And I wanted to ask you, when did your relationship with Jesus become personal?

Well, it became personal when I was 19.

I was actually in college.

It was in between going, I was about to go to Ole Miss University of Mississippi, very secular school.

And then I ran into a youth group in this small town my parents had moved to, Forest, Mississippi, and they were on fire for Jesus.

So I decided to go one year to Christ for the Nations in Dallas, Texas.

And that radically changed my life.

Um, you've given me instructions in terms of supplements and, um, you know, that was about a one very grateful.

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Absolutely.

Testosterone, unfortunately, men's testosterones continue to drop.

They're about forty percent of what they were a few decades ago, and there are testosterone killers that many men are, are-- unfortunately have their, their, in their life, and as a result, it's lowering their testosterone levels.

For example, when you have belly fat, belly fat is a huge testosterone killer.

The more belly fat you have, the greater the enzyme aromatase works that produces estrogen and lowers testosterone, exactly the opposite of what you want.

The more stress you're under, the more, uh, your body, uh, the more cortisol you produce, the lower your testosterone goes.

... or are you stuck on it forever?

Wagyu

... once a month.

And, uh, it tastes really good, but afterwards, I always have my fiber.

And the s- the other thing that will increase the risk of breast cancer and prostate cancer are nitrites and nitrates.

Now, it's in some of your favorite foods.

It's in bacon, sausage.

It's in, um, processed meats like your deli meats.

Okay

Yeah.

Well, well, the, so that's why we use, if a person's on levothyroxine or Synthroid, I will add a little active form of lev- or, uh, liothyronine, which is T3, to it, five micrograms or 10 in the morning with their levothyroxine, and their, their body heats up.

Or I'll put them on a natural thyroid such as NP Thyroid or Armour Thyroid that has, it has, uh, T3 and T4.

It also has T1 and T2 and calcitonin and iodine.

In, in other words, all the support factors for the thyroid.

So your body, that works the best for most patients.

The only problem with that is people that are over 70 sometimes it can make their heart beat too fast, and so we have to monitor it, and we can't push their level too high.

And get her hormones checked

Can you just share with everyone who maybe didn't hear last week's broadcast kind of the context for why you even wrote this book in the first place?

Well, I've been practicing medicine for approximately forty years, and I found over the years that numbers don't lie.

That's a truth that stands-- will stand forever.

So I've been checking my patients' numbers every six months, and I check these critical numbers, and unfortunately, a lot of doctors don't check.

And we don't-- when you don't check these numbers and you don't bring these numbers in normal range, disease starts to set in.

And many times there's no symptoms that occur.

Like with inflammatory markers like HSCRP and homocysteine levels, you have a slow inflammation that's kindling, like a fire burning in your body that's not recognized.

I feel like I know in general, but I would love for you to expand.

Can you just share with everyone who maybe didn't hear last week's broadcast kind of the context for why you even wrote this book in the first place?

Well, I've been practicing medicine for approximately forty years, and I've found over the years that numbers don't lie.

That's a truth that stands, will stand forever.

So I've been checking my patients' numbers every six months, and I check these critical numbers, and unfortunately, a lot of doctors don't check.

And we don't, when you don't check these numbers and you don't bring these numbers in normal range, disease starts to set in.

And many times there's no symptoms that occur.

Like with inflammatory markers like HSCRP and homocysteine levels, you have a slow inflammation that's kindling like a fire burning in your body that's not recognized.

I feel like I know in general, but I would love for you to expand.