Testosterone makes you attractive, ambitious, competitive, confident, protective, and a host of other super-powers.


It's kind of strange that even though people generally know the effects of testosterone, it’s not discussed much in education outside of biology class, when in reality, testosterone, and the superpowers it brings, is more controlling of society. As of recent testosterone rates have been dropping drastically. The average testosterone levels of 18 year young men today is equivalent to
Testosterone levels of a 70 year old man in a the early 2000s.
You can always get your testosterone tested by going to DR or using only platforms like Everly.
Results Below 400 is bad
400-800 is the average
800+ is good

Let’s talk about the seven ways that you can boost your testosterone. These are natural things you can do.

The first thing is, to make sure you do not lower your cholesterol. You want to increase your cholesterol. Do not go on a low fat diet. Why? Because cholesterol is the precursor, the building blocks that help make testosterone. And that's one of the problems too, If your Doc puts you on Statins asks for an alternative because Statins block cholesterol, and that causes testosterone to be lowered. and that is one big challenge. So, if your on statin get with your doctor, and find out the real reason why your cholesterol might be high. Instead of just treating the symptom, let's find out what the actual cause is. But you don't want to go low on the cholesterol if you want high testosterone.

Let's talk about protein, moderate protein. A myth is that you need a lot of protein to stimulate your testosterone. No, you need a moderate amount. Now, what's a moderate amount? Well, I'd say about between six to eight ounces per meal. Now, I'm talking about the weight of the actual food, like a piece of steak or a hamburger, or something like that. I'm not talking about the grams within that, because the grams within that is a lot less.

But you just want to avoid too much protein. If you consume too much protein, you're going to get tired. And the reason why you're going to get tired is that you're... Half of it can easily be turned into glucose. So, when you turn it into glucose, because your body doesn't necessarily use amino acids as its fuel, some but not much. It has to be converted into glucose to be used as fuel. So, that excess amount of insulin that's triggered by the glucose, is going to block your testosterone. So, just do a moderate amount of protein.

Number three, you want to go low carbs for the same reason, because carbs increase insulin. So, if we keep our insulin low, we can enhance testosterone and other beneficial hormones, like growth hormone.

Number four, exercise but not just any exercise, but leg workouts. Working yours legs boost testosterone more than any other body part. That’s because your legs belong to a large muscle group.

Now, just as a side note, and I didn't put this on this chart, is that I always recommend when you do low carb, it's called keto, you also do intermittent fasting. Intermittent fasting improves growth hormone, and wherever growth hormone goes, testosterone goes, it tends to follow similar pathways. And so, intermittent fasting is vital to keep your testosterone levels normal, because if you're doing snacks and frequent meals, you're just going to increase insulin, and suppress testosterone. That is why a pre-diabetic, or someone with insulin resistance, or a diabetic, normally always has low testosterone, and that's going to affect your muscle mass and it's going to affect your libido, and your energy.

Number five, sleep. I struggle with this because I am always working. But I noticed the difference. It is Very important. Because we want to keep our cortisol lower. Increased cortisol, the stress hormone, we lower testosterone.

Next, We also want to keep estrogen on the low side. So, you want to avoid soy products, especially soy protein isolates, which is in a lot of diet foods, and like the fake meat and things like that. And then, you want to avoid things that increase estrogen. So, you want to do organic, because pesticides, insecticides, act like estrogen in the body. They're called estrogen mimickers, or endocrine disruptors.



Last few points, if you have a fatty liver, and you're looking down, you have a gut, you have a fatty liver, that's going to inhibit your ability to make testosterone. So, you want to work on removing the fat from your liver, by doing a moderate protein, low carb ketogenic diet. Also, if your iron is too high, that can suppress your testosterone, and it can destroy your liver. So, I always recommend if you're male, not to take iron supplements. Excess iron excess is very harmful to your liver. And it's very difficult for your body to get rid of iron.

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