Why Men Need Estrogen for Great Sex

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Man.

In today's episode, I'm gonna talk about.

Why you need to have estrogen in your body.

Estrogen is a female hormone and you.

Need that as much as a woman.

Now in a man you have about.

1, 100 of estrogen level compared to a woman and conversely a woman have only 1, 100 of the testosterone compared to a man.

But I want to mention that you need to have estrogen in the body.

As much as a woman because there.

Are very important function that you need.

To be aware of.

Now before I say this, the reason why I'm talking about because I see a lot of men that come in.

For hormone replacement therapy and in the clinic that they're going to, they give.

Them a medication called anastrozole. Now anastrozole is actually a cancer drug.

That is given to women with breast.

Cancer and it lower estrogen level. However, that is wrong because men need their estrogen too and estrogen come from testosterone. But if you jack up the testosterone level, your body is going to make more estrogen. But sometimes it's okay for a man to have estrogen. Estrogen level is healthy, it's less than about 60, and that's okay. But you don't want to have low level of estrogen because, and this is for a man, because estrogen plays an important role in your bone health, in regulating your cholesterol and fat metabolism and also maintaining your brain function and then also important in your sexual health such as libido and your sex drive and also being in the mood. Now estrogen is crucial for bone density, so men can also get osteoporosis as well because if you have low estrogen level and low is below 30, that can lead to increase in fracture bone loss, especially as you get older. Now estrogen is important in regulating cholesterol and fat metabolism because estrogen help control ldl, which is the bad cholesterol low, and increase hdl, which is the good cholesterol as well. So by doing that, it can also affect percentage of fat buildup in your body. Okay, so that's good because you don't want a lot of fat in love handles. You have a lot of fat in the love handle, it's going to be more inflammatory. Now estrogen is also regulate brain and mood as well. So it's good for cognitive health, for memory, emotional stability, and also protect against neurological decline or like dementia. So that's very, very important. And of course estrogen is necessary for libido, even erectile function and sperm maturation. So both the testosterone and the estrogen work together to regulate desire and overall erectile health.

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Now, too much estrogen can be problematic and when I say too much, it's probably more than 70. And it's okay if you're around 60s or so, but it needs to be monitored and well regulated. So men, if you're on hormone replacement therapy such as testosterone, you need to get your blood wound checked at least twice a year, maybe once a year after you've been on a steady dose. But because you need to check not only your total testosterone, but free testosterone level, your sex hormone binding globulin protein, which is shbg, and your estrogen, when you have too much testosterone, it gets converted to estrogen. But sometimes estrogen is okay. Sometimes when I treat my patient for testosterone replacement therapy, I actually want him to convert his testosterone to estrogen to and I measure that in the blood work. That's why following blood work is very important. Because if you have a high estrogen, then it needs to be controlled. If you have a low estrogen, then it needs to be controlled as well.

Because you have a low estrogen, it's.

Going to affect your bone density, can affect your brain health and your cholesterol regulation and even your libido. While testosterone, the dominant male who hormone, you want some estrogen and you want the ratio between testosterone and estrogen to be between 10 to 20 and anything less than about 8, ratio of testosterone on the top and estrogen the bottom. Anything less than 8 is not good.

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Strong bones, preventing osteoporosis and even fracture risk and also help memory, mood and cognitive function and help regulate cholesterol and fat and it help maintain your libido. So I hear a lot of my patients that they don't have any desire even though they're on testosterone. It may just be that your estrogen is low and it needs to be monitored. So please, if you're on testosterone replacement therapy or hormone replacement therapy, get your blood work checked. Check to see what your estrogen level is. Check what is your dihydrotestosterone level which is the DHT because that comes from testosterone as well and that's the byproduct of testosterone and DHT can cause enlarged prostate. So you want that level to be measured and your estrogen levels as well as your pre testosterone and your sex hormone binding globulin. So I hope this help in putting in context why you need estrogen and why estrogen work together with testosterone. In fact also why women need testosterone as well too because they also need muscle building and they also need the libido from the testosterone and also help with fat loss as well. So let me know what you think about the episode will mean the world to me. If you subscribe to the channel, click notifications, Share it with somebody you love. About 90% of people that watch our videos are not subscriber so subscribe and just know guys that there are options to ed. You don't have to suffer in silence and you are not broken and we are here as a resource for you. That's why I created the Modern Man Club. It's a safe and discrete space where I coach you and we work together to get you out of ED to sexual function again. We have done it thousands of patients so check out the Modern man club@noedman.com just know do not suffer in silence and you are not alone and you are not broken and I will see you in the next episode.

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