Apparently testosterone does benefit men’s hearts....
Today's Post: Thursday, 9-24-2009
Testosterone definitely makes men more interested in sex and enjoy it more. So when older men begin to have less, many men have an interest in regaining some of their earlier and higher testosterone levels for exactly that reason.
Three things have been shown to increase your effective levels of testosterone.
1. Regular exercise is perhaps the best one to use because it produces so many other health benefits and has been proven to improve the sex lives of both men and women who do it -- particularly vigorous or more intense exercise such as interval cardio or similar exercises such as jumping rope; and progressive strength training. So such exercise improves your sex life and protects your heart in other ways in addition to increasing your testosterone levels. So, it’s possibly the most valuable method to use.
2. Taking the herbal supplement tribulus also increases testosterone.
3. Lastly, the amount of effective testosterone in your blood depends on whether or not it stays in testosterone form or is converted to something called DHT. If you are exposed to some estrogen simulating chemicals from pesticides or plastics or your milk or meat contains real or artificial estrogen, your body changes more of your testosterone to DHT and your usable testosterone is less.
So, if you use glass or metal food containers for storing or cooking foods instead of plastics, that can help. It can help to stick to eating meats only from animals fed only grass or only pasture fed and not eating the cheaper grain fed kinds as well as drinking only organic milk or milk from a dairy that does NOT use estrogen on its cattle.
But since some of that is out of your control or those things are already in your body, the really good news is that substances in cruciferous vegetables detoxify and reduce excessive estrogen and estrogenic compounds. And, since eating raw broccoli and or cauliflower cuts the incidence of the dangerous kind of prostate cancer in half, eating any cruciferous vegetable tends to prevent all cancers, and eating these nonstarchy cruciferous vegetables helps people avoid excess fat gain or to lose any they already have, eating cruciferous vegetables is one of the best ways to increase your effective testosterone levels. And, like regular exercise, it has many other health benefits.
In addition, it’s thought that the substance in cruciferous vegetables that does most of the detoxifying and reducing of estrogen and estrogenic compounds is DIM. That stands for Di-indole-methane, if I remember correctly. And, DIM is available as a supplement.
So, if you are older, doing these 3 things can increase your testosterone and will tend to improve your sex life.
Many months ago, Dr Al Sears, from whom I learned part of this information, also said that keeping your testosterone levels high also tended to protect your heart in addition to helping you feel sexier and enjoying sex more.
But since that seemed too good to be true and I knew so many other ways to protect my heart, I simply thought, “That would be nice if it was true.” And, I let it go at that.
Now, earlier this week, he may well have been proved correct.
It seems that some men who have diagnosed prostate cancer are given drugs that lower their testosterone levels as a way to slow the progression of the cancer. Earlier this week a study was reported that such men who were given these drugs and had lower testosterone levels had far more heart attacks and deaths from heart attacks than men who were not given the drugs.
So, it looks as if Dr Sears was correct. Apparently testosterone does protect men’s hearts.
Lastly, and even better, in this list of ways to boost your testosterone, regular and vigorous exercise also protects your heart directly.
And, eating cruciferous vegetables, particularly raw broccoli and/or cauliflower every week, tends to prevent both all cancers and the kind of aggressive prostate cancer that such drugs are prescribed for!
So regular exercise and eating cruciferous vegetables every week both make you sexier -- and protect your heart and protect your health in other ways.
Today's Post: Thursday, 9-24-2009
Testosterone definitely makes men more interested in sex and enjoy it more. So when older men begin to have less, many men have an interest in regaining some of their earlier and higher testosterone levels for exactly that reason.
Three things have been shown to increase your effective levels of testosterone.
1. Regular exercise is perhaps the best one to use because it produces so many other health benefits and has been proven to improve the sex lives of both men and women who do it -- particularly vigorous or more intense exercise such as interval cardio or similar exercises such as jumping rope; and progressive strength training. So such exercise improves your sex life and protects your heart in other ways in addition to increasing your testosterone levels. So, it’s possibly the most valuable method to use.
2. Taking the herbal supplement tribulus also increases testosterone.
3. Lastly, the amount of effective testosterone in your blood depends on whether or not it stays in testosterone form or is converted to something called DHT. If you are exposed to some estrogen simulating chemicals from pesticides or plastics or your milk or meat contains real or artificial estrogen, your body changes more of your testosterone to DHT and your usable testosterone is less.
So, if you use glass or metal food containers for storing or cooking foods instead of plastics, that can help. It can help to stick to eating meats only from animals fed only grass or only pasture fed and not eating the cheaper grain fed kinds as well as drinking only organic milk or milk from a dairy that does NOT use estrogen on its cattle.
But since some of that is out of your control or those things are already in your body, the really good news is that substances in cruciferous vegetables detoxify and reduce excessive estrogen and estrogenic compounds. And, since eating raw broccoli and or cauliflower cuts the incidence of the dangerous kind of prostate cancer in half, eating any cruciferous vegetable tends to prevent all cancers, and eating these nonstarchy cruciferous vegetables helps people avoid excess fat gain or to lose any they already have, eating cruciferous vegetables is one of the best ways to increase your effective testosterone levels. And, like regular exercise, it has many other health benefits.
In addition, it’s thought that the substance in cruciferous vegetables that does most of the detoxifying and reducing of estrogen and estrogenic compounds is DIM. That stands for Di-indole-methane, if I remember correctly. And, DIM is available as a supplement.
So, if you are older, doing these 3 things can increase your testosterone and will tend to improve your sex life.
Many months ago, Dr Al Sears, from whom I learned part of this information, also said that keeping your testosterone levels high also tended to protect your heart in addition to helping you feel sexier and enjoying sex more.
But since that seemed too good to be true and I knew so many other ways to protect my heart, I simply thought, “That would be nice if it was true.” And, I let it go at that.
Now, earlier this week, he may well have been proved correct.
It seems that some men who have diagnosed prostate cancer are given drugs that lower their testosterone levels as a way to slow the progression of the cancer. Earlier this week a study was reported that such men who were given these drugs and had lower testosterone levels had far more heart attacks and deaths from heart attacks than men who were not given the drugs.
So, it looks as if Dr Sears was correct. Apparently testosterone does protect men’s hearts.
Lastly, and even better, in this list of ways to boost your testosterone, regular and vigorous exercise also protects your heart directly.
And, eating cruciferous vegetables, particularly raw broccoli and/or cauliflower every week, tends to prevent both all cancers and the kind of aggressive prostate cancer that such drugs are prescribed for!
So regular exercise and eating cruciferous vegetables every week both make you sexier -- and protect your heart and protect your health in other ways.
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posted by David at 2:22 PM
2 Comments:
Thanks for sharing this blog! I used to try raising my testosterone naturally for a long time and since I put in the effort it totally elevated my liveliness in the bedroom. I have discovered that keeping a good diet is super important. After using all the herbal remedies I'm also wondering about exogenous testosterone cream. My older friend is using Andro-plus...has anyone else tried it? Seems legitmate but I don't know quite yet.
Anders,
1. Am not the best source of info on over the counter things to boost testosterone and tend to avoid them since so many use very bad quality control.
2. Tribulus from a reputable supplement maker does seem to work and may even have health benefits.
3. Tongkat Ali from a reputable supplement maker has been reported to increase free testosterone.
4. HOWEVER, since I wrote this post, I learned something.
Superslow strength training for 30 seconds, 15 seconds each way, or a bit less for just 5 to 7 repetitions per exercise AND continuously doing a bit more and adding weight when you can do 7 reliably DOES considerably more testosterone boosting than less challenging versions.
It's hard for the last few reps every time; but that extra effort plus good protein and rest of a day or two before the next session, DOES make you stronger and grow your muscles. And, some of that growth is caused by the testosterone it triggers your body to release.
5. Once you get older, topical testosterone may help but I'd use the kind you have to get a cooperating doctor to prescribe since it's known to be potent and is safer.
But hold off on that as long as you get results from the herbs and the strength training because using that or taking the prescription testosterone tends to turn off your natural production.
So go natural as long as you can.
6. Do as much work as you can on eating right and avoiding junk foods and refined grains and soft drinks. Do your best to cut down a good bit on sugar
Research shows the better you do on heart health and the less fat you have, the more blood flow you get and the better your nerves work and the higher your testosterone gets!
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