Pills Over Needles: The New Era of TRT w/ Shalin Shah

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Jay Ferruggia

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🗓️ 22 April 2025

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Kill your vices, sculpt your physique, and become unstoppable with my FREE 6-Step Daily Domination Blueprint.

Longevity Expert Shalin Shah, CEO of Marius Pharmaceuticals and Director of The Testosterone Project, is a pioneer in metabolic health and testosterone replacement therapy (TRT).

Shalin's work emphasizes practical, science-backed habits and consumer education, reshaping healthcare and tackling the global health crisis linked to declining testosterone levels.

Listen and learn:

What are the most common signs of low testosterone? [5:11]
How can you get the best results from TRT? [10:20]
Is there an optimal testosterone level? [16:51]
Why are SHBG levels rising, and can you bring them down? [23:32]
How do you know if oral testosterone is right for you? [27:40]
What are the biggest misconceptions? [39:52]
Are the results of TRT immediate? [47:22]
Is there a stack to enhance effectiveness? [58:24]
What are the benefits of a Cleerly exam? [1:07:02]
What supplements and lifestyle changes improve metabolic health? [1:10:38]

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0:00.0	You are listening to the J. Faruja show, the podcast that helps high achieving men get
0:10.6	lean and jacked, build an unbreakable mindset, and become the man you're meant to be.
0:19.6	Well, let's just start a little bit with your background and kind of how you got into this.
0:23.6	Cool. So yeah, it's been 10 years, 10 years plus a little bit on the testosterone story here.
0:28.6	Originally I got into it because, you know, we were looking at, so I come from the investment world.
0:34.6	In Raleigh, there was this drug being developed.
0:37.8	It was an oral testosterone pill.
0:39.5	And this was actually around the time, interestingly enough,
0:42.3	because now it's been reversed,
0:43.7	the FDA came in and put a black box on testosterone products
0:48.7	for cardiovascular risk.
0:50.2	And anybody in the space knows that was total bogus.
0:53.1	The studies that they did that on were so flawed. And actually, the space knows that was total bogus. The studies that they did that on were,
0:54.9	you know, so flawed. And actually the FDA said, like, these are the reasons why these studies
1:00.5	don't make sense. But then they went ahead and did that anyway, right? Totally scared, you know,
1:05.1	the last 10 years people off therapy to a certain degree. But that, effectively, this drug that was in
1:10.8	development, it put the stops on that.
1:13.4	And from the investment side, generally look at things that are turnaround assets,
1:18.8	contrarian, right?
1:19.7	When everybody runs away, that's when we get in.
1:22.6	So started looking at this drug and looking at testosterone as a whole.
1:26.3	And all the research was so positive, right?
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