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The Dr. Hyman Show

How Your Sex Drive Is Influenced By Hormones, Diet, and Lifestyle

The Dr. Hyman Show

Dr. Mark Hyman

Nutrition, Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.59.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

View the Show Notes For This Episode Get Free Weekly Health Tips from Dr. Hyman Sign Up for Dr. Hyman’s Weekly Longevity Journal In our recent Health Bites episodes, we’ve delved into the research on how our dietary choices and lifestyle impact our hormones and sexual health. From disruption caused by our sugar-heavy diets to the stressors of modern life and invisible threats of environmental toxins, our hormones often bear the brunt of our daily decisions. The good news is that there are many things we can do to bring our hormones and sexual health back in balance.  Today, I'm delighted to bring back a standout Health Bites episode, which offers a brief overview of our sexual health series along with actionable strategies to enhance your sexual health, starting now. In this episode, I discuss: The biggest killer of sex drive (2:32) How sugar messes up our hormones (3:12) The link between insulin resistance, hormones, and sexual dysfunction (5:00) How dietary fat plays a crucial role in our sex hormones (6:40) Environmental toxins as a hormone disruptor and driver of sexual dysfunction (7:30) Strategies to activate your sex drive (9:23) Peptides for optimizing sexual function in men and women (11:13) This episode is brought to you by Rupa University and Momentous. Rupa University is hosting FREE classes and bootcamps for healthcare providers who want to learn more about Functional Medicine testing. Sign up at RupaUniversity.com. Head over to livemomentous.com/mark for 20% off creatine, collagen, and all of their best-in-class products.

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0:00.0

Coming up on this episode of the doctor's pharmacy.

0:02.7

All your sex hormones are made from fat.

0:04.9

They're made from cholesterol, in fact.

0:06.3

The building block for all sex hormones is cholesterol.

0:11.1

If you're a healthcare practitioner like I am, you know how hard it is to keep your medical

0:15.0

knowledge up to date, especially when it comes to functional and special lab testing.

0:19.5

You could spend a ton of time waiting

0:21.0

through the latest medical literature, but that can be hard to fit into an already busy schedule.

0:25.7

A better answer is Rupa University. Rather than spending countless hours combing through reports,

0:30.7

Rupa University hosts both six-week deep-dive boot camps and free training sessions every week

0:36.0

led by experts in the industry who provide an

0:38.4

up-to-date overview of a lab, topic, or health concern. Rupa University is the number one educational

0:43.7

institute for Rooka's medicine with over 20,000 practitioners a year learning about functional

0:48.4

and specially lab testing. If you want to level up your knowledge of functional lab test, make sure to

0:52.7

visit Rupa University.com.

0:55.1

Now, a good diet is foundational of living a long, healthy life. But because our food just

0:59.4

isn't as nutritious as it once was, most of us have to supplement to get all the vitamins and

1:04.2

minerals we need. Unfortunately, finding a high quality, no-filler supplement used to be a real

1:08.5

challenge, but not anymore. That's why I choose Momentous. Their supplements are developed in collaboration with leading experts like Dr. Andrew Huberman and Andy Galpin. And I use by 90% of the teams in the NFL, as well as nearly 200 pro in college locker rooms. They're also committed to rigorous third-party testing and independent certification, which means the ingredients on the label are in the product,

1:27.7

and that's in.

1:28.6

And with no fillers or additives with Momentus, what you see is what you get.

1:32.9

I take Momentous collagen and creatine daily two supplements that work together to repair and power my body.

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