Andrew Huberman· PhD
But it seems to be the Indonesian variety of tongkat ali that's most effective for potentially for reducing sex hormone and binding globulin and thereby freeing up testosterone.
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But it seems to be the Indonesian variety of tongkat ali that's most effective for potentially for reducing sex hormone and binding globulin and thereby freeing up testosterone.
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Yes, it'll increase their total and free testosterone.
Yeah, I feel like that's almost like a lowerhanging fruit thing because it's just typically part of a multivitamin that may just not be dosed high enough and you can just like stack on top and see if it has an incremental decrease to SHBG.
So one seems to work well for individuals who have high SHG levels or um potentially higher estrogen levels than they, you know, is otherwise fixable via basic lifestyle changes and whatnot. Um because everyone has their own proportion of metabolism at the end of the day. it's not always going to be optimal even if you have what is otherwise like a great diet and lifestyle. Um but also it's just like I think it's for people who have adequate everything looks on paper to be sufficient but their SHPG might be a bit high or they could use a little bit of a boost