How Your Sex Drive Is Influenced By Hormones, Diet, and Lifestyle
The Dr. Hyman Show
Dr. Mark Hyman
4.6 • 8.7K Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2022
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
This episode is brought to you by ButcherBox and Athletic Greens.
Numerous factors can contribute to low sex drive and erectile dysfunction. What we eat and how we live also have an instrumental impact on our hormones. A high-sugar, refined-carbohydrate diet, caffeine, stress, hormones in the food supply, and estrogen-like toxins from pesticides, plastics, and pollution can all throw your hormones out of whack.
In today’s episode of my series I’m calling Health Bites, I am talking all about sex drive: the role hormones play, surprising things that kill your sex drive, and strategies you can implement today to boost it.
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Here are more details from the episode (audio version / Apple Subscriber version):
- The biggest killer of sex drive (4:04 / 00:36)
- How sugar and insulin resistance influence our hormones and libido (4:46 / 1:25)
- How leptin and cortisol influence sex drive (6:55 / 3:27)
- Low-fat diets and decreased sex drive (8:14 / 4:48)
- Environmental toxins and sexual function (9:07 / 5:40)
- Strategies to increase sex drive (10:55 / 7:28)
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on this episode of the doctor's pharmacy all your sex hormones are made from fat |
| 0:05.6 | They're made from cholesterol in fact the building block for all sex hormones is cholesterol |
| 0:12.2 | Hello, it's Dr. Mark one of today's episode sponsors is butcher box |
| 0:16.3 | And I'm always being asked how do I get enough high quality protein in my diet and where do I find it? |
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