What podcasts say about Dr. Kyle Gillett
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What Dr. Kyle Gillett has said on podcasts
46 statements · 25 positive · 15 negative · 6 neutral
People should monitor hormone-related development across the lifespan.
“you wanna monitor that progress across a person's lifespan”
Open the episode · Essentials: Tools for Hormone Optimization in Males | Dr. Kyle GillettListen at 1:04
Hormone evaluation should measure testosterone with SHBG or free testosterone.
“you want to get either testosterone and a SHBG or a free testosterone”
Open the episode · Essentials: Tools for Hormone Optimization in Males | Dr. Kyle GillettListen at 1:20
SHBG binds circulating androgens and estrogens.
“It is the protein that binds up all androgens and estrogens in the body.”
Open the episode · Essentials: Tools for Hormone Optimization in Males | Dr. Kyle GillettListen at 1:29
High SHBG can increase DHT by reducing its metabolism.
“if your SHBG is very high, then your DHT can run higher because it's not metabolized”
Open the episode · Essentials: Tools for Hormone Optimization in Males | Dr. Kyle GillettListen at 1:50
Follow-up blood work is usually appropriate after about six months.
“Usually a good follow up is about six months.”
Open the episode · Essentials: Tools for Hormone Optimization in Males | Dr. Kyle GillettListen at 2:14
Dairy consumption can increase IGF-1 and free IGF-1.
“dairy can help increase IGF1 and free IGF1”
Open the episode · Essentials: Tools for Hormone Optimization in Males | Dr. Kyle GillettListen at 2:53
IGF-1 supports growth, genital development, secondary sexual characteristics, and long-bone growth.
“it helps you grow, it helps with genital development, secondary sexual characteristics and long bone growth”
Open the episode · Essentials: Tools for Hormone Optimization in Males | Dr. Kyle GillettListen at 3:03
Vitamin D supports testosterone production.
“Vitamin D helps with testosterone production.”
Open the episode · Essentials: Tools for Hormone Optimization in Males | Dr. Kyle GillettListen at 3:22
Strict carnivore or vegan diets in young people may significantly reduce free androgens.
“it is likely to significantly decrease your free androgens so you will have less testosterone acting on receptors through the body”
Open the episode · Essentials: Tools for Hormone Optimization in Males | Dr. Kyle GillettListen at 4:30
Fiber strongly influences the lifelong baseline of the gut microbiome.
“Fiber is going to be paramount in kind of like setting your set point of your gut microbiome the rest of your life.”
Open the episode · Essentials: Tools for Hormone Optimization in Males | Dr. Kyle GillettListen at 4:42
Prebiotic fiber and essential fatty acids support brain development.
“it helps with brain development”
Open the episode · Essentials: Tools for Hormone Optimization in Males | Dr. Kyle GillettListen at 5:23
Caloric deficit reduces hormonal building blocks.
“they'll have less building blocks for hormones”
Open the episode · Essentials: Tools for Hormone Optimization in Males | Dr. Kyle GillettListen at 6:20
Caloric deficit lowers free androgens and free estrogens.
“So they're free andro and free estrogens will go down.”
Open the episode · Essentials: Tools for Hormone Optimization in Males | Dr. Kyle GillettListen at 6:40
Excess stress can disrupt diet, exercise, and other hormone-supporting behaviors.
“if someone is overstressed, then it can put all the other lifestyle pillars and then they stop dieting. Well, they stop exercising and everything else can go askew.”
Open the episode · Essentials: Tools for Hormone Optimization in Males | Dr. Kyle GillettListen at 7:06
Three to four weekly vigorous exercise sessions are sustainable long term.
“Around three to four times a week is very sustainable over a long period of time.”
Open the episode · Essentials: Tools for Hormone Optimization in Males | Dr. Kyle GillettListen at 9:47
Regular vigorous training sessions longer than one hour are not hormonally helpful.
“do not, it is not hormonally helpful to train, especially regularly, train vigorously for longer than an hour.”
Open the episode · Essentials: Tools for Hormone Optimization in Males | Dr. Kyle GillettListen at 10:20
Testosterone therapy is almost never justified for people in their twenties.
“Not very often if you're in your 20s, and certainly probably almost hardly never.”
Open the episode · Essentials: Tools for Hormone Optimization in Males | Dr. Kyle GillettListen at 11:52
Creatine slightly raises total testosterone and testosterone-to-DHT conversion.
“it does slightly increase total testosterone and it also increases the conversion of testosterone to dihydrotestosterone”
Open the episode · Essentials: Tools for Hormone Optimization in Males | Dr. Kyle GillettListen at 12:59
Hair-loss concerns alone should not deter creatine use.
“Hair loss is not a reason to avoid taking creatine.”
Open the episode · Essentials: Tools for Hormone Optimization in Males | Dr. Kyle GillettListen at 14:09
Creatine will not accelerate hair loss beyond natural male-related risk.
“it's not going to speed up hair loss more than just naturally being a male does”
Open the episode · Essentials: Tools for Hormone Optimization in Males | Dr. Kyle GillettListen at 14:34
Betaine supplementation is warranted for creatine users only with persistently elevated homocysteine.
“Only if their homocysteine is persistently elevated.”
Open the episode · Essentials: Tools for Hormone Optimization in Males | Dr. Kyle GillettListen at 15:37
High carnitine or choline intake may increase TMAO, a potential carcinogen.
“you should be concerned with tmao, which is a potential carcinogen that both carnitine and choline can convert into.”
Open the episode · Essentials: Tools for Hormone Optimization in Males | Dr. Kyle GillettListen at 17:11
Garlic-derived allicin may reduce conversion to TMAO.
“this can help decrease the conversion to tmao.”
Open the episode · Essentials: Tools for Hormone Optimization in Males | Dr. Kyle GillettListen at 17:42
L-carnitine increases androgen-receptor density in cells.
“it increases the density of the androgen receptor in the cytoplasm of your cells”
Open the episode · Essentials: Tools for Hormone Optimization in Males | Dr. Kyle GillettListen at 18:39
L-carnitine, creatine, and betaine do not need cycling.
“No reason to cycle any of those.”
Open the episode · Essentials: Tools for Hormone Optimization in Males | Dr. Kyle GillettListen at 18:59
Correcting vitamin D deficiency can optimize testosterone.
“if you have deficient vitamin D and you replace it, then you will optimize your testosterone.”
Open the episode · Essentials: Tools for Hormone Optimization in Males | Dr. Kyle GillettListen at 19:47
Boron can acutely lower very high SHBG.
“if you have a very high shbg, boron can acutely help lower it.”
Open the episode · Essentials: Tools for Hormone Optimization in Males | Dr. Kyle GillettListen at 19:54
Tongkat Ali may be especially effective during low-carb diets or caloric deficits.
“if you are not expecting as much growth hormone, insulin and IGF1, for example, lower carb diets, caloric deficits, you're trying to cut body fat or body weight, then Tongkat is going to be theoretically especially powerful.”
Open the episode · Essentials: Tools for Hormone Optimization in Males | Dr. Kyle GillettListen at 21:45
Recommended Tongkat Ali dosage ranges from 300 to 1,200 milligrams daily.
“Anywhere from 300 to 1200 milligrams a day.”
Open the episode · Essentials: Tools for Hormone Optimization in Males | Dr. Kyle GillettListen at 22:06
Tongkat Ali increases total and free testosterone even with normal SHBG.
“Yes, it'll increase their total and free testosterone.”
Open the episode · Essentials: Tools for Hormone Optimization in Males | Dr. Kyle GillettListen at 23:29
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