Today on the exam room.

There's some things that America is number one and we should be proud of it.

But America is actually number one in the decrease of testosterone worldwide.

So that is something worrisome. Welcome to the room podcast, brought to you by the Physicians Committee.

Hi, I'm the weight loss champion.

Chuck Carroll, thanks so very much for watching and downloading in more than 150 countries around

the world and making the exam room, one of the most consumed nutrition podcasts anywhere on the planet.

Here we are in Rochester, Minnesota, Med City at the

Lotus Health Symposium and gala. And I'm here with Francisco Eduardo Ramirez Diaz.

Doctor, there it is. I got in all four names. Good to see you again. Thank you very much.

And yeah, I'm catching up with the 150 now now it's been 104 countries that I've given

seminars worldwide I know I remember speaking with you at this at this event last year

and we were talking about your passport and I was we were speaking even yesterday and

you were like I'm running out of places for the stamps man yes you're a man's man

you yeah I mean when I think manly man I think Dr. Ramirez here. But I want to talk to you today about something that you just finished talking about here at the symposium, and that is dropping testosterone levels among men. That is very interesting. Is this a new phenomenon? This is something that has been happening since the 1950s, 1960s we've been seeing this worrisome

trend worldwide.

You know, naturally as we get older, our testosterone starts to decrease.

After you hit the 50s, your testosterone is going to start decreasing about 1%.

That's the normal pattern.

But nowadays we're seeing kids, I call it kids because they're younger than me, people that are 36 years old,

and they have the testosterone of a 75-year-old.

That is very, very worrisome because testosterone as a male is what gives

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