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Barbell Shrugged

Physiology Friday: [Hormone Dysfunction] Birth Control, TRT, HRT, and Toxicity w/ Anders Varner, Doug Larson, Coach Travis Mash and Dan Garner

Barbell Shrugged

Doug Larson

Business, Training, Fitness, Health & Fitness, Paleo, Weightlifting, Nutrition, Crossfit

4.72.8K Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

In this Episode of Barbell Shrugged:

  1. How Birth Control can reduce testosterone by 70%
  2. Birth controls affects on your physique
  3. How to pick the right birth control
  4. What are drug induced nutrient depletions 
  5. How to best handle menopause and andropause
  6. What happens when you do not have a cycle for 5+ years
  7. What is wrong with TRT and HRT
  8. How heavy metal and toxicity affect your hormones

Visit https://rapidhealthoptimization.com

Connect with our guests:

Anders Varner on Instagram

Doug Larson on Instagram

Coach Travis Mash on Instagram

Dan Garner on Instagram

 

Transcript

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0:00.0

Shrug family this week on Barbell Shrug, Physiology Friday is back and Dan Garner is getting into all things, birth control, talking hormone dysfunction, TRT, HrT, all things, hormones, which everybody likes to take a deep dive into it.

0:13.8

As always, friends, make sure you get over to Rapid HealthReporthor.com.

0:16.6

That is for Dan Garner. Dr. Andy Galtman are doing a free lab, lifestyle performance analysis.

0:21.6

You can access that free report

0:23.0

over at rapid health report.com.

0:25.2

Friends, let's get into the show.

0:29.3

Welcome to Barb Al Strugg.

0:31.1

I'm Andrews, Barnard.

0:32.4

Doug Larson.

0:33.9

Dan Garner.

0:34.7

Today, I'm Barbara L shrug.

0:36.5

We are going to be talking about TRT.

0:38.0

And is TRT right for you?

0:40.2

When is it actually right for you?

0:41.9

When isn't it right for you?

0:43.7

And all the questions you should be asking yourself before actually going on TRT,

0:48.7

Dan, this is like one of the number one things that actually comes up in all of the,

0:54.6

I shouldn't say all, but many of the calls that we have with people coming into rapid is they've got this low energy

0:58.9

thing they've got a low libido thing and then all of a sudden they go to the doctor the doctor runs their

1:03.4

test and it says ah you're at like low 400s maybe 200s maybe 300s but it's somewhere below

1:09.9

whatever is considered normal,

1:11.9

and then they get thrown on TRT.

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