So, guys, Derek Moore, plates more dates more days.com.

Today we're going to be talking about how much your testosterone levels actually decreased as you get older.

So there's a lot of misconceptions in the community about, you know, what your body can actually do, biology, what, you know, the endocrine system does as it downregulates as you get older.

I just want to lay it out because a lot of people have this misconception that you lose.

Once you get to like your 40s, they think, okay, you lose 1% every year.

And that's kind of like the number that's thrown around as, you know, fact.

But I just want to kind of lay out exactly what happens and what percentage on average people

actually lose.

So on the surface total

testosterone levels declined by 0.8 to 1.6% on average but the thing is that's not just where it ends

everyone looks at total testosterone oh if i have you know like a 900 nanogram per deciliter test level

it means i'm good to go no you want to know what your free T is and your sex hormone binding globulin,

because at the end of the day, this is what essentially is going to dictate what,

how much bioavailable testosterone is free to use in tissues.

If you have a bunch of total T, but it's all being bound up by SHBG and albumin,

it doesn't matter. If you have a low free,

you're going to not have enough usable tea by tissues to actually support physiological functions.

So even though your 0.8 to 1.6% decrease in total tea is substantial in itself,

there's an additional 1.6% increase in sex hormone binding globulin

per year.

So as you can imagine, this concurrent drop in total test with a concurrent increase in sex hormone

binding globuline which is further binding up that total T in your body, imagine what that's

...