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🗓️ 14 September 2025
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Most men think declining testosterone is just “part of aging”, but that’s a lie Big Pharma sold you. In this video, I break down exactly how I raised my testosterone in my 50s without injections, drugs, or TRT. These are the same biohacks I used to turn my energy, drive, and strength around, naturally. I’ll walk you through how your diet, your sleep, and even the light in your bedroom could be sabotaging your hormones. Want results? Start here.
Chapters:
0:00 – Introduction
1:40 – The Lie About Aging and Testosterone
2:49 – What’s Desatroying Your Testosterone Daily
3:42 – How Your Cells Actually Make Testosterone
4:58 – Why Diet is Step One (and What to Eat)
7:08 – The Most Underrated T Booster
8:38 – The Truth About Light and Hormones
14:40 – How to Fix It
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| 0:00.0 | We're raising the weakest generation of men in human history. |
| 0:04.0 | Not because of genetics, but because we've forgotten how to be biological males. |
| 0:09.0 | That's exactly where I was in my 20s. |
| 0:12.0 | I was tired, inflamed, overweight, 300 pounds overweight, and mentally stuck, even though I thought I was doing everything right. |
| 0:20.0 | So even though I was 26, I went to see |
| 0:22.5 | the first longevity doctor in Silicon Valley. I knew him because my parents saw him. And when he saw |
| 0:29.3 | my lap test, he said, Dave, your testosterone is lower than your mother. And he said, let's treat it. |
| 0:35.9 | He said, you can go in injections, but you may have to take these forever, |
| 0:39.5 | or you could just accept having man boobs, being fat, and tired all the time. And well, I said, okay. |
| 0:45.7 | And I went on testosterone therapy, and it changed my life. And there's a good chance that you might |
| 0:51.9 | need testosterone because we set the world up that way. |
| 0:56.2 | But you might decide to hack your biology instead and to do that first so that you don't |
| 1:01.3 | need testosterone as soon as you're going to need it. |
| 1:04.5 | And let's be clear. |
| 1:05.3 | If you want to live a very long time, once you hit your mid-40s, you're probably going to |
| 1:09.3 | need testosterone if you're a man and you're alive. |
| 1:12.2 | Today, the calendar thinks I'm 52. |
| 1:15.1 | My lab test think I'm 35, but my testosterone levels are higher now than they were when I was 25. |
| 1:24.0 | And in this video, I'm going to show you three of the biggest levers you can pull to raise your testosterone naturally and what to do without injections to raise your testosterone to get it to the point that you show up in your life the way you want to. |
| 1:37.3 | And this is because testosterone controls dopamine and dopamine controls your motivation to do things that matter in the world. |
| 1:45.8 | But when it comes to testosterone, most men don't realize when it starts. |
| 1:50.4 | There's a small dip in energy, the extra stubborn fat, the love handles, the fading drive in the gym, |
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