Beginner's Guide to TRT: Benefits, Risks, & Natural Alternatives Explained!
Mark Bell's Power Project
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🗓️ 21 July 2025
⏱️ 101 minutes
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Summary
Testosterone is the hormone every man thinks they understand, but most get wrong. In this episode of Mark Bell’s Power Project Podcast, hosts Mark Bell and Nsima Inyang learn from hormone expert Dave Lee as he breaks down everything you need to know about TRT (testosterone replacement therapy). From the benefits and risks of TRT to natural ways to boost your testosterone, this episode dives deep into the facts that every man should hear.
Discover how testosterone affects mental health, stress resilience, and energy. Learn why more young men are experiencing hormonal decline and what you can do to fight back. Dave Lee also uncovers the truth about weight loss, supplements, and lifestyle habits that make or break your testosterone levels. Whether you’re considering TRT or just want to optimize your health naturally, this is the podcast episode you’ve been waiting for.
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Chapters:
0:00 Testosterone's impact on mood, brain health, and stress
7:20 Natural ways to boost testosterone before TRT
11:20 Why younger men are facing hormonal decline
13:05 Obesity, weight loss, and permanent hormonal damage
16:30 Lifestyle habits that maximize TRT results
18:00 What hormone levels reveal about testicular health
21:15 Tips for shift workers to improve sleep and health
25:45 Alcohol: Balancing enjoyment and health risks
30:15 Holistic self-care to naturally improve testosterone
34:50 Dangerous supplements to avoid
36:20 Supplements that enhance health and performance
41:00 Essential nutrients for better health and energy
44:10 Vitamin D and CBD for immunity and well-being
48:40 CBDA for arthritis and inflammation relief
53:15 THC’s effects on hormones and sleep
57:55 Natural testosterone vs. injection-based production
1:02:50 Balanced hormones for better performance
1:09:00 Preparing for accurate hormone testing
1:12:20 New trends in testosterone treatments
1:17:10 Cream-based TRT for lower side effects
1:18:50 Weight loss injections and insulin resistance solutions
1:26:10 The importance of personalized TRT approaches
1:31:00 Testosterone's role in overcoming life’s challenges
1:35:40 Transitioning from heavy lifting to functional exercise
1:40:25 Free resources on hormone education
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | A lot of the time when people think about testosterone, they think about it purely as a performance |
| 0:03.6 | enhancing or like an anabolic agent. Testosterone has a lot of very interesting mechanisms in the bodies. It regulates all of the neurotransmission firing the way that it's supposed to. If someone's in a suboptimal testosterone state, they're going to be more systemically inflamed. The body's and be less healthy. When the body is less healthy, we make less dopamine. Not only does testosterone increase drive, but it also increases calmness. |
| 0:24.4 | If we can have this combination of this molecule that makes you more driven, forward, more |
| 0:28.5 | motivated, but then also give you something that at the same time allows you to stay cool, calm, |
| 0:33.5 | and collected under stress, that's a really good state for a man to be in. And sometimes people |
| 0:38.5 | might not know or understand, you don't just go to TRT clinic just for steroids. People need to be |
| 0:43.8 | patient, but I think the best thing that people can do is focus on nourishing the human body with |
| 0:48.0 | what it needs, which is essential vitamins and minerals, amino acids, with sunlight, with good sleep, |
| 0:52.8 | and then with good home-cooked nutrition. But you want to check all your hormones, because if other hormones are deficient, not only will that create issues with tolerating the optimal amount of testosterone. You're going to become overstimulated. You're not going to be able to sleep properly. You're not going to be able to focus your mind. So when we hijack this system, it's a really complex system. |
| 1:12.0 | Maybe permanent damage. |
| 1:13.4 | It would seem so, yes. |
| 1:14.9 | We were talking a little bit on our walk about testosterone and like testosterone brain, |
| 1:18.8 | sort of like what testosterone can do for the brain. |
| 1:21.1 | And maybe some people are unaware of maybe some of the positive. |
| 1:24.9 | Maybe we can get in some of the negative as well. |
| 1:26.8 | But what are some of the positives? |
| 1:28.2 | Like, what are some things that testosterone can do for somebody? |
| 1:31.4 | Yeah, so a lot of the time when people think about testosterone, they think about it |
| 1:34.6 | purely as a performance enhancing or like an anabolic agent. |
| 1:37.8 | And testosterone absolutely is anabolic. |
| 1:40.1 | And I'll come back to the term like anabolic androgenic steroid, which is what AAS is an abbreviation for. |
| 1:46.7 | And the part of testosterone that I think is best to look at from a mental standpoint is the more |
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