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At What Age Should You Start Hormone Replacement Therapy?

hello YouTube Sam Ridgeway here with

live like a Viking calm and Chris my IT

girl she comes to me with some very

interesting information it seems that

almost 50% of the subscribers of this

channel are between the ages of 35 and

44 so why is that significant well

because it shows a proactive interest in

half of our subscribers and a reactive

interest in roughly the other 50% so

what do I mean by that I’m saying half

of all of our subscribers are interested

in what they could do to proactively

slow down the aging process before it

becomes noticeable they want to know at

what age should they start worrying

about this hormone replacement therapy

stuff so I feel like I have an answer

and on this channel we answer questions

through science research and logic first

let’s talk about HGH in the 1970s

medical researchers had hopes that HGH

might be kind of a youth serum it was

explored as a treatment for weakness low

energy and depression in the elderly and

it worked it was found that I GF would

combats loss of muscle mass and old age

by promoting new tissue growth retarding

apoptosis and apoptosis is when your

cell commits suicide happens all the

time

it could be pre programmed cell death or

it can be generated out of necessity

like what a cell see something’s going

terribly wrong with it

so basically implode send out a distress

signal and the cleanup crew shows up to

clear the scene as you can imagine this

is the very process that protects us

against infection cancer but can also

start killing healthy cells when we’re

older so higher igf-1 level can prevent

this process from happening to healthy

cells as we age

igf-1 promotes new nerve growth in the

brain and linked to better cognitive

performance as well as subjective

feelings of youth and well-being now

I’ve been throwing around igf-1 as a

term and I haven’t even explained yet so

for simplistic purposes it’s like the

unit of measurement showing how much

human growth hormones in your body so

what

the igf-1 I’m talking about the level of

HGH you have in your system it’s not a

perfect indicator but it’s about as

close to get without expensive lab

testing procedures so higher igf-1

protects the brain from aging reduce the

risk of stroke and Alzheimer’s and it

prevents osteoporosis now to be fair

lower igf-1 levels seem to extend

longevity in human beings so you tend to

live longer with lower igf-1 levels to a

certain point of course higher igf-1

levels exacerbate the growth the growth

of cancer cells now it’s very inclusive

that higher igf-1 levels can cause

cancer but if you get cancer by a

different means it can make those rogue

cells grow faster it should also be

mentioned that the FDA does not

acknowledge HGH as a solution to the

aging process in fact technically

clinics that handle HGH for anti-aging

purposes are doing so illegally I can

personally tell you that’s bullshit HGH

certainly does slow down the aging

process but the logical question with

all this information is what kind of

quality of life are we talking about if

higher igf-1 levels keep your brain from

aging reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s

prevent osteoporosis then load igf-1

would put you at risk for these

conditions and who cares if you live to

your 110 if you can’t remember the last

30 years of your life if you can’t walk

from your couch to the kitchen because

your bones are so fragile if you have to

have somebody wipe your ass every day is

that really living or is that just

merely existing so let’s find out what

the optimal age is to start thinking

about supplementing with HGH okay so

let’s look at the growth hormone decline

chart now as you can see when you’re

born your way up here okay and then as

you age 10 20 30 40 when you get to be

about 40 years old that’s when you see

this red control line right here this

one that’s what you see you start

dipping below it right here right before

the age of 40 so given that fact on the

growth form

decline chart the time that you should

start thinking about HGH or at least

looking at your values would be right in

this area in the 40s now on the

testosterone testosterone is responsible

for a high sex drive the ability to

actually perform sexually a higher

metabolism more muscle less body fat the

strength and density your bones is

higher your mental well-being is better

you’re less likely to be depressed you

have fewer mood swings more energy to

complete daily tasks in our testosterone

levels as a species have been declining

over the last thirty years or so and

nobody has a definitive answer as to why

some attributed to lower levels of

physical activity or higher instances of

obesity sharp decline in smoking and yes

smoking increases your testosterone

levels now it obviously kill you in

other ways so it’s stupid and that’s

coming from somebody who smoked from the

age of about 18 to the age of 48 I

smoked almost two packs a day for at

least 20 years so I’m assuming at some

point in time I’m gonna have to pay the

piper for my addition addiction to

smoking but anybody out there is still

smoking just stop it’s expensive it’s

unhealthy they’re literally stinks and

no chicks do not dig it okay so this is

on the free and available testosterone

levels in males so we’re gonna see here

is we’re gonna see that from 1987

through 1989 in the forty five to

seventy one-year-old category the

testosterone was 501 and the available

testosterone two hundred and thirty

seven and then we go to 1995 to 1997

from the 50 to 80 year olds it starts

declining so from 87 to 89 is number one

and then you come 95 to 97 you go down

to 435 and 188 and then you go a few

years later to 2002 to 2005 from the 50

seven-year-olds to the eight-year-olds

and you see you go for 391 to 130 so

again as a species our testosterone

levels are slowly declining now let’s

take a look at testosterone production

in the same manner that we looked at

igf-1 okay so if this is the spectrum

from being 20 years old to 80 years old

and we see the decline in testosterone

as you go 20 to 30 40 50 60 70 to 80

when you go around I’m looking probably

right in this area here between 40 and

50 so I’m gonna have to go with 45 I

mean if you look at 50 you have

basically half the testosterone left in

you as you had at 20 and and if that’s

the way that it is or that’s the way you

have to say that it is okay that’s fine

but that isn’t the way it has to be you

don’t have to be okay with that there’s

no reason for that

you can supplement with exogenous

testosterone and you can get your levels

in your 50s that you had in your 20s

again it’s not super physiological it’s

what you had in your 20s you just happen

to have it in your 50s for me personally

I’d start worrying about low

testosterone it about 45 years old now

that doesn’t mean you have low

testosterone just means you should get

tested if you’re in your mid-40s and you

have symptoms of low T so in conclusion

it looks like testosterone should start

being monitored around age 45 and that’s

just an approximation your mileage may

vary but we have to play with averages

if you want to establish guidelines now

circling back to HGH though when you’re

40 is when it seems what you’ll want to

start monitoring igf-1 levels and though

there’s a logical question of if I

supplement with HGH at maybe age 35 or

so would that be similar to when women

get Botox in their 20s do you wait for

wrinkles to get Botox or do you prevent

wrinkles by not letting wrinkles happen

in the first place I agree that’s a

judgment call and I can see both sides

of the argument

so if I had to definitively answer the

question I posed at the beginning of

this video the question being at what

age should you start hormone replacement

therapy

I’d have to say 45 years old for

testosterone and 40 years old for HGH

questions comments concerns put them

below and remember you’re never too old

to live like a Viking until next time

peace out

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