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In this video, we're going to talk about how to raise testosterone in men, okay?

So age, the aging process alone lowers testosterone.

By the time you hit 40 testosterone, it was on its way down.

It's at its peak at 18 years old, okay?

So and then what happens, a lot of people start taking bioidentical hormones.

The problem with taking bioidentical hormones is that it inactivates your own testicle and

adrenals that are supposed to make it, okay?

So we end up creating a problem with a shrinking testicle and an adrenal that becomes inactivated

if you take it too long.

The symptoms for low testosterone would be prostate enlargement.

Now, sometimes people will have this confusion and say that, well, I thought testosterone

causes a prostate enlargement and they're talking about a powerful form of testosterone

called DHT.

Well, first of all, if testosterone causes a prostate enlargement, then as you get older

and men have more incidence of prostate enlargement, then that does not correlate with the aging

process that lowers testosterone.

So really what happens, it's the lower testosterone that makes the estrogen become more.

It's the estrogen dominance in a male body that creates the enlargement of the prostate.

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