How To Increase Testosterone Naturally (Foods, Supplements and More)

David J. Rosenberg
Jul 29, 2017 · 3 min read

Okay, it’s time to talk about testosterone.

Testosterone is typically known as the “male hormone” even though both men and women produce it. Men just happen to produce so much more of it than women that we just decided to refer to it as the male hormone.

How… sexist?

Anyway…

There’s a whole lot of boring stuff I could tell you about testosterone, but I’m going to skip all of it and go straight to the point(s) that the vast majority of people reading this will actually care about.

And that is, testosterone is the hormone that plays the largest role in our libido and our ability to build muscle.

When it comes to muscle growth, the higher a person’s testosterone levels are, the better/faster that muscle growth will take place.

This, of course, explains why people with great genetics typically have naturally above-average testosterone levels, and why some people (e.g. bodybuilders) use various drugs (steroids) to unnaturally increase theirs to well-above-normal levels.

With these facts in mind, the rest of us are left with a bit of a dilemma: we want to improve our ability to build muscle, but we don’t actually want to use steroids.

And so that brings us to a question: how do we naturally increase our testosterone levels?

Testosterone Boosting Supplements

Most of the articles that attempt to answer this question tend to focus on the ever-increasing list of natural “testosterone boosting” supplements on the market.

However, I’m not going to do that here.

Why?

Partially because I just hate talking about supplements, and partially because the overwhelming majority of the supplements marketed as “testosterone boosters” are complete and utter shit.

Yes, even the newest supposedly magical herb they recently discovered deep in the mountains of Testosterania or whatever the hell the sales pitch may be.

While some of those kinds of supplements (e.g. tribulus terrestris and fenugreek) may indeed have some degree of beneficial effect in terms of increasing libido, they’re virtually all completely useless when it comes to actually increasing testosterone levels in any meaningful way whatsoever.

So, yeah. I’m going to skip right over this entire aspect of things.

(If, however, you’d like to know more about these types of supplements, including which are legitimately proven to provide any sort of real benefit to your libido or testosterone levels, then I’d recommend getting Examine.com’s Stack Guides.)

Here’s what we’re going to do instead…

What I want to focus on instead are simple factors within your life right now — things you are currently doing or not doing — that can be having a meaningful testosterone-lowering effect.

And then, even more importantly, I’m going to show you the extremely easy (and completely natural) adjustments you can make to stop, prevent and reverse these effects and increase your testosterone levels as high as they are naturally capable of being.

Sound like fun? Let’s do these 8 Natural Factors Affecting Your Testosterone Levels

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