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Where Dr. Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing

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So, in this video, we're going to talk about another cause of low testosterone.

Now, in other videos, I talked about how high estrogen can inhibit testosterone.

High insulin will also shut down your testosterone.

This is very, very common.

High cortisol from stress can decrease testosterone.

If you're on a cholesterol medication, a statin, that can reduce testosterone because

you're not making the amounts of cholesterol needed to make that hormone.

It's a sex hormone and the precursor is cholesterol.

Being liver damage can lower your testosterone.

Being at a low fat diet can lower your testosterone, again, because of the cholesterol needed to

make that hormone.

And the symptoms produced would be low libido, impotence, erectile dysfunction, and even

atrophy of the testicles.

So here it is, high amounts of iron.

Now, what's interesting about iron is, as you age, you accumulate more and more iron.

Our body has a very difficult time getting rid of iron.

And so, if you're getting iron from a supplement or from the fortification of certain foods, like

in grains, breads, pasted, certain crackers, and things like that, you could be accumulating

way too much iron.

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