Why Men Are Fading: The Hidden Testosterone Crisis

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 6 May 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Please join me in welcoming Dr. Mark Richards, one of the leading experts in testosterone replacement therapy.

There are many environmental causes of low testosterone, including plastics, forever chemicals, pesticides, insecticides, and herbicides. If you’ve been exposed to too many chemicals, your cells that make testosterone will be affected!

On average, population testosterone levels today are 60% lower than in the 1970s.

Many of the negative side effects associated with testosterone therapy, such as heart attack and stroke, have been unfounded and removed from warning labels by the FDA.

Testosterone creams only increase testosterone to a therapeutic level about 20% of the time and only for a few hours. Testosterone injections create a massive spike in testosterone, which also increases estrogen, leading to irritability and aggression.

Testosterone pellets are compressed pure testosterone placed in the fat tissue through the skin and are highly effective at addressing low testosterone in men and women.

In his 17 years of experience, Dr. Richards has found that fat cells effectively absorb testosterone and release it as your body needs it. This allows for a more stable release of testosterone that lasts for 4 months in men and 3 months in women.

Testosterone pellets are 100% testosterone made using cholesterol from yams. There are not many side effects associated with testosterone pellets.

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0:00.0	One of the biggest causes of lowered testosterone is chemicals and plastics in the environment.
0:05.7	Plastics in your food that you eat, forever chemicals, pesticides, insecticides, herbicides.
0:10.4	If you've been exposed to too many chemicals, the cells that make testosterone are going to be affected the most.
0:16.4	This is more of a problem than most people realize.
0:19.4	I'm going to interview one of the top experts,
0:22.3	Dr. Mark Richards, who specializes in testosterone replacement therapy. I've learned some things
0:27.7	I've never heard before. When you hear about testosterone replacement therapy, a lot of side
0:32.9	effects come up. You do research and there's like increases your risk for cardiovascular, prostate
0:38.6	problems. I want to know more about that point because I don't know if that's true or false.
0:44.1	Interesting enough last week, the FDA just pulled their caution on heart disease and stroke
0:49.3	off of testosterone warning label because it was proven that not only was it not true,
0:54.0	but actually
0:54.8	testosterone therapy done properly, greatly reduces risk of heart attack and strokes. Interesting.
1:00.3	You have different types of application, right? You have the injection, which you have to get
1:05.2	frequently, and then you have pellets and you have creams. Tell me a little bit about each one.
1:10.0	What kind of effects would be created
1:12.6	one versus another? The method of delivery in testosterone therapy has everything to do with the
1:18.6	health benefits that you're going to receive from it. So we'll take creams first. They found only 20%
1:24.2	of the time did you actually get to a therapeutic range and then only for a number
1:29.2	of hours, not even for a day. When you do an injection, you get a massive spike in testosterone.
1:35.1	It causes all the other hormones and things that testosterone makes to get overproduced for
1:40.3	a short period of time. The first 36, 48 hours, he'll have a massive increase in estrogen.
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