Valuetainment - May 21, 2026


＂Your Doctor Is FAILING You＂ - The Truth About Why Men's Testosterone Is COLLAPSING


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4 minutes

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941

Sentence count

61

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In this episode, Dr. Humberto Soto discusses the link between testosterone and erectile dysfunction in men and how to treat it. Dr. Soto and his co-host Dr. Robert Lustig discuss the importance of testosterone supplementation for men and the potential link between poor diet and poor testosterone production.

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00:00:00.000 Typically, when you talk to guys, they'll talk about, you know,
00:00:03.080 when boys are comfortable and they want to talk to each other,
00:00:05.100 they'll open up, boom.
00:00:06.540 It's either ED, they can't get it up.
00:00:08.760 Right.
00:00:09.260 It's either they can get it up, but they come very quickly.
00:00:12.000 Right.
00:00:12.140 So, climax, so stamina is the problem, or it's size.
00:00:15.380 How do you address each of these for men?
00:00:17.800 Again, we're kind of back to... 0.96
00:00:20.820 They get a hammer and just hit their junk and say, hey, listen. 0.97
00:00:24.020 No, no. 0.97
00:00:24.320 Is it like a... 0.98
00:00:25.300 Let's talk about erectile... 0.96
00:00:26.620 Bob, don't try that. 0.97
00:00:27.380 I'm just asking before you guys.
00:00:28.860 I'm worried about Humberto goes and says.
00:00:31.400 Let's talk about erectile dysfunction first.
00:00:33.660 So erectile dysfunction, we talked about this earlier in the podcast,
00:00:36.600 directly linked to the absolute collapse of men's testosterone and metabolic health.
00:00:42.780 So if you look at the 1920s pictures that we showed earlier in the podcast of New York,
00:00:48.140 those men, our great grandfathers, our grandfathers,
00:00:51.220 had testosterone that was higher than ours, right?
00:00:54.960 And across the board.
00:00:56.940 So the average testosterone, give or take, from what we can say today, 100 years ago for men in their 30s and 40s was probably in the 800s, 800 nanograms per deciliter.
00:01:06.380 Today it's 400, 450.
00:01:08.360 So we've just collapsed.
00:01:10.760 And I think that that, in combination with our overall metabolic health, and this is the quality of the food we're eating, but also our toxic environment, which we can talk about.
00:01:21.180 So we are swimming in an environment that is full of compounds, whether it's BPA, phthalates,
00:01:28.120 PFAs, which are forever chemicals, or microplastics and pesticides, which in the microplastics
00:01:32.520 can carry all those chemicals into our body.
00:01:34.700 These are endocrine disrupting chemicals.
00:01:36.740 So we are not only eating poor quality food, we are not eating the nutrients needed to
00:01:41.380 have healthy testicles, which produce testosterone in the Leydig cells and the Sertoli cells
00:01:46.820 support that. 0.51
00:01:47.540 we are also imbibing putting on our skin washing our hair breathing in chemicals drinking chemicals
00:01:55.660 in cans in plastic bottles in plastic cups that are actively disrupting our ability to make these
00:02:02.460 hormones and then we are ending up with 30 year olds and 40 year old men who have erectile
00:02:08.140 dysfunction now then they go to the doctor the doctor says hey your testosterone is 300 here's
00:02:13.920 testosterone. And to me, this is, there's nothing intrinsically wrong with testosterone
00:02:18.480 supplementation, but I think that we are failing to talk to these men about what could be causing
00:02:23.580 this because you can correct it, right? So you think about how quickly men get testosterone
00:02:28.180 prescriptions. I saw Jeremy Renner was on a podcast recently saying he's on TRT as testosterone was
00:02:33.260 two to 300. I think he's early fifties. Um, more. Hurt Locker, the actor. Uh, yeah. The guy who
00:02:39.660 He's in the Marvel movies.
00:02:40.980 Is that the Hurt Locker, the same guy I'm thinking about?
00:02:43.340 Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:02:44.060 He's phenomenal.
00:02:45.020 Yeah, and he – so he was on –
00:02:45.860 So he said he was at 200?
00:02:47.280 200 to 300, I think, yeah.
00:02:49.020 He was on Chris Williamson's podcast talking about peptides and TRT.
00:02:52.480 And what did he do to improve his –
00:02:53.760 Well, he just took TRT, you know?
00:02:55.480 Okay.
00:02:55.620 So for me, this is like, okay, the problem is if you have – if you go to a doctor –
00:03:01.460 so I know that a lot of men listening to this might be 30s, 40s, 50s.
00:03:05.060 If you go to your doctor and they say, hey, your testosterone is 300, 400,
00:03:08.820 It should be 800, you know, and there is a biological precedent.
00:03:13.480 It's possible to be in your 40s or 50s and have testosterone in the 700s or 800s.
00:03:18.220 My testosterone was 860.
00:03:20.120 I don't take anything.
00:03:20.960 I'm 48 years old.
00:03:22.300 So like, and I've met many men who show this.
00:03:24.500 You can, there's nothing about being a man in your 40s, 50s, or even 60s that says your
00:03:30.140 testosterone needs to fall off a cliff.
00:03:31.960 But we go to the doctor.
00:03:33.480 We say, hey, my testosterone is 300.
00:03:35.560 They say, here's TRT.
00:03:36.400 did your doctor check your vitamin D level?
00:03:39.460 Did your doctor check your zinc level?
00:03:41.940 There's really good evidence
00:03:43.200 that if your zinc level is less than maybe 80,
00:03:46.280 80 milligrams per deciliter,
00:03:47.460 I think it's the units,
00:03:49.360 it might be, I think it's micrograms per deciliter
00:03:51.320 for the zinc.
00:03:52.120 If your zinc level is less than 80,
00:03:54.300 your testosterone could improve,
00:03:56.460 could double just by zinc supplementation.
00:03:59.080 So make sure you check your zinc level
00:04:01.520 and men could be supplementing with zinc.
00:04:03.660 Zinc is of course found in a very bioavailable form
00:04:05.840 in red meat, animal foods, which we are eating less of.
00:04:09.140 Now, the thing with zinc, just to put as an asterisk here,
00:04:11.440 is that you don't want to take zinc
00:04:12.940 without copper long-term.
00:04:14.560 So if you do 15 milligrams of zinc,
00:04:16.040 you probably need at least one milligram of copper
00:04:17.840 if you're going to take it long-term. 0.75
00:04:19.140 But so many men could improve their testosterone levels
00:04:22.480 by checking their zinc level
00:04:24.100 and supplementing with a little bit of zinc.
00:04:26.180 Be aware of copper.
00:04:27.320 Hey guys, I am Paul Saladino.
00:04:29.020 You can find me on Manect.
00:04:30.120 If you have any questions about diet, health,
00:04:32.880 recovering from chronic illness or autoimmune disease,
00:04:35.200 I'm excited to connect with you guys all there, and I'll see you in there.
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