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He said, "I lift weights." He was a college athlete, really great college athlete. And he said, "You know, I'm eating really good." He told me his diet, and I'm like, "Man, that is really good." He said, "My testosterone's still low." But he was a type A achiever, working 50, 60 hours a week, you know, non-stop. Just like females, when when we are constantly consumed with stress, and we're constantly going in this fight-or-flight, uh in females, progesterone will be stolen away into into cortisol, right? With males, when we're in this fight-or-flight response, our our testosterone will be completely taxed. And so we have to get out of that fight-or-flight response in order to optimize testosterone. Well, in a very similar way, you know, there's this whole pathway that you're that you you're talking about, but you know, typically it's called this you know, cortisol steal, right? Where basically, cortisol, it's like your body's making a decision. Do I make stress hormones or sex hormones?
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