6 Ways To Increase Testosterone Naturally

If you’re thinking about taking any kind of testosterone replacement therapy (TRP) – think very carefully. Think again, then think again. The reason for this is that TRP tricks your body into thinking it’s already producing enough testosterone, so it stops producing it naturally – and your testicles can shrink. No one wants that! To add insult to injury, when you come off it, you can feel incredibly low on energy and motivation and can suffer from severe depression – after just a month of using it.

Granted, we live in an age of “bandaid solutions” to any medical condition thanks to our culture – where we fix the symptom and never the cause. The media, our standard GP Doctor training and advertising from pharmaceutical giants have played a massive part in this way of living. Drugs are amazing for fixing emergency problems and are life saving, but for any long-term health conditions, they’re terrible. Most, if not all, illnesses according to the top experts (not your typical doctor) can be cured through nutrition and moving and strengthening your body. The sad truth is that the Standard American Diet (SAD) or typical Western Diet is pretty much the polar opposite of what we’re meant to be consuming as human beings. We’re poisoning ourselves. You can increase testosterone naturally through nutrition and strength and conditioning. Dr Oz has featured 6 ways that this can be done. I’d like to add a few points to his list; such as including plenty of healthy fats, like whole organic eggs, avocado, butter from grass-fed cows, nuts, seeds, coconut oil, fatty fish etc. Fatty foods are well known to stimulate testosterone production in the body – providing you’re eating the right types of fats. This does not include trans fats and hydrogenated oils – the most evil of evil!! A number of minerals are great for it too, such as zinc (also great for your immune system) and magnesium and a number of natural herbs stimulate testosterone production too. Check out what Dr Oz has to say…

If you’re on testosterone now and want to get off it, ask your doctor about clomiphene. If you’re not using testosterone but are thinking about it, here’s my advice: get your T level checked. If it’s low, get it checked again to make sure it was an accurate reading. Then, if it’s below normal and you have symptoms such as low libido, fatigue or depressed mood, do everything you can to raise your T levels naturally:

• Lose the belly. Fat can acts like a testosterone sponge, taking it out of the blood, where you want it!

• Cut the carbs: rule out bread, pizza, pasta, cookies or cake. Eliminate added sugar and regular soft drinks.

• Get more physically active – you don’t have to spend a lot of money, just get up and move, walk more, take the stairs, get a pedometer and aim for 10,000 steps a day…any extra exercise will help kick-start testosterone production. (But don’t go overboard – ironically, exercising too much can be as bad for your testosterone levels as not exercising enough!)

• Get enough sleep: testosterone is produced at night during the deeper phases of sleep. Guys who are sleep-deprived are testosterone-deprived as well!

• Have a physical exam. Some kinds of easily-correctable problems with the testicles, such as varicocele, can cause T levels to plummet.

• Avoid opioid pain killers – a known side effect of these drugs is disruption of normal hormone functioning, which includes hurting testosterone production.

If you have confirmed low testosterone (and symptoms) and you’ve tried changing your lifestyle along the lines I’ve just outlined, then and only then you might ask your doctor about using medications to increase your testosterone.

Read more on Dr. Oz.com

As I’ve mentioned a million times on the blog – the reason to lose the belly is down to belly fat containing the enzyme aromatase – which converts testosterone to oestrogen. The more belly fat you have, the lower your testosterone will be – so the less energy you’ll have, the lower your libido will be, the less motivated you’ll be and the more tired you will get. Lose that belly!!