood cells, |
| 1:26.8 | everything I want to know inside my body, but with just a few drops of blood from my fingertipsip it's called Sy Fox. S I P H O X. |
| 1:36.7 | I did a podcast with them which you can find on my website about the science that they use. |
| 1:40.9 | It's unbelievable. |
| 1:41.9 | The number of biomarkers you can get, given how little |
| 1:45.9 | Saipox actually costs, and one of my favorite things is they have this complete health dashboard. They even have a place you can |
| 1:51.3 | click on the dashboard called the biohackers view, which gives you even more in-depth on the dashboard called the BioHackers View, |
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