In this segment of Functional Medicine Back to Basics Dr. Rutherford discusses the male hormones.

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So so for the again for those of you have been watching, I’m there’s. An order to this. There’s, a hierarchy, a pretty general hierarchy as to how you attack things and we’ve. Already gone over a lot of stuff, we’ve, gone over basics of care relative to blood sugar and essential fatty acids and oxygen.

We’ve gone over everything from the exam to the history, to the large intestines intestinal permeability, chemical sensitivities and in a relative order. I’m making that point that, again to those who may just be bringing this up.

For the first time, because we’re close to the end of this series – and we’re now, just getting to the male hormone imbalances and a subsequent presentation will be on female hormone imbalances. We’re.

Doing we’re doing the else first, not because we’re sexist, but because, frankly, it’s. A lot easier to me, health males, don’t have as much going on, thank God as the females have. I say that as a male and I’m, treating females and and and and the women having to deal with a lot more complexity.

So so we’re going to be talking about mainly we’re gonna be talking about loti. We’re gonna be talking about low tea, low testosterone. I mean I listen to a radio program every morning to get the news and the weather and the traffic and all that type of stuff, and there’s, no shortage of ways to get up your testosterone to raise that old testosterone.

There’s medications there’s. There’s herbs there’s. Botanicals. I’m, going to present you with a little different look on that there’s, a reason that that your testosterone is low. We’re, going to talk about those things there’s, a reason that it’s being presented last and and actually the way we look at problems is not that their testosterone is low, but the vast majority of time We’re, looking at it that their estrogens are high, that the male estrogens are high.

This is usually the problem, basically male problems, with the exception of prostate problems, which is too much testosterone because it’s, not getting cleared out of your system. Our are low, testosterone problems secondary to estrogen being high, and that’s.

Has a term it’s called andropause, and when I mentioned that to my male patients, they kind of look at me like, like they’ve, never heard the term before so it’s, the equivalent of menopause when women Go into menopause and they lose their.

They lose their ability to make estrogen from their ovaries. It’s different with men. It’s, not that men are losing their ability to make testosterone it’s that they’re, creating too much estrogen. So here’s this so here’s.

The picture of somebody who is creating too much estrogen increased body fat. You’re, you’re, you’re, getting you’re. Getting the increased body fat around your waist and, and you can’t, lose the weight you you know it could be.

It could be from fluid retention, but increased body fat can be manopause if men start getting. What is euphemistically caused his man boobs, so you’re. Looking at somebody’s got like a gut who & # 39? S probably got you know who’s, probably got a gut.

You’re. Looking at somebody who’s getting breasts as a man, they’re, actually starting to get the man boobs. You’re. Looking at somebody who’s, starting to get more emotional, you’ll notice. I’m starting to get into breasts more emotional.

I’m. Assuming there’s, not a lot of women tuning. You know this thing, but just in case there are, women do tend to be a little bit more emotional than men. It’s because of their hormones. Okay, it’s, not because they’re weaker.

It’s because of their hormones, and so so in andropause, the guys kind of turning into a little bit of turning into a female, because these are symptoms of more estrogen fat around here that won’t, go away.

Man boobs starting to maybe cry at those movies on on television, on the on the Women’s Channel when you’re sitting there with your wife watching them low libido. Obviously, now, if you have high estrogen, you’re.

Normally going to have low testosterone or it’s, a very least you’re gonna have a balance where your estrogen is equal to or higher than your testosterone. That’s. That’s, not a good thing. The balance has to be for men, testosterone, more for women testosterone more towards mood depression.

If you have depression, one of the many things that can cause that is low testosterone. Your frontal lobe has receptor sites for testosterone. Testosterone massively helps a male to have good frontal lobe and a good for a little function.

Good frontal, lobe function is that’s. Your executive function that your motivational function. Testosterone, testosterone, you’re, not very motivated. Testosterone is kind of a gas pedal, so that’s. That’s motivation, but it’s mood and then, if men have low testosterone, they’re.

Going to not be very, they’re, not gonna be very happy. They’re gonna be more or less depressed and had Daniel. It’s, a fancy name that says you know I’m, just not having fun in life anymore. It’s. That’s, so those are types of things you’ll, see you’ll, see low energy levels.

You know testosterone, I just got done saying is the is the is the is the gas pedal if your brain is not getting stimulated enough by testosterone, that will that will cause you to have low energy? We’re gonna talk about how some of the most common causes, one of the most common causes of low testosterone, is diet.

Okay, so and the same diet that will cause you to have low testosterone will also cause you to have usually blood sugar problems, usually pre-diabetes or insulin resistance or diabetes type 2. We’ll talk about how this creates the high estrogen and the low testosterone, and that causes fatigue.

Those types that those types of dietary regimens cause fatigue insomnia, because I’m. What kind of I’m kind of crossing over now into the high estrogen in some in high estrogen, as we’re going to talk about again? It is a lot of times heavily caused by pre-diabetes in your fats and causing your fat cells to turn estrogen into testosterone.

I gave you a little little, you know foreshadowing there and and that pre-diabetes can make you get up in the middle of the night and tap to pee. So it ‘ Ll interrupt your sleep quite a bit. It can cause prostate problems because high estrogen levels will lead to enlarged prostate, which will which will cause urinary issues, and so that’s.

Maybe a first for some of you to hear that that it may be more about your high estrogen levels. Then then, then, the testosterone that is accumulating in there because you’re, making too much. What’s called dihydrotestosterone, or you’re, not clearing it out, and you’re, not clearing it out a lot of times relative to this estrogen problem and then and then cardiovascular disease is kind of extreme.

But by that time you usually figure out your your testosterone imbalances or their, but but but these can also stroke it stroke there’s. A I’m. Sorry, I let me let me go back on that. The the low testosterone and high estrogen is highly inflammatory, and that tends to create inflammation that makes you susceptible to stroke and susceptible to cardiac problems, but the inflammatory response that causes the cardiac problems in turn causes something called high cortisol.

So we ‘ Ve talked about cortisol a great length, I think, two times ago, when we talked about adrenal glands, we’re gonna mention those a little bit here before we’re done, and adrenal glands. When you get inflammation, the adrenal glands are like they control your blood sugar.

They control your blood pressure, they control your energy, they control a lot of things when they put out too much cortisol. What cortisols main job is, after it creates information, is to move blood.

Sugar out of your liver, to try to control your blood sugar, you get too much blood sugar and the next thing you know, and next thing you know. If you’re, an older man, you’re, not getting a lot of exercise.

Things like that, you start developing blood sugar problems that starts to that starts to cause you to put on the weight at the man. Boobs get the press start crying it at female-oriented movies, the emotional tug at your art type movies, so that that’s kind of like the that’s kind of like what you.

If you’re feeling those things. If you’re having those problems, if you’re, if the normal thing is, is to be taking a medication for all of those right, so it’s like okay, yeah, low libido, they test you.

They look at your testosterone slow, so they give you a a low libido shot of testost