Jesse Ewell explains why normal testosterone levels aren't optimal. The standard range of 264-916 ng/dL is too wide to be useful. Free testosterone and sex hormone-binding globulin matter more than the total number alone.
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So they say your testosterone should be between 264 and 916. And that's a very wide gap. So if you were to, Jesse Ewell, to go to your medical doctor today and you had 300, they're going to go, hey, you're within normal. Like, you're right there. But Jesse, you know, as somebody who has owned gyms and been involved in this industry for many years, that 900 and 300 is two completely different things. Normal is not optimal. And optimal is where you want to be. That's where you actually live. Normal is where you die. Optimal is where you go to live, right? So when you take a look at blood work, that, that's— that total number or serum number is just a number. And the sex-binding globular hormone can actually attach itself to that number and make it go 150, 200 points up or down. This is why we do look at that number, because all the men want to know that number. But in actuality, we're looking at the free number, and that's a percentage.