All language subtitles for 3. Male Hormone Functions

Let's now look at the functions of male horm

And so testosterone is the hormone responsible for our sex differentiation especially

Puberty

This is when we develop

Deeper voice wider shoulders

Thicker

And our penis grows as well

It also drives the development of lean muscle

And Str

Any increases our bone

The social and also increases our red blood cell production that's why it has a positive impact on

Athletic performance

And it has an impact on our fat metabolism and distribution it essentially pushes our body to

Not accumul

It's too much

Now testosterone is also important from a sexual perspective because it increases our sex drive and allow

Just to develop erection

It's also important for our fertility and our production of spermatozo

From a cognitive perspective

Testosterone lowers our sensitivity to anxiety and pushes us to seek

Novel situation and competition so that's why it is associated with

Discovery and pushing the boundaries and entrepreneur

Spirits

It also lowers our risk of depression

And it improves

Some of our cognitive capabilities such as

Special abilities are memory ET

Dihydro testosterone or DHT

Which is the stronger version of our male horm

It's because it

Better to our Androgen receptors

Has similar functions to testosterone it also increases our sex differentiation

It increases our lean muscle mass

And two of the tissues were

Did we have the highest conversion of testosterone into DHT are our skin and our prostate

And that's why

DHT is important for secondary hair grow

This is for example your bird your hair across your body

And save on production as well as prostate development

If you don't have a lot of hair in your body or you don't have a lot of bird that doesn't mean specifically that you have

Load HD or

Testosterone

There is a genetic component as well

It just means that with the same genetic

Constitution

Having more DHC will increase

The amount

And finally Estherville which is the third main male hormone is important in the right amount because it is

Driving our bone

Our prostate development are fat metabolism are sex drive and erection

And it is quite key to protect our

Now let's dive into some of these

Function

So testosterone drives sexual differentiation

And so during pubert

And then AC

The whole of our LIF

Testosterone drives things such as the development of our penis

Testicles

The deepening of our voice

At Pub

Official and public hair

Our teacher development this is the whitening of our

Shoulders for example

And the development

Of Bones and mus

And this is

Takes you from being a boy

To be in a

Testosterone is also important for our muscle and body

Composition it increases our muscle mass while limiting the amount of fat

In our

Improves our performance our power endurance and strength and that's why it is

So critical for

Athletic perform

That's also why

Mini Sports do not allow their participants to use external testost

Or steroids because there is seen as cheating

It also increases our exercise efficiency

This this essentially means

You get more effects with the same amount

Of exercise or effort it makes essentially our body more sens

Cheap trigger

And finally it improves our metabolic health and lowers our risk of diabetes that is actually a very strong

Link between

Testoster

An incident sensit

Now the mechanisms of these effect

Include

And increase in

Production

Limiting

The destruction of our muscle tissue

Testosterone stops the formation of fat and helps us burn fat

And also increases

Red blood cell

In our

And red blood cell

Are what transports oxygen

Throughout the body so it helps

Get better exercise output better

Message performance overall

Testosterone is also critical for our sexual and reproduction function

And that's because it increases our libido and sexual interest

It contributes to the formation of nitric oxide which is a molecule that relaxes our blood vessels

And stimulates erection

And we also know that men with lot testost

Experience significant Improvement

In the libid

What is close down level

Now testosterone also

Participates in the production of sperm as well as

The volume of semen

From a psychological perspective testosterone develops what we call a winner ment

And that's because it decreases the threshold for anxiety

Indian stress and so it pushes

Just to take more risk

It increases our desire for novelty SE

So for example it's EAS

Speak to women

It's easier to

Want to be an entrepreneur and Venture a new areas

Increases also our competitiveness

Our energy and our ability to make effort

And so we know that men with

Testoster

Experience an improved mood when the southern levels increase

And there is a connection between testosterone and depression actually depression wors

In men as the age

And that happens around the same time as the social level

Are decreasing so

That could show a link between Lotus restaurant

And DEP

And finally the social improves recognition

When he gets into our brain it is actually converted

Been to DHT and astrology

It promotes cell

And survival

It also increases the perfusion of areas involved

Strategic planning

Motor action

Cognitive behavior

Wakeful

Yes and

We also know that healthy testosterone levels

Mean that you can maintain your cognition

Overtime

Old man with higher levels of free testosterone have better scores

As for visual and verbal memory

And finally we also know that healthy testosterone

Might mean less Alzheimer

In a study the risk of Alzheimer went down by 26% for each 10 units

Increase in free testosterone IND

We also know that men and women with Alzheimer have increased concentration of

Shb

Which means that they have

Free testosterone

Running in their body