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#310 PEDs, Growth Hormone, and Insulin Tactics | Kurt Havens, Dave Tate's Table Talk

Dave Tate's Table Talk

Dave Tate

Fitness, Health & Fitness

4.9 • 586 Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2024

⏱️ 155 minutes

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Welcome Kurt Havens to Dave Tate's Table Talk podcast for the 310th episode.
 
Kurt Havens, 48, is a fitness coach and father of two with a passion for fitness since age 12. A former athlete, he placed in the top 100 in the Body For Life challenge, which launched his coaching career with EAS Supplements. After a break from the gym for family and career, he returned to fitness in his late 30s, began testosterone therapy, and saw renewed success in competitions.
 
 During the , he noticed the lack of reliable information on steroids and decided to pursue an MD/PhD in endocrinology to educate others. In 2023, he launched a social media presence, rapidly growing his coaching business. He continues to coach, create content, and study endocrinology.
 
 Kurt's IG: https://www.instagram.com/kurt.havens/ 

 


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Transcript

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0:00.0

it's not going to your organs.

0:01.9

So your liver, your kidneys, your lungs, your heart are not getting the support from your

0:06.3

body that they need because you've given your body this very strong signal that it needs

0:10.6

to go to muscle.

0:12.2

So if you were to stay on a huge amount of androgens for never mind, years, decades, that's

0:19.8

when you see organ damage, things to grow you know so it's

0:25.0

it's probably a wise idea for most guys to come back and the other thing is like you said if you if you

0:29.2

if you run a sort of gram a test all the time that's it becomes homeostasis your body's like this gram

0:34.1

is now normal right you're not going to get anything out of it at a certain point.

0:37.9

So it's, what do you do?

0:39.0

You've got to go up.

0:40.1

But you can only go up to a certain point before things fail.

0:42.9

Yeah.

0:48.5

Sit down, keep it real, and cut the bullshit.

0:52.5

Welcome to Table Talk.

0:54.4

All right, guys, we're back with another episode of Table Talk today.

0:58.0

Da, da, da, da, my guest is Kurt Havens.

1:01.2

And trying to figure out how to introduce you, right?

1:06.7

So you're a coach, science-backed health, physique development,

1:11.4

kind of what it says on your site.

1:12.8

We'll get into your origin story a little bit, so we'll fill in the gaps here.

1:16.4

But you first started coaching in a 96, founder of atomic life, husband, father of two,

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