in the context of hormone optimization that is typically where you're going to get the most

bang for your buck in terms of quality of life well-being not putting yourself in like

excessive you know risk territory so up guys derrick more place morning So, guys, Derek, moreplacemoredates.com.

Today we're going to be talking about the difference between total testosterone, free testosterone,

bioavailable testosterone.

So this is a topic that I feel should be put into layman's terms and often goes, you know, overlooked

and sort of just get skimmed over in videos talking about hormone optimization. And frankly,

I always kind of just like assume people know what I'm talking about when I should really

just, you know, break it down in the layman's terms. Because this is something, you know, not

that long ago, I didn't know very much about either to be honest like it's only within the past few years i've really dug into

this stuff with you know extreme amounts of detail to the point where i even feel qualified to

somewhat you know elaborate on this process here of endocrinology so basically when testosterone

enters the bloodstream, it either gets

bound up by sex hormone binding globulin, which I'm sure you've heard of, SHBG, or attaches to

albumin. Now, the proportion of what attaches to what? This is a bit of a, you know, there's going to be

variability in person to person

as well as just the general ranges are often not consistently reported between different lab

values or different people who are talking about this so just in general a very broad range it's

about 30 to 45 percent of your total testosterone that gets bound up by SHBG.

And then of the rest of it, 50 to 68% albumin.

It's a very specific number, 50 to 68, but that's just, that's what it is.

And then very, you know, interestingly enough, a very, very small percentage is actually

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