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Keeping Your Hormones Happy with Christian Unger
Published 2 years, 2 months ago
Description
Do you have questions about hormone health or hormone replacement therapy? For this episode, I welcome back Christian Unger, who is well-versed in hormone health, specifically sex hormones and muscle tissue. He is a PhD candidate and has a wealth of information on his subject. This was a very informative episode and I know you'll take something from it.
What we discussed:
- His excitement over becoming a father (2:04)
- Preparing for fatherhood and his wife's pregnancy (5:10)
- Powerlifting (6:54)
- His dissertation topic (9:33)
- Exercise and nutrition with a focus on metabolism (10:09)
- Explosive training for fitness and aging (13:30)
- Muscle strength, hormone levels, and diet (19:35)
- How leanness affects testosterone levels (23:07)
- Hormone levels and the importance of reverse dieting after a competition prep (25:42)
- Exogenous hormone therapy vs. lifestyle changes (29:03)
- The downfalls of hormone replacement therapy and how to combat them (32:16)
- The importance of prioritizing sleep (40:38)
- Sleep hacks (42:31)
- Data that he's seen with sex hormones in muscle tissue (44:54)
- Supplementation (52:47)
- Importance of expanding the knowledge on hormone replacement therapy (53:57)
- The dangers of "majoring in the minors" (57:08)
- What he's excited about going forward (1:00:52)
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