Chris Krüger came to hormone optimization the same way I came to this podcast — through watching his father navigate the medical system, get the wrong answers, and pay for it with his health. Chris's father battled prostate cancer for six years after a life of insulin resistance and low testosterone — a cascade that the conventional medical system addressed with food pyramids, Glucerna shakes, chemo, and radiation. What it never addressed was the hormonal environment that allowed the disease to take hold in the first place.

Dr. Justin Marchegiani started as a personal trainer watching the conventional nutrition recommendations fail everyone he worked with. He moved into functional and chiropractic medicine — got called a quack for it — and spent the next 15 years building a practice that asks the question conventional medicine is structurally incapable of asking: why do you have this problem?