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Dr. Karl Nadolsky - Understanding Testosterone, Thyroid & the Adrenals

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The Effect of Obesity on Testosterone

Lifestyle factors as the first way to go about treatment for this stuff is just phenomenal. And to see docs doing that is pretty amazing. So with this effect of obesity on testosterone, is that just down to aromatase, which is produced in fat tissue, converting that testosterone or is there something else going on above and beyond just a simple aromatase issue? Yeah, that's definitely part of it. That is absolutely part of the physiology. But there's much more to it. If we dug into the weeds of neuroendocrinology of obesity itself, we could discuss the inflammation that's up in the hypothalamus that's really controlling everything.

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