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Can you naturally increase your average testosterone level by doing this?

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  • #32
    Leo Fatkar
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 36 ✭Leo Fatkar


    Wibbs wrote: »
    That's completely contrary to years of research. Lower levels of testosterone in men bring a host of physical and mental problems including more signs of ageing and shorter life expectancies. Optimal healthy levels of test throughout life strongly influence health and longevity.

    One area where higher testosterone was implicated was in prostate health, particularly prostate cancer. However more recent studies have found flaws in the link and as usual it's more complex than that. Yes testosterone seriously revs up existing cancerous tissue, but men who had optimum levels throughout life had a lower risk of developing it in the first place. Men who had more regular sex and more orgasms throughout their lives also had noticeably lower risks. So remember lads shagging and **** saves lives. :D Would stop short of using it as a chat up line mind you... ;)

    Another area where it might impact longevity is testosterone can drive more aggressive risk taking tendencies, so high test guys are more likely to do things that could injure or kill them.

    As for raising lowering it via fiddling with yourself? Life is too short. Though this seems to yet another imported US nonsense, the whole "No Fap" thing among certain men's interwebs groups. Pure Bro Science(tm) and should be regarded as such IMHO.

    You want to optimise testosterone levels? Eat healthily(try to avoid pseudo oestrogens). Avoid too much alcohol, apparently beer being the worst for it(the hops content IIRC). Get regular exercise, particularly lifting heavy things. Compound weightlifting that hits your largest muscle groups(also promotes human growth hormone). Keep body fat as low as is comfortable, but not too low. Get regular quality sleep. Lower your stress levels. Shag as much as you can. :D Job done.
    Why are you avoiding the obvious. The graph is not implying any of that "no fap" stuff. It can't be, because there is a drop in testosterone after 7 days. It's merely implying that if one leaves a few days between masturbating, their testosterone will increase. Now if you're saying the research is false, then fair enough. But you don't seem to be saying it's false. I wouldn't be surprised, as most forms of pleasure in life that are too good to be true have some sort of price. One should not be whacking it two to three times a day. I keep it to no more than 3 times a week myself.

    Now other posters are saying that there are not any benefits to higher T levels. However you are saying there are benefits to higher T, but yet you're shunning how the OP has put two and two together. You're saying to jerk as often as you want in order to get higher T levels. Do you disagree with this research?


  • #33
    Wibbs
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    Leo Fatkar wrote: »
    Do you disagree with this research?
    The "research" is dubious. I'd prefer to see actual peer reviewed results involving the test levels of a larger cohort of men over time. Secondly there's a bit of a difference between pulling the skeleton outa yourself "two to three times a day" and a few times a week. The former would suggest a mental/physical issue and test levels should be the least concern.

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  • #34
    silverharp
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    I doubt there is any magic bullet out there, eat well, sleep well, be fit and be sceptical about supplements or "5 foods to boost your T levels". In passing somewhere it was mentioned that flirting with girls increases your Testosterone , I havnt checked the veracity of this but it might indicate in a more general sense that your mindset might come into play in some way.

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  • #35
    greenspurs
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    Wibbs wrote: »
    Secondly there's a bit of a difference between pulling the skeleton outa yourself "two to three times a day" and a few times a week. The former would suggest a mental/physical issue and test levels should be the least concern.

    You judging me ???? :eek:




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  • #36
    Leo Fatkar
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 36 ✭Leo Fatkar


    silverharp wrote: »
    I doubt there is any magic bullet out there, eat well, sleep well, be fit and be sceptical about supplements or "5 foods to boost your T levels". In passing somewhere it was mentioned that flirting with girls increases your Testosterone , I havnt checked the veracity of this but it might indicate in a more general sense that your mindset might come into play in some way.
    I don't think the OP was suggesting it was a magic bullet, perhaps just another step.


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  • #37
    dinorebel
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    I had to take Testogel for a few years but have been off it for about 5yrs had blood tests done recently and asked for Test to be tested as I thought it may be low again turns out it was on the high side of normal was pretty happy till the Dr said it's probably down to extra weight talk about bubbles being burst.


  • #38
    Wibbs
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    dinorebel wrote: »
    turns out it was on the high side of normal was pretty happy till the Dr said it's probably down to extra weight
    Good to hear you're on the mend D, but I have always heard/read that extra weight lowers testosterone? It's a fat soluble hormone so more gets locked up in fat tissue so less is in the blood and it's covnverted into oestrogen in fat tissue. In very simplistic terms muscle tissue promotes test, while fat tissue promotes oestrogen.

    What do you reckon helped bring it up D? Lifestyle changes and the like?

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  • #39
    Leo Fatkar
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 36 ✭Leo Fatkar


    dinorebel wrote: »
    I had to take Testogel for a few years but have been off it for about 5yrs had blood tests done recently and asked for Test to be tested as I thought it may be low again turns out it was on the high side of normal was pretty happy till the Dr said it's probably down to extra weight talk about bubbles being burst.
    What brought on the extra weight?


  • #40
    dinorebel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,283 ✭✭✭dinorebel


    Leo Fatkar wrote: »
    What brought on the extra weight?
    Food and beer:D




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