We’ve been led to believe by the mainstream medical authority that hormone optimization therapy can lead to dangerous side effects, but what if the studies actually show the opposite?

A lack of awareness around hormone optimization is leading people to fear taking testosterone, estrogen and ferritin when, in reality, hormones support the body on multiple levels.

So, how can we use these hormones to change our health for the better?

In this episode we speak to Kenneth Wilgers MD, an expert in hormone therapy, to deconstruct the myths around this subject.

89-90% of knowledgeable doctors and functional doctors believe what’s against the evidence. -Dr. Kenneth Wilgers 

Three Things We Learned 

• How the current paradigm of phlebotomy is the cause of health problems
  Doctors still encourage phlebotomy but what are the risks
  
  
• The importance of estrogen when attempting to balance and optimize hormones
  The average clinician still has no concept of the importance of estrogen, how is this still the case?
  
  
• Why testosterone is not the culprit behind health issues
  Testosterone is still being blamed for an increase in Polycythaemia and Erythrocytosis, but what’s the real cause?

Guest Bio

Kenneth Wilgers MD is the owner of Optimist VIP Health in Montgomery Texas, and Wilgers Clinic in Beaumont Texas. Alongside spending time with his family in Montgomery, Kenneth is one of the top optimized physicians on the planet. For more information, visit https://thewilgersclinic.com/.

For decades, men have been deprived of the best testosterone optimization because doctors constantly misinterpret the literature, make assumptions that aren’t backed by evidence and concern themselves with issues that aren’t even there.

These myths don’t just lead people into the hands of the wrong doctors, subscribing to them can actually compromise the beneficial effects of the treatment itself.

Does testosterone cause blood clots? Why do men need to stop blocking estradiol and DHT?

In part 2 of my discussion with Medical Director and CEO of Tier 1 Health and Wellness, Dr. Keith Nichols, we dispel more TOT myths, and set a lot of the biggest assumptions straight.

"Testosterone is essentially a prohormone. It exerts its beneficial effects through its active metabolites at the tissue level. Do not interfere with testosterone’s beneficial effects." -Dr. Keith Nichols

Three Curiosity-Driven Takeaways 

• The truth about testosterone and secondary erythrocytosis
  Does an increase in red blood cells from testosterone optimization indicate polycythemia vera?
  
  
• Where the panic about TOT side effects really comes from
  Have men been conditioned to fear symptoms and conditions that actually don’t exist?
  
  
• How testosterone myths corrode the benefits of the treatment
  What’s the danger of inhibiting biological pathways like estradiol and DHT? 

Guest Bio

Keith Nichols, M.D. is the Medical Director and CEO of Tier 1 Health and Wellness, the premier preventive medicine clinic in the Southeast.

For more information, visit https://tier1hw.com/.

Over the last few years, the entire hormone optimization space has unraveled, and there’s a huge fear that restrictions will crack down on everyone, including the doctors who are doing it right.

Between the mess with T-mills and the prescribing community, there are a lot of landmines to maneuver, and it’s more important than ever for the community to follow best practices.

What are the biggest myths that are threatening the quality of treatment people are getting? In this episode, Medical Director and CEO of Tier 1 Health and Wellness, Dr. Keith Nichols returns to talk about where the space is, and what we can do to raise the standards.

"Hormones have beneficial effects but they work synergistically." -Dr. Keith Nichols

Three Curiosity-Driven Takeaways 

• Testosterone optimization vs. testosterone replacement therapy
  What is the ultimate goal of optimization and what do so many people get wrong about it?
  
  
• 3 big testosterone misnomers
  What are the myths depriving men of the testosterone optimization they need?
  
  
• Why hormones are a symphony
  What is the difference between feel-good effects and beneficial effects?

Guest Bio

Keith Nichols, M.D. is the Medical Director and CEO of Tier 1 Health and Wellness, the premier preventive medicine clinic in the Southeast.

For more information, visit https://tier1hw.com/. 

With everything going on right now, it’s clear that most human beings are captured, stuck in a paralytic state of fear and hypnotized by the media.

Many dark forces and nefarious entities have a direct line to our internal programming, which keeps us in a constant stage of self-sabotage.

How do we get ourselves cleaned up subconsciously so we’re not weak and ripe for destruction?

In this episode, self-mastery and self-sabotage coach, editor of Waking Times and host of the Battered Souls podcast, Dylan Charles shares how we can stop being our worst enemies.

"The subconscious mind is a safety-seeking mechanism; it's not necessarily a happiness-seeking mechanism." -Dylan Charles 

Three Curiosity-Driven Takeaways 

• The path to a high conscious life
  Do we have to hit our own rock bottom to find consciousness or can learning from other people’s rock bottom teach what we need to know?
  
  
• How to clean yourself up and prepare for where humanity’s headed
  Why is it so important for us to be strong and grounded in source right now?
  
  
• What we can tap into with iboga
  How different is an iboga experience from an ayahuasca one? 

Guest Bio

Dylan Charles is a self-mastery and self-sabotage coach, and also the editor of Waking Times and host of the Battered Souls podcast. He is a truth-teller and passionate advocate of personal liberty. His journey of self-discovery began twenty years ago when he chose personal responsibility over dependency on psychiatry and pills, and began studying Kung Fu to free his body, mind and spirit from self-sabotage. Dylan's perspective is heavily influenced by his work with the shamanic plant medicines iboga and ayahuasca. Today he lives in Asheville, NC with his wife of 25 years and their 3 children.

For more information, and to find out about Dylan’s coaching program, head to https://www.dylancharlescoaching.com/jay.