Testosterone production in men is systematically suppressed. A large part of this happens through food. Misinformation and marketing strategies led to the fact that today only soyboys exist. How to increase your testosterone production through proper nutrition🧵 (1/18)
1. Eat cholesterol Cholesterol is the building block of the sex hormones. Both estrogen and testosterone are built mainly with cholesterol. For a long time, scientists tried to explain that cholesterol was to blame for heart disease. But thanks to Ray Peat, we know this is wrong.
Cholesterol can be eaten without hesitation. The best source of cholesterol is eggs. It is important not to heat the egg, otherwise the cholesterol will be damaged and thus toxic to the body.
One egg provides about 300 mg of cholesterol, 10% of which goes into the synthesis of testosterone. Just drink a mix with minimum 5 eggs, milk and maple syrup three times a day. Props to @Babygravy9
2. Avoid Phytoestrogens Before eating any preprocessed food, check if it contains any of those ingredients: - Soy and other soy products (there's a reason Asian men don't have beards) - Sunflower oil - Flaxseed - Wheat - Rye - Pumpkin - Barley - Walnuts Don't eat.
3. Avoid PUFAs PUFAs are put on a pedestal by today's scientists. They are supposed to prevent arteriosclerosis and thus reduce heart disease. But the opposite is the case: Since about 1940, the consumption of PUFAs has steadily increased. So have coronary diseases. Coincidence?
PUFAs should not be eaten. They cause inflammation in the body, which increases cortisone. Cortisone is a stress hormone and indirectly suppresses testosterone.
4. Consume more saturated fatty acids Simply put: coconut oil and animal fats (especially anything from the cow! Cows are there to provide us with meat, milk and fat). In addition to cholesterol, saturated fat is also one of the building blocks of our sex hormones.
5. Eat Gelatine Correct. Gelatin is rich in glycine. And glycine is a strong anti-inflammatory amino acid. This means that when glycine is consumed, cholesterol goes down and thus testosterone is positively affected indirectly.
In addition, glycine helps regulate the metabolism of tryptophan, which also reduces stress and thus supports testosterone levels. Glycine or gelatin can be found in for example oxtail soup or simply gelatin from the supermarket.
6. Eat and drink sugar If coffee is drunk without sugar and milk, the glycogen stores of the liver and muscles are used up. This is because the metabolism ramps up. However, glycogen stores are only used up in stressful situations, which thus requires the release of cortisol.
This means that black coffee increases the level of cortisol. Put sugar in your coffee! Besides this, sugar (especially from fruits) helps thyroid function. If this is well regulated, it works against the cortisol and thus supports the testosterone.
7. Avoid Fluoride A Chinese study compared two groups of men. One group was systemically exposed to fluoride, while the other did not consume fluoride. It showed that the propands who ingested fluoride had 50% less free testosterone in their blood than the other men.
Fluorides are ARTIFICALLY added into salt, toothpaste and drinking water. Avoid fluorides at any cost!
8. Reverse Osmosis Filter It is often said that our drinking water is very good. However, this is not the case. Our governments are constantly raising the limits for pesticides, hormones and heavy metals. This means that there are substances in our water that do not belong in our
bodies. Fluoride is one example. Another critical substance is estrogens, which enter our drinking water unfiltered due to high consumption of birth control pills. We drink these female hormones without an effective filter to remove them first.
That is why I recommend you to buy your own reverse osmosis system. This will filter out everything except H2O from your drinking water.
