August 27, 2025 • 36 mins
Could your hormones be secretly sabotaging your health, energy, and performance? Dive into this eye-opening conversation where Dr. J reveals why achieving optimal hormone balance might be the missing piece in your health puzzle.
Most people don't realize that hormones are the master controllers of virtually every function in your body. When they're out of balance, it becomes physically impossible for your cells to function properly – regardless of how well you eat or how hard you train. Dr. J dismantles common misconceptions, explaining that testosterone replacement therapy is completely different from anabolic steroids, using bioidentical hormones at physiological doses rather than chemically-altered compounds 1000x stronger than what your body naturally produces.
The revelation that optimal testosterone levels (800-1200 ng/dL) dramatically reduce risks of heart disease, cancer, Alzheimer's and depression challenges the conventional medical approach that considers anything above 300 ng/dL "normal." This isn't just about muscle gains – it's about protecting your long-term health and feeling fully alive now. Dr. J also explains why the FDA recently removed cardiovascular warnings from testosterone therapy after overwhelming evidence showed its heart benefits.
Beyond testosterone, we explore how cortisol patterns developed over decades affect your sleep, recovery and cognitive function, while insulin resistance (affecting 94% of Americans yet rarely tested by conventional doctors) might be the hidden culprit behind stubborn fat loss plateaus and accelerated aging. You'll discover why building muscle at any age is non-negotiable for metabolic health, with research showing even 80-year-old women can gain significant muscle with proper resistance training.
Ready to stop accepting "normal" and start pursuing optimal? Visit unstoppable365.com to get comprehensive hormone testing and personalized protocols that address the root causes keeping you from reaching your full potential. Your future self will thank you for taking action today.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We're working with people that want to be
superhuman unstoppable, and wewant your testosterone to be at
that range where you can besuperhuman.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Exactly so if someone's listening to this and
you're lacking motivation drive,your morale is down.
Like a lot of the guys we talkto, they feel they have brain
fog or they feel borderlinedepressed.
They're like dude, I just don'tfeel the way I want to feel.
The way I want to feel.
(00:35):
I am back with the man, Dr J,and this mini series that we're
doing together is officiallytitled everything that I'm
taking to become superhuman withDr J, and today we're going to
be talking about hormones.
So, dr J, what hormones are wegoing to be talking about
hormones?
So, dr j, what hormones aregoing to be touched on today?
Speaker 1 (00:46):
yeah, hormones are so important for what goes on in
the body.
Um, so we're going to talkabout just a few.
Uh, we want to talk abouttestosterone and testosterone
and estrogen balance,particularly for men.
You know most of our listenersare men on your podcast and my
podcast, both um.
So testosterone, cortisol,which is your stress hormone,
(01:06):
and insulin, which is a majormetabolism controlling hormone.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Yeah, and so, like you said, for guys, they hear
about TRT, everyone's talkingabout TRT and most people think
it's just like a steroid, likeyou're going to take it and get
super jacked in the gym and haveabs and it's going to be easy
to get results and number one.
That's not the case.
But since I met you about whata year and a half ago and
(01:33):
started working with you, you'veeducated me a lot on
testosterone alone, not just allthe hormones, and how
intertwined everything is in thebody.
But one of the things thatreally caught my attention is
like, sean, if your hormones arenot optimized, your cells can't
be optimized, meaning, if yourhormones are off, it's what it's
(01:54):
impossible for your cells tofunction optimally and that's
going to lead to all kinds ofthings down the road.
When you told me that, I waslike wow, you know, and you
explained to me that yourcognition and things like even
like cancer, alzheimer's,dementia, all these different
things that develop in people asthey get older these ailments
are somewhat preventable or arepreventable if your hormones are
(02:17):
dialed in Right.
So I started on TRT personallyprobably a year ago.
Started on TRT personallyprobably a year ago and before I
took my test with you, Ithought I felt pretty damn good,
and that's when you explainedto me you go, look, you're in
the gym working out, you'remotivated.
I get that, but a lot of otherhealth factors are dependent on
(02:38):
your hormones being balanced.
So that's when we looked attestosterone, we looked at
estrogen, we looked at mycortisol levels, we looked at my
insulin sensitivity, and so,since working with you and
addressing those things, myhealth has definitely improved.
Things like my sleep, myrecovery.
Yeah, my strength in the gymhas gone up.
Yeah, my results from all thework I put in the gym have
(03:02):
improved.
But it's all those other thingslike your focus, your morale.
So let's explain that to likesomebody who's watching this
right now and they've heard allthe buzz about testosterone or
hormones in general.
Where do you want?
to start, because I think we geta lot of questions where people
are fearful of TRT or hormonalreplacement therapy.
(03:22):
So let's kind of break down whyhormones are so important first
of all.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Yeah, because hormones are controlling what's
going on inside your body andthe reason why people are
fearful is because there's somuch bad information out there
from the conventional medicalworld, which has terrible
information on so many things.
But then also there's lots ofreally bad examples.
Like you brought up steroidsand anabolic steroids and people
(03:48):
think that is what testosteronereplacement is.
Um, which is very, verydifferent.
There's, there's two completelydifferent things Um yo.
So, yes, you can actually usethe same testosterone that that
you're taking for testosteronereplacement and use a like
anabolic steroid in in supraphysiologic doses so that's like
beyond normal doses and get, uh, excessive muscle growth and
(04:09):
things like that the same typeof results you can get from an
anabolic steroid.
But an anabolic steroid isdifferent than testosterone
because an anabolic steroid has,has been chemically changed
testosterone or chemicallychanged dht or another you know
hormone chemically changed andaltered to be 10 to 100 to 1000
times stronger than normaltestosterone.
(04:29):
So when we're doingtestosterone replacement, we
want to do testosterone, actualtestosterone, the same
testosterone your body wants tomake and does make.
We're just giving to that in aone to one more of that cue
that's called bioidenticaltestosterone, and so very
different effects than somethinglike a Winstroll or a
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Decadurabolin or anyway.
There's lots of anabolicsteroids that are, like I said,
100 to 1,000 times stronger thantestosterone and because of
that, they're 100 to 1,000 timesmore likely to cause problems,
and people think those problemsare the same things that come up
with actual testosteronereplacement, which is not true.
Two, two completely differentthings, two completely different
goals that we're trying toachieve, um, when we're doing
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those therapies.
So I think that's the biggestone is, you know, the, the,
basically the jim bro medicinethat talks about the anabolic
steroids and then conventionalmedicine.
Because of that, they're afraidof that as well.
They're afraid of testosterone.
They don't know how toprescribe it, they don't know
how to recommend it or work inthe readings, because of just
the bad information that's outthere.
And so it definitely makessense that people are afraid and
(05:34):
don't understand, becausereally all of the information
out there that's commonlyavailable is is just poor
quality information yeah, andyou shared something with me the
other day specifically aboutTRT.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
I forgot what you called it the black box label,
or there was a certain term youused, but can you share that new
research that's come out aboutTRT?
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Yeah, so with medication, sometimes
medications have a warning labelthat when they get approved
they're like this is approved,but there's also a warning with
it and that's called a black boxlabel.
Um, and different medicationshave had over overtime um, but
for testosterone, um, they had ablack box warning for
cardiovascular health, and sothat means when testosterone got
(06:15):
approved by the fda, they saidthere's they, they were worried
about the cardiovascular effectsand the negative possibilities
with that um, and that was, youknow, back in the 90s or
whenever that officially camethrough late 80s, and so that
black box warning has been there, that linking testosterone with
cardiovascular health problems.
But the data was sooverwhelming in fact so
(06:39):
overwhelming, showing thattestosterone was beneficial for
cardiovascular health that justwithin the last month or so
since we're doing this recording, they had to remove that black
box warning because no longercould they say that science
showed that taking testosteroneincreased any type of
cardiovascular risk events, andso that was a huge step for
(07:01):
testosterone replacement therapyin general, because it's very
rare that the FDA will remove ablack box warning like that
unless, like I said, the dataand the science has to be so
overwhelming that it shows that.
And, like I said, it'soverwhelming.
What is it called?
Speaker 2 (07:16):
A black box.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Yeah, a black box warning, because most
prescriptions come in a box andthey have a little like black
warning label on it for the, forthe pharmacists.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
So yeah, well, that's crazy too.
Like you said, the fda veryseldom is gonna reverse one of
those warnings, so the theresearch and evidence must have
been just so definitive, youknow, so overwhelming, and you,
you know.
So that's one of the things islike people always have these
concerns about testosterone.
So cardiovascular issues is one.
(07:46):
You know what's another,another one that we hear often.
Well, a lot of doctors, like Italked to guys and they go to
the doctor and theirtestosterone is at 300.
And the doctor goes oh well,you're somewhat within range,
like, you're good.
I've even heard people like andso let's clear that up for
anyone listening to this if theywant to have a good life, like,
(08:08):
they want to feel good, theywant to age properly or not age
right, they want to.
They want to have their health100 optimized.
Where, where should a man'stestosterone be?
Speaker 1 (08:20):
right, yeah, there's a very big difference between
normal on a normal lab value andoptimal on a lab value, and so
that's really what we need todiscuss, because how lab
companies come up with thatnormal range is they take 10,000
samples of all the men thatgive blood and then they're like
, oh, this is what the averagebell curve looks like, and so
that's what they determine asnormal, when really the majority
(08:42):
of men that go and get theirblood work done are older men
that are sick and overweight andmetabolically not healthy high
blood pressure, heart diseasewhich is why that bell curve is
so skewed down low.
But when we look at the studiesof men that are healthy, that
are optimized, that are buildingmuscle, they have the best
brain health, the best hearthealth, the you know,
functioning overall, the bestmoods.
(09:04):
Their testosterone range isbetween 800 and 1200, and so
that's the optimal range andthen that's the and the studies
then back it up and show thatmen are between that between 800
and 1200, have less heartattacks, they have less strokes,
they have less alzheimer'sdisease, they have less cancer,
they have, you know, bettersexual function, better sex
(09:25):
lives, better moods, betterattitudes, better memory kind of
all the things kind of acrossthe board that we're looking for
.
Less aches and pains.
All the things happen with menin that testosterone level of
eight to 1200.
And so that's where it is, andso that's what we shoot for.
Like, we don't want people tobe normal that we work with.
We're working with people thatwant to be superhuman,
(09:45):
unstoppable, and we we want yourtestosterone to be at that
range where, where you can be,yeah, superhuman and unstoppable
exactly so.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
If someone's listening to this and you're
lacking motivation drive, yourmorale is down.
Like a lot of the guys we talkto, they feel they have brain
fog or they feel borderlinedepressed.
They're're like dude, I justdon't feel the way I want to
feel.
And they notice like this kindof drastic change when they get
to what their late 30s 40sChances are.
(10:16):
Your testosterone something'soff.
We can test that.
You know Dr J can test you tosee where your testosterone
levels are at.
So they can go tounstoppable365.com, they can
reach out to one of usindividually through Messenger,
through one of our social mediaplatforms.
But definitely get the testbecause at least you'll see
(10:37):
where you're at and then fromthere, if you do need help with
your hormones, dr J is the manto see, and so let's kind of use
that as a segue or let's justanything else you wanna-.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Well, yeah, let's one last thing on that.
By the time you start to noticethat decline, like you notice
you know a lot of guys aretalking about the late thirties
when they start to notice it, bythe time you notice it, that
means you've probably been lowfor five to seven years and just
slowly catching up to you.
So I did, and this is what Ilearned from from my good friend
now going on, however manyyears ago, since I was 27, when
(11:10):
I was in medical, finishing upmedical school, and at his
office and he's ran mytestosterone and he's like
you're at 536, 27,.
You need to be higher.
And I was like what are youtalking about?
I'm, I'm, I'm good, right, Ihadn't, I hadn't learned
everything yet.
And um started on testosteronewhen I was 27 and taking a
pretty consistently since then.
Of course, I always forgetevery now and then, um, cause
(11:31):
doctors are the worst patients,um, and I'm my own worst patient
a lot of times, um.
But so if you, if you arestarting to notice the signs, if
you're starting to wonder ifthat you might be low in
testosterone, you should havegot your labs checked two years
ago.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
So so today's, you know you can't go back in time
two years ago, but today is aday you can get that checked, so
yeah, and something I will addto a lot of guys go to like
men's ageless clinic or otherdoctors, and these companies are
starting to charge a lot fortestosterone.
Maybe is that because they wantto make more money, dr j, or
(12:08):
yeah, yeah.
So what I will say, withoutgoing too in depth, is uh, dr J
is priced in a way that's veryaffordable for people and it's
the best value that I've seenout there compared to any other
option.
So don't procrastinate, man.
If you're listening to this,you got to get your TRT checked.
(12:28):
Go to unstoppable365.com.
Navigate the website.
You'll find how to take Ibelieve it's on there right, how
to get access to the TRT test,the hormone test.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Yep.
So yeah, it shouldn't be toohard to find, especially since
we're updating our website to beeven more user-friendly in the
next week or so.
But yeah, and then, just onthat too, like it's definitely
kind of scary with how easy itis to get testosterone online
and you might meet with a doctorprovider once and they might
prescribe it.
And then I've talked to guyswho have gone multiple years
without ever talking to anotherdoctor or ever getting their
(13:00):
labs done afterwards to verifythat they're at a good, healthy
level for their testosterone.
And so this is also a warningfor you guys that are out there
listening If you are ontestosterone from an online
clinic because there's lots ofthem and they're not checking on
you, they're not verifying thatyou're in a good range, they're
(13:21):
not checking your other markersthat need to be checked.
Um, you go somewhere that's atleast going to pay attention to
you and cares and not justtrying to collect your money all
the time.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
So yeah, yeah that's crazy, like I do my blood work,
especially checking into your,my testosterone, estrogen, every
three months and then doing thedeeper dive you know know what
once a year at the least, to seehow my overall body, my
biomarkers, my health isadapting, changing, improving.
So let's segue into justbriefly, before we talk about
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cortisol and insulin, I want totouch on estrogen because one of
the things that happened when Igot my test was my estrogen was
actually really low, which yousaid was good, the ratio to
estrogen and testosterone.
But as you take testosterone,the estrogen can start to creep
up and that can affect health,right, it can affect your.
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We have a special guest herereal quick.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Preston making his appearance normal.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
So can you briefly explain, like I thought estrogen
was more relevant to women, butevery men and women have, you
know, testosterone, they haveestrogen.
So can you explain to theviewers like why estrogen is
important, what kind of roles itplays with health and what they
got to do there?
Speaker 1 (14:38):
important, uh, what kind of roles it plays with
health and what.
What they got to do there.
Yeah, yeah, and it and it is.
It is important, um, andthere's.
Just like women havetestosterone, men need estrogen
too, um, and it's a need.
You can't to suppress yourestrogen completely and think
you're gonna feel good.
Um, for men, estrogen isimportant for Moods, it's
important for libido, it'simportant for bone health,
important for moods, it'simportant for libido, it's
important for bone health,important for brain health lots
(14:58):
of different things but it needsto be in the right balance and
ratio with testosterone.
So we want somewhere around a20 to 1 ratio of testosterone to
estrogen on your labs.
But there's sometimes too, issome guys do better with a
little bit higher estrogen, andso it's all about you and what
your body's telling us and howyou're feeling and how we can
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optimize you.
Because I've even seen somestudies recently I've been a
little bit looser on someestrogen control for guys that
don't have any symptoms thatestrogen is good for the heart
and can help you, even if it's alittle bit higher, if your
testosterone is also a littlebit higher.
It's all about that balance andthat ratio and then can help
you, even if it's a little bithigher, if your testosterone is
also a little bit higher.
It's all about that balance andthat ratio.
(15:42):
And then you know women as well.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Like we're talking about men mostly, but but women
get low in testosterone too, andwomen have estrogen and
testosterone imbalances as well,and so that's that's important
as well yeah, and I didn'trealize testosterone played such
a key role in like, um, likefor women, a lot, of, a lot of
factors and you know stuffrelated to like, like libido as
they get older and uh, just likea lot of the stuff related to
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morale and feeling vigorous andfeeling good, good about like,
feeling comfortable in theirskin, feeling.
You know a lot of importantthings.
So if there's any buddylistening to this, if it's a
woman, or hey man, if you'relistening to this and your
wife's a woman, or it hey man,if you're listening to this, and
your wife is having certainsymptoms, she's getting what
under her forties, close tomenopause age, and stuff.
I don't know.
I mean, I know I'm not theexpert here, dr James, but I
(16:27):
know that it plays a key role inwomen's wellbeing as well.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Yeah, oh for sure.
And those, those mental kind ofmental, emotional symptoms you
mentioned, those are the samefor men and women.
That's what testosterone does.
Men just have more testosteronereceptors so they need more,
you know, 10 times more thanwomen.
But it's so important so thatthat mood, that focus, that
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motivation, that you know libidofits in there too.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
All of that is testosterone driven in the body,
and especially in the brain.
Yeah, okay, here's a big one.
For a lot of business owners, alot of entrepreneurs I guess
maybe just all adults nowadaysis issues with cortisol, like
your cortisol levels, right?
I mean, they say that's astress hormone.
Is that accurate, dr J?
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Yeah, so cortisol is your stress hormone and cortisol
the one thing too like cortisolis good.
Yeah, so cortisol is yourstress hormone and cortisol the
one thing too like cortisol isgood.
Like, we want to have a stresshormone.
When a bear jumps out in frontof you when you're walking
through the forest, you wantyour cortisol level to spike so
that you can run away from thebear.
The problem is in our world.
Like you mentioned, our worldis so overstimulated and so
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stressed out that we're in thatmode all the time, and so
cortisol design that bear jumpsout in front of you.
You're walking through theforest, cortisol will push the
blood from your brain and fromyour body to your extremities so
that you can run away.
Problem is, when you're doingthat, you're not thinking
logically, you're running awayas fast as you can, and so all
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of these things.
That's why stress affects us,and stress is going to affect
your heart.
Stress is going to affect yourbrain and and slow down your
reasoning and and negativelyimpact your heart health,
because you're basically tryingto run away from the bear all
day long, and so that's whatcortisol does, and and cortisol
um, like I said, we, we it's asit drops it, you control so many
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things.
Drop.
Dropping cortisol, especiallyat night, is a good thing
because that's going to help ussleep and rest and recover and
lots of good things there.
It controls so many things thatare going on the body when,
when your cortisol is off, whenyour cortisol is elevated, your,
your body is in runaway fromthe bear mode.
It's not in the rest and relaxand repair mode, and so that is
a big driver for acceleratedaging, for, for, for
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inflammation that builds up andcauses heart issues and other
things over time.
So cortisol a big player there.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
Yeah, and so for people that have troubles
sleeping, do you think cortisolplays a big factor in that?
Speaker 1 (18:55):
For so many people.
It's a big, big factor.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
And you can test for that directly, right, like one
of the things you I think it'sthe saliva test that shows the
cortisol.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Yeah, yeah, so it's the saliva test, because your
cortisol does fluctuate duringthe day, naturally, right.
Your cortisol is supposed torise in the morning and help you
go and function in the morning,and then it slowly decreases
during the day morning and helpyou go and and function in the
morning, and then it slowlydecreases during the day.
And so if you do just a bloodtest for cortisol, you're not
going to know were you high orlow in the morning or night or
or, and that's why the salivatests were with multiple saliva
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samples during the day can giveus a picture of what that curve
looks like for you, of your riseand fall, so they can know.
Um, because some people youknow they might do a blood test
and their cortisol looks perfectin the afternoon, but where was
it in the morning?
They might've been spikingsuper crazy high, and so that's
why the saliva is the goldstandard for measuring cortisol,
and there there's also they doa urine 24 hour cortisol
(19:50):
collection.
That's going to just tell youyour total total cortisol, and
it might it might show up high,sure, but where was it high
total cortisol.
And it might it might show uphigh, sure, but where was it
high?
Was it high at night?
Was it high in the morning?
Um, and, and because you, youtreat both those differently.
Like you, if your cortisol ishigh is you're in the night it's
you're a very differenttreatment plan than for someone
who has cortisol's high in themorning, and so we need to.
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That's why the saliva, like Isaid, is the gold standard for
for seeing what, what yourcortisol levels do yeah, that
makes sense.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Uh, I'm coming up soon on on a, you know, redoing
my saliva test, my blood test,because when we first did it, uh
, my cortisol spike at night waspretty high, you know.
But I noticed since taking thesupplements you you recommended
for me, like the, the night andthe AM, the morning vitamins,
and then I really think too,optimizing my hormones, has
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helped, but the quality of mysleep has improved tremendously.
So if anyone's listening tothis number one, put your phone
away 30 minutes before bed,because we know those screens
stimulate that.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
And don't say Thank you for the warning.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Yeah, right and so.
But secondly, you got to get itchecked and so what do?
Yeah, like, what is somethingthat you recommend to an
individual with high cortisol?
Like what are the steps?
Supplements included, lifestylechanges what would you tell
somebody who has high cortisol?
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Yeah, because it's those cortisol patterns develop
over years, right.
So it's, even if you have asuper stressful day on the day
you do that, your saliva sampleit's not going to pick up very
differently than it would fromthe day before.
That might have been just achill day resting at home.
On the day you do that, yoursaliva sample it's not going to
pick up very differently than itwould from the day before.
That might have been just achill day resting at home on the
weekend kind of thing, becausethose patterns are kind of
hardwired over over decades fora lot of for most people, and so
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, um, so yeah, it kind ofdepends on on where you're high,
where you're low and kind ofwhat that looks like.
Um, sometimes people are high inthe morning and they crash in
the afternoon, they're highagain at night, and so anyway,
there's all different kind ofprotocols, um, but there's
definitely lifestyle things thatwe need to connect.
There's, um, you know, sleephabits, sleep hygiene ideas that
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can help to bring cortisol downat night.
Like you mentioned, turning offyour phone, um, cuddling with
your wife is a good way to lowercortisol at night, and so
there's lots of different waysto show just simple things that
can reestablish that healthycortisol balance.
It's not like a magic one pillthat suddenly you take a pill
(22:17):
and you're good.
No, you're going to slowlyretrain that cortisol pathway to
get back on track over time.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Okay, okay, yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
I mean I'm sure phones is the biggest one for
most people and just screens andin general, yeah, yeah.
Um and then another another bigone is people will have their
phone charging next to my phoneis charging, but their phone
charging next to their head,next to their bed, um, and
that's another big problem too,because when your phone is
plugged in there's so much moreyou know EMFs and and, and you
(22:52):
know radiation that's coming offof your phone while it's
actually charging.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Yeah, that's a good point.
That's a really good point.
Okay, so touched ontestosterone, estrogen, cortisol
.
We want to talk about insulintoo, because I think you told me
correct me if I'm wrong do youtell me insulin is the most
important hormone in the body.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Depending on the time of day I might think
differently.
But yes, insulin controls somuch of how you feel on a
day-to-day basis but also howyou age over the years to come.
So insulin is one of thebiggest things when that gets
off track, when, when you haveinsulin resistance, it's what
leads to so many of the problems.
It's one of the biggest rootcause, uh problems for for
(23:39):
health in general, kind ofacross the board.
In the united states, 94 94% ofAmericans are metabolically
sick with insulin resistance.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Wow, that is crazy, and I can guess why.
But let's look quickly.
I think most people know whatinsulin is, but if someone
doesn't fully know, I want tojust give a simple explanation.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
So, and the reason why people don't know about it
is because conventional medicinenever checks it as well.
So because, um, they know, weknow that insulin is connected
with their blood sugars and so,even if you always get your
yearly physical from your doctor, they'll look at your blood
sugars and be like, oh, yourblood sugars are fine, um, but
they need to look at yourinsulin because that's the more
important thing, um cause.
Perfect example I had a guyyesterday come in.
(24:25):
He's been tracking his bloodsugars.
I've been trying to let himknow hey, things are off here
with this insulin resistance.
And so he's like, okay, we canget a blood sugar monitor.
And so he did.
He ran it for two weeks.
His blood sugars were not bad,but he was just so inflamed he's
just been so not feeling good.
I'm like we need to actuallymeasure your insulin, because
(24:45):
blood sugars will do one thing,but if your insulin still stays
high, then that's what insulinresistance is is when insulin is
not absorbing or insulin.
The insulin signaling is slow,so insulin is high in the
bloodstream, which is a muchbigger problem than having blood
sugars that are high and high,um and so cause, that happens
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over time.
So so insulin being off is kindof like the pre pre diabetes,
and the problem can be just asbad, even with perfect blood
sugars, than not.
So, like this guy, like I said,his blood sugars looked great,
but you know he was sick and I'msure he came in this morning
and so I'll see his bloodtomorrow and see what his
insulin was, and I'm sure thatit's going to be out of control.
(25:28):
Um, cause that that insulin isis the controller switch for
your metabolism.
It controls whether you burnfat or you burn carbs, and so
like well, I'll talk to peoplelike like the yesterday.
He's like I'm not eatinganything, I'm hardly eating any
food and I still can't loseweight.
I'm like, well, because yourinsulin is stuck in sugar
(25:51):
burning mode and and you'renever going to burn fat when
your insulin is elevated.
Um, so anyway, there's andthere's so many problems with
with aging and inflammation orconnecting back with that same
pathway.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
So yeah, and I mean, you see how many people nowadays
are, uh, pre-diabetic or theydevelop type 2 diabetes.
Uh, so let's, let's talk to theviewers right now.
If somebody wants to avoidbecoming insulin resistant, what
should they do?
Because you just said thatcauses a host of health issues
(26:19):
down the road, right?
Um, so what should they do toavoid becoming insulin resistant
and developing all those healthailments that are preventable?
Speaker 1 (26:29):
yeah.
So, um, yeah, there's lots, lotsof things um, the definitely I
would get your numbers checkedis is one of the big things.
And so then you can take thatnumber, take your fasting
insulin number and they they cantake your blood sugar number
and you can throw it in acalculator called the HOMA IR
calculator.
That's H-O-M-A, dash I-R I mean.
(26:50):
Go online and find those.
So HOMA IR calculator, put inyour fasting insulin and your
glucose score.
If you have your A1C, justtranslate your A1C into your
average glucose and it will giveyou a score on how bad your
insulin resistance is, and sothe lower the number, the better
.
Insulin resistance starts at1.9 on that scale and then 2.9
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is significant insulinresistance, and so a lot of
times people think that theirblood sugars are just fine and
we put the numbers in thosecalculators and shows that their
insulin resistance is throughthe roof.
And so, first off, knowing howbad your insulin resistance is
is important, um, and we do that.
And if you're, if yourconventional doctor is not
running fasting insulin for you,um, fire them and go to a
(27:34):
doctor who will, um, because ifa doctor doesn't understand the
importance of fasting insulin,um, that means they're working
for the insurance companies, notfor you.
And so, as nice of a person asthey probably are, go find
someone else and then you wantto make sure that.
So, anyway, that's the firststep, knowing how bad your
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insulin resistance is.
Second step is your muscle.
Your muscle mass in general isthe number one control or the
number one metabolism booster inyour body and it uses the most
insulin and uses the most sugar.
So you need to be buildingmuscle, even at any age.
So my grandma's 86 she'shanging out with me this week at
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home, um, because she's in townfor some other family things um
, but they did a study thatwomen in their 80s that had
never done any resistancetraining and they put them on a
simple resistance trainingprogram.
All these 80 year old women,and all of them gain muscle.
All of them built muscle with asimple resistance protocol,
resistance training protocol.
So even my grandma, at 86, shestill doesn't follow my
(28:40):
recommendations because she's 86and does whatever she wants,
but if she wanted to, she couldbuild muscle.
So there's no excuse for anyoneto not be able to build muscle.
So, because that's step numberone, you need to start building
muscle, because that will startsoaking up the sugar and start
improving that insulin response.
So that's key.
And then you need to controlyour meals.
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Time your meal planning, getyour protein in.
No snacking between meals,avoid anyway.
There's lots of other littledetails that get thrown in there
, but that's step number one, um, and probably another.
Another one to throw in is atthe end of the day, after you're
done eating, go for a 20 minutewalk and then don't eat or
drink anything until your nextmeal the next day we can spend a
(29:22):
whole hour talking about allthose other details, but yeah,
no, those are great tips, youknow, and people think like
building muscle is just forpeople who want to look big and
buff, you know, but that's nottrue.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
you build lean muscle , uh, so that you can do what dr
j is talking about improve yourmetabolism, improve your
insulin sensitivity, I mean.
There's just so many benefitsthat come from adding muscle to
your frame and for anyonelistening to this, it's really
(29:53):
hard to get big and bulky Like.
It takes a lot of dedication.
There's a lot of, you know, alot of heavy lifting, a lot of
eating, meaning you got to eat acalorie surplus.
And it's not just going tohappen accidentally, it's
intentional.
So for anyone listening to this,if you're not doing resistance
training minimum of three daysper week, like Dr J just
mentioned.
You've got to get in the gym Ifyou don't know what workouts to
(30:13):
do or you need help andaccountability.
That's what we're here for.
So go to unstoppable365.com.
We have a bunch of differentplans that people can sign up
for and get you in the gym, getyou consistently working out.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
Yeah, I was trying to find a quote that I saw on
social media just the other daybut I thought I saved it but I
couldn't find it.
But it talked about going tothe gym today is your insurance
policy versus ending up in awheelchair when you're 80.
And so you've got to buildmuscle.
The data is so clear.
The more muscle you can buildat any age, the better your
quality of life, the better yourmetabolism, the slower you're
(30:51):
going to age.
Everything across the boardgets better by building muscle.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
And kind of like to go back towhat we're talking about with
hormones in general.
You know working out helps yourhormones naturally to balance
themselves out to an extent.
Right, you know you're notgoing to replace all the
testosterone you need by workingout, but it definitely will
help.
But that's also a reason tooptimize your hormones by doing
(31:19):
a blood test or working withsomebody like Dr J, because then
it becomes a lot easier foryour body to build muscle right
like real quick.
Let's touch on that for guysthat are super low in
testosterone levels, dr j it'sharder for them to build muscle
right, absolutely yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
And so I just a guy, a client, came to my mind.
Um, he's one of our local guys.
So I just saw him in officemonday, he was here, and so he
told me, like he was, he was,he's a guy, he's entrepreneur,
he's like go go, go, his, hisbusiness.
He's about 13 to 15 million ayear.
So he's doing awesome withbusiness.
He's expanding, growing and hehe's one of those guys that you
(31:59):
know he was doing 75 hard, youknow five times in a row type of
thing, and so, but he was stillyou know 28 in a row type of
thing and so but he was stillyou know 28 body, 29 body fat, I
think is where he was and hecould never build muscle and he
was still kind of like.
He was like during the day,mentally he's like go go, go,
entrepreneur.
But then physically he was justcrashing at night when he got
home like he couldn't build amuscle, he couldn't feel
(32:20):
anything.
So we did the foundational stuff, like we talked about
supplements with video numberone, we did the supplements.
We got him on testosterone, weand he hadn't even started
peptides yet, but it's justgetting those few basic things
dialed in six percent drop inbody fat in six weeks.
Suddenly, everything clicked in.
So you know, getting yournutrition, which we'll talk more
(32:41):
about nutrition, that's gonnabe our next, our next episode,
more about deeper dive intonutrition.
But getting your supplementsdialed in, getting your hormones
optimized, everything is goingto work better.
And so it doesn't do you anygood to go buy $3,000 to $3,000
of peptides off of some randomwebsite online if you don't have
your basic nutritional levelsunder control and your basic
(33:05):
hormone levels optimized.
And so, like I said so, ourclient I just mentioned, he's
getting ready.
He's gonna have a killer beforeand after for us.
Um, so he's super awesome, um,and that's just gonna be, you
know, a few weeks away, becausehe's already killing it and he's
just then.
He says he's doing so good, wethrew the peptides on top to
accelerate his results even more, so he's gonna be doing awesome
(33:25):
.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
So yeah, no, that is awesome.
I mean, the foundationdefinitely is, you know your
habits with fitness andnutrition, but then from there
there's there's so many levelsthat you can hit and if
someone's watching this orlistening right now, dr jay and
I did an episode about peptidesuh, I think a week or two ago,
so you can find that either onYouTube or on my Facebook page
(33:48):
as well as, like, putting allthe pieces together and how to
put fitness nutrition.
You know, getting your hormonesbalanced, supplements that's
what we did.
We did the supplement one firstin the blood work, but how to
put all the pieces together.
There's a couple episodes likethat and so so, yeah, people
think like I'm just going totake peptides or I'm just going
(34:08):
to do this, and that's not theway it works.
These things are supplemental.
You know meaning they're inaddition to what you should be
doing.
But, like Dr J just shared witha client he's working with, if
your hormones are off, you'regoing to feel like, no matter
what you do, you can't get tothat level you want to be at,
like the guy who was havingtrouble losing that extra body
(34:30):
fat.
I hear it from guys all thetime.
They're like I got this littlepouch on my tummy.
I can't lose it.
You know I'm working out anddoing all this stuff and it's
probably what eithertestosterone is low, estrogen is
high or both, or something'sgoing on yeah always making it
yeah yeah, you gotta do theblood test, you gotta do the
work with dr j to be able to seewhat's taking place, you know,
(34:50):
uh, in internally and then youcan fix it and remedy it.
So, um again, dude, this is areally really good um episode,
dr j and all the stuff we'resharing, I mean, these are the
things that you've shared withme and our clients that have
made a huge change in my lifeand radically transform our
clients' lives.
So, if someone's listening, youcan comment on this video, you
(35:11):
can go to unstoppable365.com,you can reach out to me and Dr J
on our social media channelsand if you have questions,
please ask us.
That's what we're here for andwe want to help you get results
and live the healthiest, mostoptimal life possible.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
So thanks for being here.
Speaker 2 (35:26):
Dr Jay, Is there anything else you want to share
before we wrap this episode up?
Speaker 1 (35:29):
So yeah, I just want to because, talking about
results, we were on our men'scall for our men's group
yesterday.
We started talking about somepeptides and, yeah, the one guy
in the chat chimed in.
He's like, oh yeah, by the way,I'm down 90 pounds since
started working with us.
So if you want results likethat, we have a plan for you.
Let's figure out how tocustomize that for you and get
things dialed in.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
Yeah, absolutely, let's go.
All right, man, I'll see yousoon.
I'll talk to you soon.
Thank you for your time.
All right, thanks, sean.
We're working with people that want to be
superhuman unstoppable, and wewant your testosterone to be at
that range where you can besuperhuman.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Exactly so if someone's listening to this and
you're lacking motivation drive,your morale is down.
Like a lot of the guys we talkto, they feel they have brain
fog or they feel borderlinedepressed.
They're like dude, I just don'tfeel the way I want to feel.
The way I want to feel.
(00:35):
I am back with the man, Dr J,and this mini series that we're
doing together is officiallytitled everything that I'm
taking to become superhuman withDr J, and today we're going to
be talking about hormones.
So, dr J, what hormones are wegoing to be talking about
hormones?
So, dr j, what hormones aregoing to be touched on today?
Speaker 1 (00:46):
yeah, hormones are so important for what goes on in
the body.
Um, so we're going to talkabout just a few.
Uh, we want to talk abouttestosterone and testosterone
and estrogen balance,particularly for men.
You know most of our listenersare men on your podcast and my
podcast, both um.
So testosterone, cortisol,which is your stress hormone,
(01:06):
and insulin, which is a majormetabolism controlling hormone.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Yeah, and so, like you said, for guys, they hear
about TRT, everyone's talkingabout TRT and most people think
it's just like a steroid, likeyou're going to take it and get
super jacked in the gym and haveabs and it's going to be easy
to get results and number one.
That's not the case.
But since I met you about whata year and a half ago and
(01:33):
started working with you, you'veeducated me a lot on
testosterone alone, not just allthe hormones, and how
intertwined everything is in thebody.
But one of the things thatreally caught my attention is
like, sean, if your hormones arenot optimized, your cells can't
be optimized, meaning, if yourhormones are off, it's what it's
(01:54):
impossible for your cells tofunction optimally and that's
going to lead to all kinds ofthings down the road.
When you told me that, I waslike wow, you know, and you
explained to me that yourcognition and things like even
like cancer, alzheimer's,dementia, all these different
things that develop in people asthey get older these ailments
are somewhat preventable or arepreventable if your hormones are
(02:17):
dialed in Right.
So I started on TRT personallyprobably a year ago.
Started on TRT personallyprobably a year ago and before I
took my test with you, Ithought I felt pretty damn good,
and that's when you explainedto me you go, look, you're in
the gym working out, you'remotivated.
I get that, but a lot of otherhealth factors are dependent on
(02:38):
your hormones being balanced.
So that's when we looked attestosterone, we looked at
estrogen, we looked at mycortisol levels, we looked at my
insulin sensitivity, and so,since working with you and
addressing those things, myhealth has definitely improved.
Things like my sleep, myrecovery.
Yeah, my strength in the gymhas gone up.
Yeah, my results from all thework I put in the gym have
(03:02):
improved.
But it's all those other thingslike your focus, your morale.
So let's explain that to likesomebody who's watching this
right now and they've heard allthe buzz about testosterone or
hormones in general.
Where do you want?
to start, because I think we geta lot of questions where people
are fearful of TRT or hormonalreplacement therapy.
(03:22):
So let's kind of break down whyhormones are so important first
of all.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Yeah, because hormones are controlling what's
going on inside your body andthe reason why people are
fearful is because there's somuch bad information out there
from the conventional medicalworld, which has terrible
information on so many things.
But then also there's lots ofreally bad examples.
Like you brought up steroidsand anabolic steroids and people
(03:48):
think that is what testosteronereplacement is.
Um, which is very, verydifferent.
There's, there's two completelydifferent things Um yo.
So, yes, you can actually usethe same testosterone that that
you're taking for testosteronereplacement and use a like
anabolic steroid in in supraphysiologic doses so that's like
beyond normal doses and get, uh, excessive muscle growth and
(04:09):
things like that the same typeof results you can get from an
anabolic steroid.
But an anabolic steroid isdifferent than testosterone
because an anabolic steroid has,has been chemically changed
testosterone or chemicallychanged dht or another you know
hormone chemically changed andaltered to be 10 to 100 to 1000
times stronger than normaltestosterone.
(04:29):
So when we're doingtestosterone replacement, we
want to do testosterone, actualtestosterone, the same
testosterone your body wants tomake and does make.
We're just giving to that in aone to one more of that cue
that's called bioidenticaltestosterone, and so very
different effects than somethinglike a Winstroll or a
(04:50):
Decadurabolin or anyway.
There's lots of anabolicsteroids that are, like I said,
100 to 1,000 times stronger thantestosterone and because of
that, they're 100 to 1,000 timesmore likely to cause problems,
and people think those problemsare the same things that come up
with actual testosteronereplacement, which is not true.
Two, two completely differentthings, two completely different
goals that we're trying toachieve, um, when we're doing
(05:13):
those therapies.
So I think that's the biggestone is, you know, the, the,
basically the jim bro medicinethat talks about the anabolic
steroids and then conventionalmedicine.
Because of that, they're afraidof that as well.
They're afraid of testosterone.
They don't know how toprescribe it, they don't know
how to recommend it or work inthe readings, because of just
the bad information that's outthere.
And so it definitely makessense that people are afraid and
(05:34):
don't understand, becausereally all of the information
out there that's commonlyavailable is is just poor
quality information yeah, andyou shared something with me the
other day specifically aboutTRT.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
I forgot what you called it the black box label,
or there was a certain term youused, but can you share that new
research that's come out aboutTRT?
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Yeah, so with medication, sometimes
medications have a warning labelthat when they get approved
they're like this is approved,but there's also a warning with
it and that's called a black boxlabel.
Um, and different medicationshave had over overtime um, but
for testosterone, um, they had ablack box warning for
cardiovascular health, and sothat means when testosterone got
(06:15):
approved by the fda, they saidthere's they, they were worried
about the cardiovascular effectsand the negative possibilities
with that um, and that was, youknow, back in the 90s or
whenever that officially camethrough late 80s, and so that
black box warning has been there, that linking testosterone with
cardiovascular health problems.
But the data was sooverwhelming in fact so
(06:39):
overwhelming, showing thattestosterone was beneficial for
cardiovascular health that justwithin the last month or so
since we're doing this recording, they had to remove that black
box warning because no longercould they say that science
showed that taking testosteroneincreased any type of
cardiovascular risk events, andso that was a huge step for
(07:01):
testosterone replacement therapyin general, because it's very
rare that the FDA will remove ablack box warning like that
unless, like I said, the dataand the science has to be so
overwhelming that it shows that.
And, like I said, it'soverwhelming.
What is it called?
Speaker 2 (07:16):
A black box.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Yeah, a black box warning, because most
prescriptions come in a box andthey have a little like black
warning label on it for the, forthe pharmacists.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
So yeah, well, that's crazy too.
Like you said, the fda veryseldom is gonna reverse one of
those warnings, so the theresearch and evidence must have
been just so definitive, youknow, so overwhelming, and you,
you know.
So that's one of the things islike people always have these
concerns about testosterone.
So cardiovascular issues is one.
(07:46):
You know what's another,another one that we hear often.
Well, a lot of doctors, like Italked to guys and they go to
the doctor and theirtestosterone is at 300.
And the doctor goes oh well,you're somewhat within range,
like, you're good.
I've even heard people like andso let's clear that up for
anyone listening to this if theywant to have a good life, like,
(08:08):
they want to feel good, theywant to age properly or not age
right, they want to.
They want to have their health100 optimized.
Where, where should a man'stestosterone be?
Speaker 1 (08:20):
right, yeah, there's a very big difference between
normal on a normal lab value andoptimal on a lab value, and so
that's really what we need todiscuss, because how lab
companies come up with thatnormal range is they take 10,000
samples of all the men thatgive blood and then they're like
, oh, this is what the averagebell curve looks like, and so
that's what they determine asnormal, when really the majority
(08:42):
of men that go and get theirblood work done are older men
that are sick and overweight andmetabolically not healthy high
blood pressure, heart diseasewhich is why that bell curve is
so skewed down low.
But when we look at the studiesof men that are healthy, that
are optimized, that are buildingmuscle, they have the best
brain health, the best hearthealth, the you know,
functioning overall, the bestmoods.
(09:04):
Their testosterone range isbetween 800 and 1200, and so
that's the optimal range andthen that's the and the studies
then back it up and show thatmen are between that between 800
and 1200, have less heartattacks, they have less strokes,
they have less alzheimer'sdisease, they have less cancer,
they have, you know, bettersexual function, better sex
(09:25):
lives, better moods, betterattitudes, better memory kind of
all the things kind of acrossthe board that we're looking for
.
Less aches and pains.
All the things happen with menin that testosterone level of
eight to 1200.
And so that's where it is, andso that's what we shoot for.
Like, we don't want people tobe normal that we work with.
We're working with people thatwant to be superhuman,
(09:45):
unstoppable, and we we want yourtestosterone to be at that
range where, where you can be,yeah, superhuman and unstoppable
exactly so.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
If someone's listening to this and you're
lacking motivation drive, yourmorale is down.
Like a lot of the guys we talkto, they feel they have brain
fog or they feel borderlinedepressed.
They're're like dude, I justdon't feel the way I want to
feel.
And they notice like this kindof drastic change when they get
to what their late 30s 40sChances are.
(10:16):
Your testosterone something'soff.
We can test that.
You know Dr J can test you tosee where your testosterone
levels are at.
So they can go tounstoppable365.com, they can
reach out to one of usindividually through Messenger,
through one of our social mediaplatforms.
But definitely get the testbecause at least you'll see
(10:37):
where you're at and then fromthere, if you do need help with
your hormones, dr J is the manto see, and so let's kind of use
that as a segue or let's justanything else you wanna-.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Well, yeah, let's one last thing on that.
By the time you start to noticethat decline, like you notice
you know a lot of guys aretalking about the late thirties
when they start to notice it, bythe time you notice it, that
means you've probably been lowfor five to seven years and just
slowly catching up to you.
So I did, and this is what Ilearned from from my good friend
now going on, however manyyears ago, since I was 27, when
(11:10):
I was in medical, finishing upmedical school, and at his
office and he's ran mytestosterone and he's like
you're at 536, 27,.
You need to be higher.
And I was like what are youtalking about?
I'm, I'm, I'm good, right, Ihadn't, I hadn't learned
everything yet.
And um started on testosteronewhen I was 27 and taking a
pretty consistently since then.
Of course, I always forgetevery now and then, um, cause
(11:31):
doctors are the worst patients,um, and I'm my own worst patient
a lot of times, um.
But so if you, if you arestarting to notice the signs, if
you're starting to wonder ifthat you might be low in
testosterone, you should havegot your labs checked two years
ago.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
So so today's, you know you can't go back in time
two years ago, but today is aday you can get that checked, so
yeah, and something I will addto a lot of guys go to like
men's ageless clinic or otherdoctors, and these companies are
starting to charge a lot fortestosterone.
Maybe is that because they wantto make more money, dr j, or
(12:08):
yeah, yeah.
So what I will say, withoutgoing too in depth, is uh, dr J
is priced in a way that's veryaffordable for people and it's
the best value that I've seenout there compared to any other
option.
So don't procrastinate, man.
If you're listening to this,you got to get your TRT checked.
(12:28):
Go to unstoppable365.com.
Navigate the website.
You'll find how to take Ibelieve it's on there right, how
to get access to the TRT test,the hormone test.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Yep.
So yeah, it shouldn't be toohard to find, especially since
we're updating our website to beeven more user-friendly in the
next week or so.
But yeah, and then, just onthat too, like it's definitely
kind of scary with how easy itis to get testosterone online
and you might meet with a doctorprovider once and they might
prescribe it.
And then I've talked to guyswho have gone multiple years
without ever talking to anotherdoctor or ever getting their
(13:00):
labs done afterwards to verifythat they're at a good, healthy
level for their testosterone.
And so this is also a warningfor you guys that are out there
listening If you are ontestosterone from an online
clinic because there's lots ofthem and they're not checking on
you, they're not verifying thatyou're in a good range, they're
(13:21):
not checking your other markersthat need to be checked.
Um, you go somewhere that's atleast going to pay attention to
you and cares and not justtrying to collect your money all
the time.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
So yeah, yeah that's crazy, like I do my blood work,
especially checking into your,my testosterone, estrogen, every
three months and then doing thedeeper dive you know know what
once a year at the least, to seehow my overall body, my
biomarkers, my health isadapting, changing, improving.
So let's segue into justbriefly, before we talk about
(13:48):
cortisol and insulin, I want totouch on estrogen because one of
the things that happened when Igot my test was my estrogen was
actually really low, which yousaid was good, the ratio to
estrogen and testosterone.
But as you take testosterone,the estrogen can start to creep
up and that can affect health,right, it can affect your.
(14:09):
We have a special guest herereal quick.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Preston making his appearance normal.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
So can you briefly explain, like I thought estrogen
was more relevant to women, butevery men and women have, you
know, testosterone, they haveestrogen.
So can you explain to theviewers like why estrogen is
important, what kind of roles itplays with health and what they
got to do there?
Speaker 1 (14:38):
important, uh, what kind of roles it plays with
health and what.
What they got to do there.
Yeah, yeah, and it and it is.
It is important, um, andthere's.
Just like women havetestosterone, men need estrogen
too, um, and it's a need.
You can't to suppress yourestrogen completely and think
you're gonna feel good.
Um, for men, estrogen isimportant for Moods, it's
important for libido, it'simportant for bone health,
important for moods, it'simportant for libido, it's
important for bone health,important for brain health lots
(14:58):
of different things but it needsto be in the right balance and
ratio with testosterone.
So we want somewhere around a20 to 1 ratio of testosterone to
estrogen on your labs.
But there's sometimes too, issome guys do better with a
little bit higher estrogen, andso it's all about you and what
your body's telling us and howyou're feeling and how we can
(15:22):
optimize you.
Because I've even seen somestudies recently I've been a
little bit looser on someestrogen control for guys that
don't have any symptoms thatestrogen is good for the heart
and can help you, even if it's alittle bit higher, if your
testosterone is also a littlebit higher.
It's all about that balance andthat ratio and then can help
you, even if it's a little bithigher, if your testosterone is
also a little bit higher.
It's all about that balance andthat ratio.
(15:42):
And then you know women as well.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Like we're talking about men mostly, but but women
get low in testosterone too, andwomen have estrogen and
testosterone imbalances as well,and so that's that's important
as well yeah, and I didn'trealize testosterone played such
a key role in like, um, likefor women, a lot, of, a lot of
factors and you know stuffrelated to like, like libido as
they get older and uh, just likea lot of the stuff related to
(16:04):
morale and feeling vigorous andfeeling good, good about like,
feeling comfortable in theirskin, feeling.
You know a lot of importantthings.
So if there's any buddylistening to this, if it's a
woman, or hey man, if you'relistening to this and your
wife's a woman, or it hey man,if you're listening to this, and
your wife is having certainsymptoms, she's getting what
under her forties, close tomenopause age, and stuff.
I don't know.
I mean, I know I'm not theexpert here, dr James, but I
(16:27):
know that it plays a key role inwomen's wellbeing as well.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Yeah, oh for sure.
And those, those mental kind ofmental, emotional symptoms you
mentioned, those are the samefor men and women.
That's what testosterone does.
Men just have more testosteronereceptors so they need more,
you know, 10 times more thanwomen.
But it's so important so thatthat mood, that focus, that
(16:53):
motivation, that you know libidofits in there too.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
All of that is testosterone driven in the body,
and especially in the brain.
Yeah, okay, here's a big one.
For a lot of business owners, alot of entrepreneurs I guess
maybe just all adults nowadaysis issues with cortisol, like
your cortisol levels, right?
I mean, they say that's astress hormone.
Is that accurate, dr J?
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Yeah, so cortisol is your stress hormone and cortisol
the one thing too like cortisolis good.
Yeah, so cortisol is yourstress hormone and cortisol the
one thing too like cortisol isgood.
Like, we want to have a stresshormone.
When a bear jumps out in frontof you when you're walking
through the forest, you wantyour cortisol level to spike so
that you can run away from thebear.
The problem is in our world.
Like you mentioned, our worldis so overstimulated and so
(17:36):
stressed out that we're in thatmode all the time, and so
cortisol design that bear jumpsout in front of you.
You're walking through theforest, cortisol will push the
blood from your brain and fromyour body to your extremities so
that you can run away.
Problem is, when you're doingthat, you're not thinking
logically, you're running awayas fast as you can, and so all
(17:58):
of these things.
That's why stress affects us,and stress is going to affect
your heart.
Stress is going to affect yourbrain and and slow down your
reasoning and and negativelyimpact your heart health,
because you're basically tryingto run away from the bear all
day long, and so that's whatcortisol does, and and cortisol
um, like I said, we, we it's asit drops it, you control so many
(18:18):
things.
Drop.
Dropping cortisol, especiallyat night, is a good thing
because that's going to help ussleep and rest and recover and
lots of good things there.
It controls so many things thatare going on the body when,
when your cortisol is off, whenyour cortisol is elevated, your,
your body is in runaway fromthe bear mode.
It's not in the rest and relaxand repair mode, and so that is
a big driver for acceleratedaging, for, for, for
(18:43):
inflammation that builds up andcauses heart issues and other
things over time.
So cortisol a big player there.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
Yeah, and so for people that have troubles
sleeping, do you think cortisolplays a big factor in that?
Speaker 1 (18:55):
For so many people.
It's a big, big factor.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
And you can test for that directly, right, like one
of the things you I think it'sthe saliva test that shows the
cortisol.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Yeah, yeah, so it's the saliva test, because your
cortisol does fluctuate duringthe day, naturally, right.
Your cortisol is supposed torise in the morning and help you
go and function in the morning,and then it slowly decreases
during the day morning and helpyou go and and function in the
morning, and then it slowlydecreases during the day.
And so if you do just a bloodtest for cortisol, you're not
going to know were you high orlow in the morning or night or
or, and that's why the salivatests were with multiple saliva
(19:28):
samples during the day can giveus a picture of what that curve
looks like for you, of your riseand fall, so they can know.
Um, because some people youknow they might do a blood test
and their cortisol looks perfectin the afternoon, but where was
it in the morning?
They might've been spikingsuper crazy high, and so that's
why the saliva is the goldstandard for measuring cortisol,
and there there's also they doa urine 24 hour cortisol
(19:50):
collection.
That's going to just tell youyour total total cortisol, and
it might it might show up high,sure, but where was it high
total cortisol.
And it might it might show uphigh, sure, but where was it
high?
Was it high at night?
Was it high in the morning?
Um, and, and because you, youtreat both those differently.
Like you, if your cortisol ishigh is you're in the night it's
you're a very differenttreatment plan than for someone
who has cortisol's high in themorning, and so we need to.
(20:10):
That's why the saliva, like Isaid, is the gold standard for
for seeing what, what yourcortisol levels do yeah, that
makes sense.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Uh, I'm coming up soon on on a, you know, redoing
my saliva test, my blood test,because when we first did it, uh
, my cortisol spike at night waspretty high, you know.
But I noticed since taking thesupplements you you recommended
for me, like the, the night andthe AM, the morning vitamins,
and then I really think too,optimizing my hormones, has
(20:41):
helped, but the quality of mysleep has improved tremendously.
So if anyone's listening tothis number one, put your phone
away 30 minutes before bed,because we know those screens
stimulate that.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
And don't say Thank you for the warning.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Yeah, right and so.
But secondly, you got to get itchecked and so what do?
Yeah, like, what is somethingthat you recommend to an
individual with high cortisol?
Like what are the steps?
Supplements included, lifestylechanges what would you tell
somebody who has high cortisol?
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Yeah, because it's those cortisol patterns develop
over years, right.
So it's, even if you have asuper stressful day on the day
you do that, your saliva sampleit's not going to pick up very
differently than it would fromthe day before.
That might have been just achill day resting at home.
On the day you do that, yoursaliva sample it's not going to
pick up very differently than itwould from the day before.
That might have been just achill day resting at home on the
weekend kind of thing, becausethose patterns are kind of
hardwired over over decades fora lot of for most people, and so
(21:37):
, um, so yeah, it kind ofdepends on on where you're high,
where you're low and kind ofwhat that looks like.
Um, sometimes people are high inthe morning and they crash in
the afternoon, they're highagain at night, and so anyway,
there's all different kind ofprotocols, um, but there's
definitely lifestyle things thatwe need to connect.
There's, um, you know, sleephabits, sleep hygiene ideas that
(21:57):
can help to bring cortisol downat night.
Like you mentioned, turning offyour phone, um, cuddling with
your wife is a good way to lowercortisol at night, and so
there's lots of different waysto show just simple things that
can reestablish that healthycortisol balance.
It's not like a magic one pillthat suddenly you take a pill
(22:17):
and you're good.
No, you're going to slowlyretrain that cortisol pathway to
get back on track over time.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Okay, okay, yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
I mean I'm sure phones is the biggest one for
most people and just screens andin general, yeah, yeah.
Um and then another another bigone is people will have their
phone charging next to my phoneis charging, but their phone
charging next to their head,next to their bed, um, and
that's another big problem too,because when your phone is
plugged in there's so much moreyou know EMFs and and, and you
(22:52):
know radiation that's coming offof your phone while it's
actually charging.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Yeah, that's a good point.
That's a really good point.
Okay, so touched ontestosterone, estrogen, cortisol
.
We want to talk about insulintoo, because I think you told me
correct me if I'm wrong do youtell me insulin is the most
important hormone in the body.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Depending on the time of day I might think
differently.
But yes, insulin controls somuch of how you feel on a
day-to-day basis but also howyou age over the years to come.
So insulin is one of thebiggest things when that gets
off track, when, when you haveinsulin resistance, it's what
leads to so many of the problems.
It's one of the biggest rootcause, uh problems for for
(23:39):
health in general, kind ofacross the board.
In the united states, 94 94% ofAmericans are metabolically
sick with insulin resistance.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Wow, that is crazy, and I can guess why.
But let's look quickly.
I think most people know whatinsulin is, but if someone
doesn't fully know, I want tojust give a simple explanation.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
So, and the reason why people don't know about it
is because conventional medicinenever checks it as well.
So because, um, they know, weknow that insulin is connected
with their blood sugars and so,even if you always get your
yearly physical from your doctor, they'll look at your blood
sugars and be like, oh, yourblood sugars are fine, um, but
they need to look at yourinsulin because that's the more
important thing, um cause.
Perfect example I had a guyyesterday come in.
(24:25):
He's been tracking his bloodsugars.
I've been trying to let himknow hey, things are off here
with this insulin resistance.
And so he's like, okay, we canget a blood sugar monitor.
And so he did.
He ran it for two weeks.
His blood sugars were not bad,but he was just so inflamed he's
just been so not feeling good.
I'm like we need to actuallymeasure your insulin, because
(24:45):
blood sugars will do one thing,but if your insulin still stays
high, then that's what insulinresistance is is when insulin is
not absorbing or insulin.
The insulin signaling is slow,so insulin is high in the
bloodstream, which is a muchbigger problem than having blood
sugars that are high and high,um and so cause, that happens
(25:07):
over time.
So so insulin being off is kindof like the pre pre diabetes,
and the problem can be just asbad, even with perfect blood
sugars, than not.
So, like this guy, like I said,his blood sugars looked great,
but you know he was sick and I'msure he came in this morning
and so I'll see his bloodtomorrow and see what his
insulin was, and I'm sure thatit's going to be out of control.
(25:28):
Um, cause that that insulin isis the controller switch for
your metabolism.
It controls whether you burnfat or you burn carbs, and so
like well, I'll talk to peoplelike like the yesterday.
He's like I'm not eatinganything, I'm hardly eating any
food and I still can't loseweight.
I'm like, well, because yourinsulin is stuck in sugar
(25:51):
burning mode and and you'renever going to burn fat when
your insulin is elevated.
Um, so anyway, there's andthere's so many problems with
with aging and inflammation orconnecting back with that same
pathway.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
So yeah, and I mean, you see how many people nowadays
are, uh, pre-diabetic or theydevelop type 2 diabetes.
Uh, so let's, let's talk to theviewers right now.
If somebody wants to avoidbecoming insulin resistant, what
should they do?
Because you just said thatcauses a host of health issues
(26:19):
down the road, right?
Um, so what should they do toavoid becoming insulin resistant
and developing all those healthailments that are preventable?
Speaker 1 (26:29):
yeah.
So, um, yeah, there's lots, lotsof things um, the definitely I
would get your numbers checkedis is one of the big things.
And so then you can take thatnumber, take your fasting
insulin number and they they cantake your blood sugar number
and you can throw it in acalculator called the HOMA IR
calculator.
That's H-O-M-A, dash I-R I mean.
(26:50):
Go online and find those.
So HOMA IR calculator, put inyour fasting insulin and your
glucose score.
If you have your A1C, justtranslate your A1C into your
average glucose and it will giveyou a score on how bad your
insulin resistance is, and sothe lower the number, the better
.
Insulin resistance starts at1.9 on that scale and then 2.9
(27:11):
is significant insulinresistance, and so a lot of
times people think that theirblood sugars are just fine and
we put the numbers in thosecalculators and shows that their
insulin resistance is throughthe roof.
And so, first off, knowing howbad your insulin resistance is
is important, um, and we do that.
And if you're, if yourconventional doctor is not
running fasting insulin for you,um, fire them and go to a
(27:34):
doctor who will, um, because ifa doctor doesn't understand the
importance of fasting insulin,um, that means they're working
for the insurance companies, notfor you.
And so, as nice of a person asthey probably are, go find
someone else and then you wantto make sure that.
So, anyway, that's the firststep, knowing how bad your
(27:54):
insulin resistance is.
Second step is your muscle.
Your muscle mass in general isthe number one control or the
number one metabolism booster inyour body and it uses the most
insulin and uses the most sugar.
So you need to be buildingmuscle, even at any age.
So my grandma's 86 she'shanging out with me this week at
(28:16):
home, um, because she's in townfor some other family things um
, but they did a study thatwomen in their 80s that had
never done any resistancetraining and they put them on a
simple resistance trainingprogram.
All these 80 year old women,and all of them gain muscle.
All of them built muscle with asimple resistance protocol,
resistance training protocol.
So even my grandma, at 86, shestill doesn't follow my
(28:40):
recommendations because she's 86and does whatever she wants,
but if she wanted to, she couldbuild muscle.
So there's no excuse for anyoneto not be able to build muscle.
So, because that's step numberone, you need to start building
muscle, because that will startsoaking up the sugar and start
improving that insulin response.
So that's key.
And then you need to controlyour meals.
(29:01):
Time your meal planning, getyour protein in.
No snacking between meals,avoid anyway.
There's lots of other littledetails that get thrown in there
, but that's step number one, um, and probably another.
Another one to throw in is atthe end of the day, after you're
done eating, go for a 20 minutewalk and then don't eat or
drink anything until your nextmeal the next day we can spend a
(29:22):
whole hour talking about allthose other details, but yeah,
no, those are great tips, youknow, and people think like
building muscle is just forpeople who want to look big and
buff, you know, but that's nottrue.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
you build lean muscle , uh, so that you can do what dr
j is talking about improve yourmetabolism, improve your
insulin sensitivity, I mean.
There's just so many benefitsthat come from adding muscle to
your frame and for anyonelistening to this, it's really
(29:53):
hard to get big and bulky Like.
It takes a lot of dedication.
There's a lot of, you know, alot of heavy lifting, a lot of
eating, meaning you got to eat acalorie surplus.
And it's not just going tohappen accidentally, it's
intentional.
So for anyone listening to this,if you're not doing resistance
training minimum of three daysper week, like Dr J just
mentioned.
You've got to get in the gym Ifyou don't know what workouts to
(30:13):
do or you need help andaccountability.
That's what we're here for.
So go to unstoppable365.com.
We have a bunch of differentplans that people can sign up
for and get you in the gym, getyou consistently working out.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
Yeah, I was trying to find a quote that I saw on
social media just the other daybut I thought I saved it but I
couldn't find it.
But it talked about going tothe gym today is your insurance
policy versus ending up in awheelchair when you're 80.
And so you've got to buildmuscle.
The data is so clear.
The more muscle you can buildat any age, the better your
quality of life, the better yourmetabolism, the slower you're
(30:51):
going to age.
Everything across the boardgets better by building muscle.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
And kind of like to go back towhat we're talking about with
hormones in general.
You know working out helps yourhormones naturally to balance
themselves out to an extent.
Right, you know you're notgoing to replace all the
testosterone you need by workingout, but it definitely will
help.
But that's also a reason tooptimize your hormones by doing
(31:19):
a blood test or working withsomebody like Dr J, because then
it becomes a lot easier foryour body to build muscle right
like real quick.
Let's touch on that for guysthat are super low in
testosterone levels, dr j it'sharder for them to build muscle
right, absolutely yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
And so I just a guy, a client, came to my mind.
Um, he's one of our local guys.
So I just saw him in officemonday, he was here, and so he
told me, like he was, he was,he's a guy, he's entrepreneur,
he's like go go, go, his, hisbusiness.
He's about 13 to 15 million ayear.
So he's doing awesome withbusiness.
He's expanding, growing and hehe's one of those guys that you
(31:59):
know he was doing 75 hard, youknow five times in a row type of
thing, and so, but he was stillyou know 28 in a row type of
thing and so but he was stillyou know 28 body, 29 body fat, I
think is where he was and hecould never build muscle and he
was still kind of like.
He was like during the day,mentally he's like go go, go,
entrepreneur.
But then physically he was justcrashing at night when he got
home like he couldn't build amuscle, he couldn't feel
(32:20):
anything.
So we did the foundational stuff, like we talked about
supplements with video numberone, we did the supplements.
We got him on testosterone, weand he hadn't even started
peptides yet, but it's justgetting those few basic things
dialed in six percent drop inbody fat in six weeks.
Suddenly, everything clicked in.
So you know, getting yournutrition, which we'll talk more
(32:41):
about nutrition, that's gonnabe our next, our next episode,
more about deeper dive intonutrition.
But getting your supplementsdialed in, getting your hormones
optimized, everything is goingto work better.
And so it doesn't do you anygood to go buy $3,000 to $3,000
of peptides off of some randomwebsite online if you don't have
your basic nutritional levelsunder control and your basic
(33:05):
hormone levels optimized.
And so, like I said so, ourclient I just mentioned, he's
getting ready.
He's gonna have a killer beforeand after for us.
Um, so he's super awesome, um,and that's just gonna be, you
know, a few weeks away, becausehe's already killing it and he's
just then.
He says he's doing so good, wethrew the peptides on top to
accelerate his results even more, so he's gonna be doing awesome
(33:25):
.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
So yeah, no, that is awesome.
I mean, the foundationdefinitely is, you know your
habits with fitness andnutrition, but then from there
there's there's so many levelsthat you can hit and if
someone's watching this orlistening right now, dr jay and
I did an episode about peptidesuh, I think a week or two ago,
so you can find that either onYouTube or on my Facebook page
(33:48):
as well as, like, putting allthe pieces together and how to
put fitness nutrition.
You know, getting your hormonesbalanced, supplements that's
what we did.
We did the supplement one firstin the blood work, but how to
put all the pieces together.
There's a couple episodes likethat and so so, yeah, people
think like I'm just going totake peptides or I'm just going
(34:08):
to do this, and that's not theway it works.
These things are supplemental.
You know meaning they're inaddition to what you should be
doing.
But, like Dr J just shared witha client he's working with, if
your hormones are off, you'regoing to feel like, no matter
what you do, you can't get tothat level you want to be at,
like the guy who was havingtrouble losing that extra body
(34:30):
fat.
I hear it from guys all thetime.
They're like I got this littlepouch on my tummy.
I can't lose it.
You know I'm working out anddoing all this stuff and it's
probably what eithertestosterone is low, estrogen is
high or both, or something'sgoing on yeah always making it
yeah yeah, you gotta do theblood test, you gotta do the
work with dr j to be able to seewhat's taking place, you know,
(34:50):
uh, in internally and then youcan fix it and remedy it.
So, um again, dude, this is areally really good um episode,
dr j and all the stuff we'resharing, I mean, these are the
things that you've shared withme and our clients that have
made a huge change in my lifeand radically transform our
clients' lives.
So, if someone's listening, youcan comment on this video, you
(35:11):
can go to unstoppable365.com,you can reach out to me and Dr J
on our social media channelsand if you have questions,
please ask us.
That's what we're here for andwe want to help you get results
and live the healthiest, mostoptimal life possible.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
So thanks for being here.
Speaker 2 (35:26):
Dr Jay, Is there anything else you want to share
before we wrap this episode up?
Speaker 1 (35:29):
So yeah, I just want to because, talking about
results, we were on our men'scall for our men's group
yesterday.
We started talking about somepeptides and, yeah, the one guy
in the chat chimed in.
He's like, oh yeah, by the way,I'm down 90 pounds since
started working with us.
So if you want results likethat, we have a plan for you.
Let's figure out how tocustomize that for you and get
things dialed in.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
Yeah, absolutely, let's go.
All right, man, I'll see yousoon.
I'll talk to you soon.
Thank you for your time.
All right, thanks, sean.
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