All language subtitles for 2. Optimal vs Normal ranges

No I received many questions from

Asking what is the real optimal male hormone

And there is a lot of debate around this so let's look at it in this section

And just a quick point on units on conversions

Results can be presented in different units for example for testosterone it can be in nanograms per decilit

Or animal per liter

In the resource section

I will share with you a tool to convert read

It's too different levels so that you can actually

Connect them back to what

Present in this

When you go for a lab test and you receive your

They will usually be compared to normal ranges or reference ranges

But these normal ranges are

What op

And that's because these normal ranges are based on where 95% of healthy people

Now there are many issues with

The first one is that what we Define as healthy is actually subjective

And is normal ranges are usually calculated based on

The results that

Receive

And the problem is that

You have more sick people

To get a lab test then the normal people are healthy people so you have a bias there

To start with

It also usually includes

All population regardless of age so the normal range

Cover people from 18 all the way to

And so it

Optimize for

The other problem is that if levels drop on average

For a specific marker

The normal drops as well and we know that testosterone has been dropping since industrial Rev

And so many

Actually in in the last years

Many times

The normal ranges have been dropping

And finally doctors are concerned

By extremes not by suboptimal so they will not really be triggered

Suboptimal levels if they're not

Extremely

So all of these shows that the normal range

Is not

To the optimal range

Let's illustrate this with testost

The normal range

Is between 300 to 1,000 nanogram

Through the city

Or 10 to 35 Nano Mall per

But if you compare this to the distribution of testosterone in 1996

With 300 mg per deciliter

You would be in

Low

Percentile

For anyone who has lived in 50 years

And so this means that

You would only have

5% of people with less

Testosterone then you have

And that is actually quite crazy so

If you're 25 and you go and you receive

300 or even 350 mg

For your doctor you're normal you

On the low end

But you would still be normal

Now let's look at the optimal male hormone

For total testost

You want to have anything between $700 and 1,200 nanogram per decidere

Which is much higher than the minimum normal

Of

Actually for men

You only start feeling the benefits of testosterone

When you have above 600

You also want your free testosterone to be more than 15 mg per this year

And in any

More than 2% of your total testosterone

Sex hormone biting globul

You want to have

Something between

15 and 14 animal per liter

Luteinizing hormone and

Follicle stimulating hormone are fine between

Three and around 8 to 10

International units per

Estradiol should be between

10 and 25

Picogram per milliliter

And ideally you want to

Something wrong

So you don't want to

Amounts as high as 45

B***** you want to eat something between 45 and 18 mg per decilit

Which is more optimized than this larger range

And finally caught is all especially tested in the morning should be between 5 and 15

Michelob through the cedar which is

Slightly lower than the normal