Testosterone After 40: Stop Taking Boosters, Do This Instead

Added: 2026-05-31

[00:00:00]So, after the age of 40, most men start chasing testosterone boosters, things like TRT or whatever you shiny object is trending in the industry. And today, I really want to dive deep into how to properly optimize your testosterone levels fundamentally, so you have freedom with yourself when it comes to your hormones, and you don't have to chase these shiny objects, and you don't have a life sentence with TRT or whatever else it is.

[00:00:31]So, in this video, I'll show you why forcing testosterone higher usually fails, and what actually restores masculine energy naturally.

[00:00:41]If you want personalized one-on-one help rebuilding your metabolism, hormones, energy, and performance, you can book a free consultation with the first thing down below, and I can have a conversation with you. With that being said, let's get into the video. So, testosterone after 40, stop taking testosterone boosters, do this instead.

[00:01:05]So, this is going to be an in-depth training, whether you're over 40, maybe under 40, and you have low testosterone levels, but I'm going to deep dive into why it's happening, and the 20/80 approach, the 20% that will give you 80% of the results when it comes to testosterone optimization naturally.

[00:01:27]So, a Pete inspired view of male hormones starts with one principle.

[00:01:32]Testosterone is not a substance you force up. It's an expression of metabolic health.

[00:01:39]Right? So, most testosterone boosters tries to stimulate hormone output while ignoring the actual energy state of the organism.

[00:01:48]So, these testosterone boosters or these tactics just focus on the surface level.

[00:01:53]Like, on the surface level, you may look like you have high testosterone, but what's happening fundamentally?

[00:02:01]If thyroid function is low, it doesn't matter how high your testosterone is.

[00:02:06]I've had clients with over 1,000 ng/dL naturally, which is extremely high, but still having testosterone issues because thyroid function is low.

[00:02:16]Stress hormones are high, sleep is poor, digestion is inflamed, and blood sugar is unstable.

[00:02:23]The body will often convert testosterone into estrogen, especially when you're over 40.

[00:02:30]When you're 20, 30, 30s, less so, but in the 40s, you have a lot of estrogen accumulation. The testosterone that you inject or you do these harsh tactics to boost testosterone will get aromatized.

[00:02:44]Or inflammatory metabolites instead of using it constructively.

[00:02:49]Ray Peat repeatedly emphasized that the male hormone system is downstream from energy production, liver function, carbon dioxide retention, and protection from chronic stress chemistry, right?

[00:03:04]So, part one, why testosterone falls after 40.

[00:03:10]So, the mainstream mistake, the usual explanation is aging lowers testosterone, which is true, right?

[00:03:19]But, 100, 200, 300 years ago, guys wouldn't have low T in their 40s, right?

[00:03:27]You look at it from a biblical perspective and things like that. But nowadays, guys in their 20s already have low testosterone. Why is that happening?

[00:03:35]You see this in studies, men in rural areas aged 70 have the same testosterone levels as 17-year-olds, showcasing it's not aging, but it's lifestyle choices.

[00:03:48]And they you get pushed things like eat more boosters or TRT, which with TRT it's suspended in polyunsaturated fats.

[00:03:57]It aromatizes, causes a worse estate.

[00:04:02]And another thing, low T is inevitable.

[00:04:05]You get pushed the idea that that's just part of life, it's genetic or something like that, and it creates this state of learned helplessness. But in reality, it can be optimized.

[00:04:19]But physiologically, aging is often declining mitochondrial respiration.

[00:04:24]So, the ability of your cells to produce energy at its optimal state through cell respiration, the carbon dioxide metabolism.

[00:04:35]The increasing stress hormones, increasing inflammation, increasing PUFA accumulation, declining thyroid function, declining carbon dioxide production.

[00:04:45]From a bioenergetic perspective, testosterone falls between oxidative metabolism falls.

[00:04:52]Because oxidative metabolism falls.

[00:04:55]So, in this case, that should be the thing that we should be prioritized, the oxidative metabolism.

[00:05:02]Albert Szent-Györgyi argued that life itself depends on energetic electron flow and organized biological energy transfer.

[00:05:10]And Peat extended this idea into endocrinology.

[00:05:14]Healthy respiration supports structure, and stress chemistry breaks structure down.

[00:05:20]And this is what people go through. When they're young, they can handle a lot of stress because they're in an energy surplus, they can tolerate things. And as you age, it gets worse.

[00:05:31]If you're in your 40s, you're here. And I feel like this crossover has been pushed closer and closer into youth. And we see that a lot with young guys, even women have hormonal issues at a very young age.

[00:05:48]Long time ago, this would be pushed later.

[00:05:51]And you're probably going through this right now, right?

[00:05:54]So, your stress hormones are higher than your protective hormones.

[00:05:59]So, part two, the real testosterone killers after 40.

[00:06:03]So, number one is chronic cortisol elevation.

[00:06:07]Everybody knows that, but why? Cortisol and testosterone oppose each other.

[00:06:12]So, high cortisol suppresses gonadotropins, reduces testicular steroidogenesis, so the production of steroid hormones.

[00:06:23]Increases aromatase, which is an enzyme that converts testosterone into estrogen, breaks down muscle because cortisol is a glucocorticoid steroid, which converts your muscle tissue into glucose through gluconeogenesis, also elaborates um tryptophan into the system.

[00:06:41]Tryptophan gets converted into serotonin through the tryptophan hydroxylase enzyme.

[00:06:47]And serotonin is the metabolic governor, which lowers the metabolic rate. When the metabolic rate drops, that means there's less T3 active thyroid, which means there's less conversion of thyroid into pregnenolone, which pregnenolone is the foundation to testosterone, right?

[00:07:05]Lowers thyroid conversion, like I mentioned, because it depletes the liver out of glycogen. And glycogen in the liver is needed to convert T4 inactive thyroid into T3 active thyroid. And what's actually happening, T4 is getting converted into reverse T3, resulting in a low metabolic rate. And it increases abdominal fat, which in essence increases aromatase because body fat stores more aromatase enzyme, hence why being 8 to 15% body fat is the optimal state to be in.

[00:07:40]So, men after 40 commonly live in chronic under eating, right? So, they're not fueling the body. They're not giving the body the nutrients that it needs to function optimally.

[00:07:52]Chronic fasting.

[00:07:54]There's fads around avoiding food, fasting, intermittent fasting. And a lot of guys see some results because they're avoiding the problematic foods.

[00:08:04]They're giving their gut a break and they're seeing some benefits and short-term fasting with leads to higher stress hormones like cortisol can feel quite nice.

[00:08:15]Then the anti-inflammatory, but long-term very damaging.

[00:08:19]I know this cuz I done this for I did intermittent fasting for a good 3 4 5 years with 3-day fasts and things like that because I was eating problematic foods.

[00:08:31]So, I felt better not eating rather than eating. But, if you When you realize that when you eat the right foods, you can eat constantly and your body feels good and it it gives you energy, right?

[00:08:42]So, overtraining, sleep deprivation, emotional hypervigilance, blood sugar instability, these all elevate cortisol. Hans Selye's stress model has shown that chronic stress hormones eventually shift the organism from adaptation to degeneration.

[00:09:02]Pete heavily relied on Selye's work, right?

[00:09:07]So, for a short time, it means your body can positively adapt to a stressor.

[00:09:12]But, as you push it for too long, it starts degrading your system, right?

[00:09:17]So, since cortisol is suppressing testosterone, you wake up at 3 4 a.m.

[00:09:21]So, um on interrupted sleep, I mean. Cold hands and feet, belly fat, low libido, slow sex drive.

[00:09:32]And in some cases, it can be excessively high to the point of uncontrollableness.

[00:09:38]So, the body is so stressed out, it wants to pass on the genes because it it's going to die soon in the essence, right?

[00:09:45]And hypersexuality can be a form of self-medicating under stress.

[00:09:53]Irritability, afternoon crashes, anxiety with fasting, dependence on stimulants.

[00:10:00]Number two, estrogen excess in men. So, that's another reason why that causes them when you're that age, estrogen is a big problem.

[00:10:08]One of P's central ideas, men increasingly become estrogenized with age. There's a book good book on this called Estrogenation. It really goes deep into this when it comes to plastics, polyunsaturated fats are very estrogenic, the water that you drink, so on and so forth, the clothes that you wear, the cleaning products you have at home.

[00:10:29]This is not really about circulating estrogen levels, it's about poor liver clearance. So, if your liver is not fueled properly, the liver can't detoxify the estrogen.

[00:10:40]Aromatization, high body fat leads to conversion of testosterone to estrogen, and the toxic burdens the liver is estrogenic. PUFA are very estrogenic.

[00:10:50]Inflammation, stress.

[00:10:53]So, estrogen in men can cause gynecomastia, so it's man boobs.

[00:10:58]You're very emotional, water retention, prostate enlargement, low libido, erectile problems, reduced androgen signaling.

[00:11:08]So, you may have high testosterone on paper, but you have low androgen receptors.

[00:11:15]P D Vit many aging male symptoms as fundamentally estrogen stress syndromes rather than testosterone deficiency syndromes, right?

[00:11:23]So, you can do all of those things to boost testosterone, but there's two ways it can go. It can go with the DHT pathway, which builds the character, psychological and physical, or estrogen.

[00:11:36]Overweight, mental issues.

[00:11:39]And I've made videos on DHT. A lot of guys think that DHT is bad, but it's not. It's very good.

[00:11:45]A lot of the characteristics of high testosterone is due to DHT rather than uh testosterone.

[00:11:54]Next is PUFA accumulation.

[00:11:57]So, polyunsaturated fats like vegetable oils are probably the single most overlooked factor.

[00:12:03]Pete believes PUFA suppress mitochondrial respiration, inhibit thyroid function, increase lipid peroxidation, amplify inflammation, sensitize tissues to stress hormones. In aging eyes, infant eyes, and excitable tissues, Pete wrote, "The polyunsaturated fats, which accumulate in the brain and retina, damage mitochondria."

[00:12:26]The same principle applies to testes and Leydig cells.

[00:12:30]So, Leydig cells is the cells in your testicles that you produce testosterone. So, testosterone synthesis is highly energy-dependent.

[00:12:38]Damaged mitochondria equals impaired steroid production.

[00:12:42]So, which each unsaturation of fats is a greater effect on your thyroid. And PUFA is the most unsaturated, so it has many bonds and it oxidizes in the body.

[00:12:54]Right?

[00:12:55]And polyunsaturated fats get very liberated. You might not consume vegetable oils in your diet right now, but you may be having in the last two, three, four years. It can take to deplete those things. And every time you get into a low blood sugar state, or if you're fasting, if you're fasting, you're on a 100% polyunsaturated fat diet. Think about how crazy that is.

[00:13:22]And polyunsaturated fats, when you look at studies, they're extremely problematic when it comes to energy function.

[00:13:30]For example, when they done a experiments on chickens and they injected one egg yolk with glucose and another one with polyunsaturated fats, the one with glucose had a bigger brain, the one with polyunsaturated fats had uh clinical retardation because they uh messed with the production of energy the two for proper energy flow.

[00:13:52]So, polyunsaturated fats are problematic when people talk about the Randle cycle and they're like, "You shouldn't have fats and carbohydrates in the same time." The problem is not saturated fats, it's polyunsaturated fats because they get priority priority and they create a type 2 diabetic state instantly. So, they mess with the body's ability to produce energy from carbohydrates.

[00:14:15]Um so, PUFAs are extremely problematic.

[00:14:19]And the reason why having a lot of fats in your diet is problematic like keto, you may focus on saturated fats from coconut oil, but even coconut oil has 3% polyunsaturated fats. So, if you have enough of coconut oil per day, you still will get PUFA if you consume too much.

[00:14:39]A greater way is enough eat enough carbohydrates and your body can convert that sugar into saturated fats and cholesterol and things like that.

[00:14:50]>> [snorts] >> So, number four, low thyroid function Peat's framework. Thyroid is the master regulator of androgen productions.

[00:14:58]So, low low thyroid lowers pregnenolone, progesterone, DHEA, testosterone, the youth associated hormones T3, these three.

[00:15:08]It also increases prolactin, estrogen, cortisol, serotonin.

[00:15:17]So, Broda Barnes observed that many aging symptoms improved dramatically with restoration of thyroid function.

[00:15:24]So, as you can see here, this is the foundation.

[00:15:28]I remember when I got started into testosterone optimization nearly 10 years ago.

[00:15:35]Um I didn't understand this. I would follow these and influencers do all the testosterone boosters, look for tactics, right? But once you understand the foundation, you can have a template to uh compare a certain tactic to, right? Are are Brazil nuts good for you? Okay, so you break down what are Brazil nuts?

[00:15:58]What do they contain? They're high in polyunsaturated fats, which they mess with thyroid function.

[00:16:03]So, no, they're not optimal, right? So, on and so forth.

[00:16:08]Is olive oil good for you? Olive oil is all right, but it's 10% polyunsaturated fats. So, if I consume enough of it, it will affect thyroid hormone and thus mess with testosterone production. And it's simple as that, right?

[00:16:21]So, once you understand the principles, you have clarity. So, you don't have to chase these shiny objects, right?

[00:16:29]So, your body takes cholesterol, vitamin A A retinol, T3 active thyroid, then you produce pregnenolone, which is a youth associated hormone, which is needed to produce things like DHEA, testosterone, DHT and things like that.

[00:16:48]So, here are some signs that you might have low thyroid. So, low pulse and low body temperature. This is something you can track right now and have clarity.

[00:16:58]Hair thinning, depression, constipation, poor recovery, low libido, low morning erections.

[00:17:04]Temperature and pulse were Peat's preferred metabolic biomarkers.

[00:17:08]It's very simple.

[00:17:10]And the toxin and poor digestion. So, number five, Peat considered the intestine central to hormonal health. So, in a way your gut is like the first contact contact to the outside world, like the digestive tract, which starts with the mouth.

[00:17:26]So, endotoxin from bacteria overgrowth raises serotonin.

[00:17:31]And 90 to 95% of serotonin is produced in the gut. And endotoxin and irritates the gut, increases serotonin, raises nitric oxide, raises estrogen, impairs liver function.

[00:17:44]So, it decreases the energy in the liver, messing with your T4 to T3 conversion, suppresses thyroid function.

[00:17:52]A stressed intestine creates a stressed endocrine system.

[00:17:56]Men with bloating, IBS, constipation, loose stools, reflux, food intolerances often also have suppressed androgens, right?

[00:18:06]So, part three, why testosterone boosters usually fail.

[00:18:12]So, most boosters are stimulants. And I'm telling you from a place of I spent three, four, five hundred dollars a month on supplements. I've tried all of those things. And now I spend 20 euro a month on supplements, which are like basic things, right?

[00:18:30]Which you can even argue I don't need, right? Before I need to I needed these things every month to feel all right or chase that high, you know?

[00:18:41]And most of these boosters, like you have tribulus, tongkat ali, dodder, excessive zinc, D-aspartic acid, yohimbine stimulants. And a lot of these work by increasing catecholamines. So, you get a high off of stress, increase stress activation, temporarily stimulating libido, so you get very aroused.

[00:19:02]Other things are like very serotonergic, so it makes you very numb, so you don't react to stress in your life, right?

[00:19:10]This is not the same thing as restoring metabolism. Many men feel amped up, aggressive, wired, restless, while actual health worsens and I've experienced this. I was taking this and I needed more more because it was actually degrading my health.

[00:19:26]And I don't know if these supplement companies know these things, but some of these might operate from that lens, which is getting people addicted to their supplements because as long as you take those supplements you feel good, but what kind of life is that, right?

[00:19:46]Well, actual sub-metabolic trap, a low energy or organism cannot sustainably maintain a high androgen production, forcing testosterone upwards while hypothyroid, inflamed, sleep deprived, underfed, PUFA loaded often backfires.

[00:20:06]You can temporarily whip the organism into output, but eventually cortisol rises, estrogen rises, sleep worsens, libido crashes again.

[00:20:15]And I respect the guys that >> [clears throat] >> actually pivot because fad diets can work short-term.

[00:20:24]And when you do something and you get some results, now you're playing not to lose. You're like, "I don't want to let go of this."

[00:20:30]But the guys that really completely do a switcheroo and they're like, "No, this is wrong." and try something new, respect to you and you see this with carnivore diet as a keto guys or this or that.

[00:20:43]And you see a lot of trends with the rate peat style of doing things.

[00:20:47]So, part four, what to do instead.

[00:20:50]Rise metabolic rate. This is the foundation, not stimulates high aggression, but cellular respiration, warmth, carbon dioxide, glycogen stability.

[00:21:03]Particle size metabolism is improving, warmer hands and feet, stronger pulse, calmer mood, deeper sleep, spontaneous libido, better morning erections, easier muscle gain, lower waist circum- circum- circumference, sorry.

[00:21:20]for the uh pronunciation.

[00:21:23]But, that's a big one and that was one of the key factors that got me into hormonal optimization. I started at 16 purely getting into aesthetics, building muscle, and yes, training and all of those things, nutrition, caloric count your calories can work. But, I've seen that as I improved my hormones and made that a priority, my body would morph into those things. My waist would get smaller, shoulders would get bigger.

[00:21:56]And you see these examples with others.

[00:22:00]It's like like biologically, like you see gorillas, they don't have a 7-day a week DUP just daily undulating periodization training style, and they have all this muscle because it's due to hormones, right? They build that androgen-dense physique.

[00:22:17]And when hormones become a priority, you look better like I used to have to train six times a week to have a good physique. Now I train 1.5 to 2 times a week, right? So, 1.5 meaning one week one time, another week twice.

[00:22:39]And I have a very good physique as a natural, right? And that's purely by prioritizing proper training style, but also prioritizing hormones.

[00:22:50]>> [sighs] >> So, number two, eating enough carbohydrates. A lot of guys are afraid of carbohydrates.

[00:22:56]And when they even do introduce carbohydrate, they're still eat not eating enough.

[00:23:02]Especially when they're coming from low carbohydrate diets, they're just afraid of sugar.

[00:23:07]And when it comes to carbohydrates, and I've had this experience when I done the ketogenic diet is you don't want to be in that in between zone.

[00:23:17]You either want to be keto 100% or you want to have enough carbohydrates to sustain you, right? Because if you're in that low carbohydrate state, like in the middle, your insulin's all over the place.

[00:23:30]Your gluconeogenesis is all over the place. You want to give your body enough carbohydrates to fuel.

[00:23:37]So, Peat strongly opposed low carb diets for hormonal health. Why? Because glucose protects against stress hormones. Low carb diets commonly rise cortisol, adrenaline, and free fatty acids.

[00:23:47]Chronically elevated free fatty acids suppress glucose oxidation and thyroid function.

[00:23:52]Especially protective fruit, orange juice, ripe tropical fruit, honey, sucrose in the context of adequate protein minerals. This stabilizes liver glycogen. Stable glycogen equals low or nocturnal nocturnal cortisol.

[00:24:08]Cuz fundamentally, what is cortisol?

[00:24:10]It's a glucocorticoid steroid to maintain blood sugar under times of stress, right? And under times of low carbohydrate intake to convert your muscle tissue or the protein you ate into gluco glucose gluconeogenesis, the creation of new glucose.

[00:24:33]Number three, improve liver function.

[00:24:35]The liver regulates estrogen clearance, thyroid conversion, glycogen storage, steroid metabolism.

[00:24:42]A sluggish liver often means higher estrogen, lower testosterone availability, lower conversion of T4 to T3, higher SHBG levels, so on and so forth, lower detoxification of polyunsaturated fats and endotoxin. So, very important.

[00:25:00]So, here are some take-home helpful habits.

[00:25:05]So, make sure you consume adequate protein.

[00:25:08]Around 0.7 g per pound of body weight, lean body weight, for example. Especially dairy, gelatin, shellfish, eggs, liver occasionally.

[00:25:17]Stop with the muscle meats, especially over the age of 40. Younger guys can still benefit with tryptophan and be converted into vitamin B12.

[00:25:29]But, older guys, you want to stay away from those inflammatory amino acids.

[00:25:34]Prioritize glycine, proline, things like that. Very important. Another thing is especially in older age, the intestine, keeping that clean.

[00:25:47]So, having a daily carrot salad, so, Pete often recommended raw carrots, vinegar, coconut oil, salt. Why? Because it can reduce endotoxins and estrogen up reabsorption, inflammatory bacterial products. When you see see in studies, people who are older, like 50, 60, 70s, benefit with high cholesterol levels because cholesterol is a protective mechanism against endotoxin, which is high in times of a sluggish uh bowel movements, intestine, and things like that. So, eating enough sugar so you can have enough cholesterol in the body, but also keeping that good clean.

[00:26:26]You see, that laxatives even benefit older people because it keeps it clean, right?

[00:26:33]Number four, lower PUFA intake aggressively.

[00:26:36]This is foundational in Pete's system.

[00:26:39]Avoid excess.

[00:26:41]And a lot of guys think, "Oh, it's just vegetable oils. I'm not consuming any vegetable oils." But, you'd be surprised if you really read the ingredients of things that you wouldn't consider that have polyunsaturated fats, random things like you go to the shop to buy some sushi full of PUFAs, buying raisins, it's full of polyunsaturated fats because it's coated. Anything, I don't know, bread, cookies, this, yogurts, anything. They just put it in there. I don't know if it's a humiliation ritual, but it's there.

[00:27:14]So, you can find these in seed oils, fish oils, nuts, nut butters, fatty chicken, pork. Yes, because the diet of chicken, pork is reflected in their body fat stores, right? You There was studies on this where they fed pigs coconut oil and they were extremely shredded versus polyunsaturated fats, they get fat easier, right?

[00:27:38]So, pork has high PUFA. Processed foods, prefer butter, dairy fat, coconut oil, ruminant fats. Pete considered coconut oil particularly protective because of anti-endotoxin effects, support for oxidative metabolism, reduced lipid peroxidation.

[00:27:55]Number five, sleep deeply. It's easier said than done. I know a lot of guys and I've worked with guys that are in their 40s and 50s that they just can't sleep. You see these guys that are like, "Just sleep more." But when you have a low metabolic state, you can't even fall asleep because energy is required for deep sleep. It's a state of relaxation because it takes energy to relax. That's what a cramp is.

[00:28:22]It doesn't require energy to contract, but it requires energy to relax.

[00:28:28]And wakefulness and all of those things is a byproduct of a low metabolic state.

[00:28:33]But fundamentally, eating the right things, keeping the gut clean, fixing micronutrient deficiencies will help that. More testosterone release occurs during sleep.

[00:28:44]But Pete's framework goes deeper. Good sleep reflects low night and cortisol, adequate glycogen, sufficient thyroid function, low stress chemistry, helpful strategies. Eat before bed. That's a big one. I've made a video on it recently.

[00:28:57]And especially sugar, easily digestible.

[00:29:00]Avoid heavy protein, starches, and things like that. Avoid fasting. Keep blood sugar stable. Reduce blue light at night. Get bright light during the day.

[00:29:12]Pete repeatedly emphasized the anti-stress effects of bright light. So, these are a few strategies that you can utilize.

[00:29:19]Number six, build muscle without overtraining. So, after 40, recovery matters more than intensity.

[00:29:26]Overtraining elevates cortisol, ser- a serotonin inflammation. The goal is not an annihilation.

[00:29:34]The goal is anabolic signaling without chronic stress activation, right?

[00:29:40]So, activating as much muscle possible in the shortest period of time while staying under your stress threshold.

[00:29:46]This could be one sprint, two sprints twice a week.

[00:29:52]And that's it, right?

[00:29:54]Just stimulate the muscle and you optimize that, right? Improve the antigens. So, better approach, brief resistance training, walking, sprinting occasionally, sunlight, daily movement.

[00:30:07]Avoid exhaustive endurance work, chronic glycogen depleted depletion, stimulant stimulant fueled workouts.

[00:30:16]Number seven, support thyroid function.

[00:30:19]This does not necessarily mean taking thyroid hormone. It means creating conditions where thyroid can function.

[00:30:26]Important nutrients, adequate sodium, calcium, potassium, magnesium, protein, carbohydrates. Many men after 40 are underfed, over-caffeinated, mineral depleted. And what do I mean by this?

[00:30:37]Because I recommend caffeine is you run on caffeine under a stressed state rather than a protective state.

[00:30:45]So, you're stimulated rather than relaxing driven from a metabolic state.

[00:30:51]Number eight, reduce serotonin and prolactin. So, Pete saw serotonin as anti-metabolic, inflammatory, suppressive to androgens.

[00:31:01]High serotonin often correlates with learned helplessness, passivity, low libido, fatigue. Prolactin also suppresses testosterone signaling.

[00:31:11]And prolactin in a blood test is a sign of high serotonin and estrogen levels in tissues.

[00:31:17]Often overlooked prolactin drivers are things like chronic stress, darkness, even a lot of sounds, sleep deprivation, hypothyroidism, excessive estrogen.

[00:31:29]Next, number five, the psychological component. Carl Rogers wrote, "The good life is a process, not a state of being." Many men after 40 lose vitality not only metabolically, but physi- physiologically.

[00:31:45]So, chronic defeat, emotional suppression, isolation, purposeless, like less no purpose. You see this with a lot of guys who make a lot of money, they sell their company, and they have nothing to work towards. They age very quickly.

[00:31:58]People going through divorce, depending on the reason, maybe they actually feel more freedom from that, but it really depends.

[00:32:07]Um Stress chemistry is existential as well as biochemical. A man with purpose, social connection, sunlight, meaningful work, play, emotional expression, fun often has dramatically different endocrine function.

[00:32:24]So, number six, what actually raises testosterone naturally? Not supplements.

[00:32:29]Supplements are to supplement an already good regimen that maintains good testosterone levels.

[00:32:38]But things like warmth, safety, nourishment, light, glycogen, thyroid function, low inflammation, good sleep, meaningful activity.

[00:32:46]In Peat's framework, testosterone is a marker of an organism that feels energetically safe enough to build.

[00:32:53]Part seven, a simple after 40 testosterone strategy.

[00:32:58]So, morning. So, you wake up with bright good light, red light or sunlight. Then you have protein carbohydrate breakfast, a 2:1 ratio of carbohydrate to protein, so more carbohydrates.

[00:33:10]Things like coffee with sugar and milk if tolerated, movement, very solid midday, fruit, dairy, shellfish, or quality protein. Avoid PUFA-heavy restaurant foods. Evening, balanced dinner with carbs, avoid fasting, salt food adequately.

[00:33:27]And throughout the day you're working towards something, you're having fun, you have good people around you. Before bed, fruit, honey, milk, or gelatin snack if prone to stress waking.

[00:33:40]So, final perspective.

[00:33:42]The biggest mistake men make after 40 is try to force masculinity chemically while living in a profoundly anti-metabolic state. The organism interprets chronic stress, sleep loss, inflammation, or their feeding as famine conditions.

[00:33:59]And in famine, reproduction is deprioritized.

[00:34:03]Peat's central idea was that energy and structure are inseparable.

[00:34:08]Meaning you want to work your way up from energy. When energy production improves, and energy from protective hormones and low stress, it improves hormones, not normalize, libido often returns, body composition improves, resilience increases. The goal is not merely higher testosterone, the goal is a higher energy organism.

[00:34:32]So, if you have testosterone issues, apply those things.

[00:34:36]If you need one-on-one help, you can book a free call down below. I can have a conversation with you.

[00:34:42]And also, I recommend downloading the Metabolic Dominant E-book. Free link in bio that goes into some of these strategies on a deeper level.

[00:34:50]And yet, that being said, I'll see you in the next one. God bless.