Most men over 40 who feel tired, foggy, and flat get told the same thing: your testosterone is low, here's a prescription. Functional medicine practitioner Ollie Matthews makes the case for the opposite order of operations.

In this episode, men's hormone coach Ollie Matthews (OJ Health) explains why your hormones are a readout of how you live, why the gut quietly runs your hormones, and why he treats testosterone replacement as the last step, not the first. He shares his own story of crashing his hormones during a bodybuilding phase, rebuilding them as a new dad, and the framework he now uses with clients.

Ollie Matthews is a functional medicine practitioner and men's hormone coach, and one of the first UK practitioners accredited under Harvard-affiliated Dr. Datis Kharrazian. He's the creator of The ONE Method and works with dads who want their energy and confidence back. After losing his own father young and later rebuilding his health from a deep low, his mission is to help a million dads not die before seeing their children grow up.

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• Low testosterone is often a signal of sleep, alcohol, training, and stress, not just a number to medicate
• High SHBG can leave total testosterone "normal" while usable free testosterone sits at the bottom
• Replacement therapy works best as a last step, after the basics are genuinely handled
• The gut supplies the raw materials your body uses to build hormones, and helps clear them too
• Fiber tolerance is a quick window into gut health
• Stress perception, not just the amount of stress, drives much of the damage
• Build foundations like Everest base camp, because people fall off fastest right after hitting a goal
• The deepest, most durable motivation is usually personal, in Ollie's case, being there for his daughter

00:00 Why "your testosterone is low" is usually the wrong starting point

01:48 What functional medicine actually means

02:54 The lifestyle factors that quietly suppress testosterone

05:54 Why blood work only tells part of the story

11:17 The marker most doctors skip (free testosterone vs total)

13:43 Ollie's story: losing his dad, burnout, and bodybuilding

19:11 Hitting rock bottom and the road back as a new dad

24:49 The ONE Method: Own it, Nourish it, Elevate it

27:50 The Mount Everest model of building health

33:19 Aesthetics vs health, and why psychology matters most

45:11 Why fixing your gut helps fix your hormones

50:23 Stress perception vs stress level

59:00 The question about men's health nobody asks

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How to get the nutrients modern food misses, even when you eat clean. In this episode Nick walks the full chain from seed to cell and shows the simple fix.

He makes the surprising, hopeful case that closing your nutrient gap is one of the easiest health upgrades in 2026.

Nick is the founder of Outliyr and host of the High Performance Longevity podcast. A bioharmonizer and performance coach, he blends modern science with ancestral wisdom to decode what actually moves the needle on energy, healthspan, and performance.

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• The "balanced diet means no supplements" model is decades out of date
• North America once grew 17,000+ apple varieties; stores now carry ~10
• Across 43 crops (1950-1999), zinc fell 27-59% and calcium 16-46%
• Milling white flour strips 70-90% of B vitamins; ~80% of magnesium is lost in processing
• Glyphosate was patented as a mineral chelator and an antibiotic
• Organ-meat intake dropped ~90% since the 1970s, cutting choline and B12
• Modern water and modern life raise your nutrient demand
• The fix is simple: eat the most nutrient-dense food you can, then close the gap with a smart stack

00:46 The "supplements are a waste" myth

02:24 Seeds & the varietal collapse

04:21 What 50 years did to the soil

06:32 How produce is grown today

10:01 What processing strips out

12:11 Glyphosate & farm chemicals

15:00 The foods that left the modern plate

16:46 Why your water lost its minerals

17:37 Why your body needs more now

24:28 How to close the gap

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Here's how the hardest reset on the planet actually works, and how to do it safely.

Theo Lucier has spent over a decade studying dry fasting through his project Forgotten Health and his guided program Dry Fast with Friends. He breaks down why a true dry fast is different from a water fast, how the body burns fat for its own water, the endogenous stem cell release on day 5 and 7, and why the way you exit matters more than the fast itself.

Theo Lucier is a natural health researcher and supplement formulator, founder of Forgotten Health, and co-creator of the Dry Fast with Friends community program with Sean McCormick. After overcoming severe chronic fatigue and 16 years of one-meal-a-day eating, he now focuses on dry fasting for stem cell release, cellular detox, and energy.

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• A dry fast turns 100 grams of fat into 115 grams of metabolic water from within
• A water fast breaks down muscle and organ tissue; a dry fast spares lean mass
• A 5-day dry fast triggers one wave of stem cell release, a 7-day triggers two
• The Russian fat-loss method: a 24-hour dry fast plus a 6.2 mile walk, twice a week
• Day 3 is the hardest, when the body switches from glucose to ketone metabolism
• A soft dry fast with hydrogen peroxide baths supports detox better than a hard one
• Dry fasting is one of the few ways to quickly eject deuterium from the mitochondria
• Pre-tox for months first if you carry heavy toxic load
• How you refeed matters more than the fast: no sugar, sip water slowly to avoid edema

00:00 Important safety disclaimer

02:42 Introduction

04:21 What dry fasting is & what it feels like

06:06 Dry vs wet fasting (gluconeogenesis)

07:49 How 100g of fat becomes 115g of water

12:26 Endogenous stem cell release explained

16:48 The Russian "AK47" fat-loss method

22:44 Cortisol, stress & why day 3 is hardest

28:23 Changing your fat set point vs GLP-1s

40:02 How to pre-tox before a dry fast

47:19 Exiting safely: the most important part

58:32 Why dry fast "with friends"

1:02:16 Community results: mood, injuries, parasites

1:09:06 The program & how to join

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