Maximize Testosterone Without Steroids w/ Dr. Ben House — Barbell Shrugged #343
Barbell Shrugged
Doug Larson
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 3 October 2018
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Ben House, PhD, CN, FDN, fNMT, NCSF, USAW LI SPC is owner and founder of Functional Medicine Costa Rica, and has worked as a strength and conditioning coach and nutritionist since 2006.
Dr. House House was accepted to medical school without an undergraduate degree, but elected to finish his degree and pursue a career in the health and fitness sector. He is currently practicing Functional Medicine after finishing his PhD and a multi-year metabolic health study within the Nutritional Sciences Department at UT-Austin.
House has numerous publications in peer reviewed scientific journals such as The International Journal of Obesity, has presented his work at multiple international conferences, and lectures regularly on health and nutrition at The University of Texas.
In this episode, we talk about health problems associated with low testosterone, using nutrition to increase testosterone, how much sleep do you need to maximize testosterone, why steroids may not be the answer, how you can maximize testosterone without steroids, and more.
Enjoy!
- Doug and Anders
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| 0:00.0 | Truck family, we're back! Doug and I just rolled in from the Spartan World |
| 0:04.8 | Chamomile Chips in Lake Tahoe. I was able to get out there earlier in the week |
| 0:09.5 | last week. My wife and the little one and I did a little vacationing at Lake |
| 0:14.2 | Tahoe, did some cruising, places absolutely gorgeous. I felt cold for the first |
| 0:19.4 | time in many, many months, even though it was only like 60 degrees. That's what |
| 0:25.1 | happens when you're from San Diego. The cold starts at anything below 70. Doug |
| 0:30.6 | and I met up. I did the Spartan up podcast on Thursday. Did a bunch of |
| 0:37.5 | street team interviews with them on Thursday afternoon. Their whole crew is so |
| 0:42.5 | cool. Even Sephora the Seed Huntress. What a crazy crazy lady she is but what |
| 0:49.0 | what an awesome the number of laughs that came out of that girl's mouth. Man |
| 0:55.1 | unbelievable. We had five killer interviews from Evan DeMarco, the Spaniard |
| 1:03.9 | check out his podcast. All kinds of good shows. One of the guys running the |
| 1:10.2 | Sahara Desert. Hold on Charlie Engel. You guys are about to meet a monster in the |
| 1:15.0 | next couple weeks. Once we get that show posted but to do rain across the |
| 1:19.3 | Sahara Desert and now he's going on one of the most epic adventures ever. We |
| 1:25.3 | are we also hung out on Saturday night with the Mind Pump guys anytime Justin |
| 1:30.3 | Adam Doug and Sal get together. Those guys throw epic parties and I'm always |
| 1:35.9 | grateful for the hospitality the high fives. Just an awesome group of guys and |
| 1:40.9 | I'm really happy that I get to run in the same circles with them every once in |
| 1:44.7 | a while when we get to these events. This week coming up we have Dr. Ben |
| 1:51.0 | House. We met Dr. Ben House at the Granite Games and I had honestly never heard |
| 1:58.4 | of him before in my entire life and sometimes when that happens you don't know |
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