As you likely know, testosterone
levels are on the decline. Testosterone levels have declined, some thirty
percent over the last 15 years
alone. We know that men's testosterone levels now are significantly lower than what they were in men.
Aged match men, some fifty years ago. So let's talk about natural ways to
support testosterone levels with a mineral known as
zinc. This was a paper that just came out in
March 2000. 23,
the title here is correlation between serum, zinc and testosterone a systematic review. And this study looked at over 38 papers that have
been published in the
last several decades.
Being a clinical trials and 30 animal model studies that were conducted in this review. Finding that zinc deficiency, reduces testosterone levels and zinc, supplementation, improves testosterone levels. Furthermore, the effects in the degree of zinc on serum testosterone may vary depending upon basil, zinc and testosterone levels and zinc, dosage form, and the type of zinc,
which is really important. But in
conclusion, there is a positive association with zinc, and total testosterone, and a moderate supplementation, can actually improve
Androgen levels.
In testosterone level. So I really want to dive into this because I get emails all the time. I see comments from men who have low testosterone, erectile dysfunction inability to maintain lean muscle mass. And there's a lot of folks that are considering going on Psalms or HRT or testosterone and
why even consider any
of those options until you've
exhausted all of the
natural resources and ways to support testosterone levels and health. And so zinc is so affordable and you can support your body zinc levels for like 50 cents a day and possibly
experience
Current
benefits when it comes to sperm motility and maintaining healthy testosterone
levels. So I want to read to you some
of from this study and also other studies because it's just it's
incredible that
this isn't Front Page News. Considering the fact that low T is like a phenomenon. Now as I mentioned, there's testosterone clinics on every corner men in their 20s and 30s are needing to stas from
why even bother with that. Until we've
exhausted every you know, safe natural solution
first. So the scientists say, zinc is an essential
nutrient for the human body and functions in maintaining protein.
Structure enzyme catalysis and information Transmission in the male reproductive
system. It plays an important role in gonadal development,
spermatogenesis, motility and hormone synthesis IE testosterone and other androgens testosterone. They say is an androgen mainly synthesized and secreted by the leydig cells of the testes in the mail. It is an essential steroid hormone in male individuals, growth and development which maintains secondary sex characteristics and promotes the maturation and release of sperm testosterone. Signaling maintains
Blood tests e barrier function and integrity, which plays
an important environmental factor for germ cell development and sperm
formation. But they say that zinc deficiency leads to structural changes within the testicles and a testosterone synthesis through oxidative stress and the toffee. G, adversely affecting the normal development of male, gonads affecting also spermatogenesis and
fertilization, Studies have shown that the main reason for the
reduction of testosterone levels and zinc. Deficiency is a change in the enzymatic conversion of testosterone.
The testes zinc deficient leading sales fail to convert ingested. Sex steroid, precursor into active hormones. So it's really involved in the
conversion from say dehydroepiandrosterone or DHEA
into testosterone. Now, it's important to recognize that several. These studies don't outright say this in, this is me just
inferring from what I've read and read extensively on this correlation between low, zinc and low testosterone.
Is a lot of excessive ejaculation
possibly by masturbation with porn and
pornography could be actually driving.
Ying one factor driving
zinc deficiency. Also, people are not consuming animal products and Foods, enriched, and zinc, and possibly consuming excessive amounts of phytates and other anti-nutrients that, that binds think not eating a lot of whole grain
foods and so forth. But that is really important to recognize that zinc deficiency
could be in part by excessive masturbation. We know that porn addiction is quite common and that is really important to consider. But let's talk more about the Androgen receptor and zinc. This is actually even more fascinating because
some people have high serum testosterone,
They feel like crap and I've had many clients who are actually on trt their levels are super
physiologic, but they still don't feel as though they have adequate testosterone. The scientists say, the Androgen receptor a zinc, finger protein is the target of
testosterone in start, Oli cells, and some nefarious.
Tubules of the testes, the conversion of testosterone to its active form. Dihydrotestosterone DHT requires 5, Alpha reductase which is dependent on zinc for its activity so that could be part of it as well. Testosterone is high, but it
Not getting converted to DHT and that is affecting Androgen synthesis. In receptor binding,
they say zinc deficiency may lead to decrease male hormone receptor activity. I just want to read that again, it's really important. Zinc deficiency may lead to decrease male hormone receptor activity. Therefore, zinc plays an important role in the by Logic function of testosterone, not only in the synthesis, but on the receptor binding, really important. Now before we continue on, and talk about these other studies, I do just want to mention in the description below, I
will link some products that I recommend to my clients who have
Or suboptimal testosterone levels
including zinc, also,
morning wood, which is that bovine testicular, extract that can be very effective for helping to maintain and support hormonal health and men as well as DHEA. This can actually be under recognized. I've gotten so many direct messages from men with their testosterone levels, their sexual Mumbai ending levels in this Akash. I don't feel
all that good and they're DHEA
levels are quite low. Like around 80,
you really want to optimize this especially if
you're wanting to support hormonal Health again in Perry and postmenopausal women. And
Men of all ages. Also in the description below. I will include some zinc that I recommend, which is
a zinc bisque glistening chelate, zinc bound, a
glycine, a very bioavailable form of Zinc that can be effective around 50 to 75 milligrams per day. Usually at night is the dosages. So I'll link that below the URL is myocytes. Our combat, all everything will be linked below,
But continuing on here, this was another recently, published study the title of this and this was published in 2020. Use of medicinal dosages of zinc as a safe and effective adjuvant for the
Men of male
hypogonadism. So again, there's so many men that are hypogonadism, low testosterone, erectile dysfunction, low sperm, motility, low, low sperm count and we're focusing on all these other things. Right, from synthetic exogenous testosterone, why aren't we
talking about this 50 Cent
per day or less treatment known as zinc?
Because we know that if you sweat, if you exercise, if you go in the sauna, if you're not eating
a lot of whole real foods, you're eating a lot of grains. It contain anti-nutrients that bind to these
minerals. You could have a zinc deficiency, if you're watching a lot of porn and masturbation.
And every single day or twice a day, you can induce a zinc deficiency. So
it's really important to
recognize that zinc plays, a very important factor, and this was published in a journal here,
the Aging male, a lot of really good articles come from
this and they talk about how zinc should be a primary treatment
for hypogonadism and low testosterone in men, and they go into all the details and how it works and some great
images. But I also want to share with you this study going back to 1996. So it sounds like this, researchers knew this paper was published in 1996, the title here, zinc status.
And serum testosterone levels in healthy adults. And what they found here is when they were able to induce a zinc deficiency. In adults, there was a commensurate
reduction in testosterone
levels and so this is really a causative Factor zinc deficiency. That is lowers testosterone levels and conversely when zinc was supplemented testosterone levels linearly increase. So again for 25, 50 cents a day. If you're trying to support testosterone levels, especially if you go in the sun, if you exercise of you sweat intentionally for all
the
the benefits that we talked about
before, we know that zinc is one of, the, the minerals that is released in
sweat, if you're very sexually active with your partner and or you masturbate with porn ejaculating, a
lot, you are possibly inducing a zinc deficiency because we know that zinc is
concentrated in the testes in the leydig cells and before its
impacts in testosterone biosynthesis. And so if you're burning through your zinc on both ends through a lot of ejaculation and sweating and not
getting enough micro nutrition from your
diet then,
Why shouldn't you have low testosterone? Because we now know that there's an intimate correlation and
we could arguably say that zinc is causative
in terms of inducing, a testosterone insufficiency, if you
have low zinc levels so
this was an interesting study going back to 1996.
There was also a really interesting Journal here in the American journal of clinical nutrition. The effects of dietary, zinc, depletion on serum, volume and zinc loss serum testosterone, concentrations, and sperm, motility and men. And this was the study that
I was mentioning here where they
They had men.
Look at ejaculation volumes and quantify zinc there in and Seminole loss of kind of for a nine percent of total body, zinc loss. So a lot
of ejaculation will deplete your zinc Body store. And
so again, they say that there was a zinc loss of one
point four milligrams per day with frequent ejaculations.
So, if you're not, at least getting that from the diet, may be on a vegan
diet or you're sweating a lot of, you're exercising a lot, you could be putting your body at risk for zinc deficiency and therefore, it's a
From
deficiency. So the scientists say, the findings suggest that serum testosterone, concentrations seminal volume and total seminal. Zinc loss per ejaculation, are sensitive to short-term
zinc, depletion in young men. So if you're trying to conceive trying to have a child, then you should definitely consider supplementing with and in my opinion, 50 to 75 milligrams of zinc per day, every trying to optimize testosterone levels, just to be healthy have better brain health, more drive, more Vigor in your life, body composition sex.
Drive libido, aim
for 75 milligrams per day. Now, there are zinc copper ratios that you obviously need to consider. But if you've been running it as ink deficit for a long time, I think
several months of supra, physiologic zinc supplementation in the order, as I mentioned, 50 to 75 milligrams of zinc, Bisson, glisten a chelate
would be worthwhile. So, again, several studies show this
correlation, I think this should be Front Page News. Especially considering that so many men now have low testosterone, and there are Health
ramifications linked with low
testosterone.
Increased risk of cardiovascular
disease, cerebrovascular, disease, depression in some resistance. Increased belly
fat. This is not like a benign condition. Here, low testosterone. This men need healthy levels of testosterone. We know that men tend to have higher rates of in subsistence pre diabetes
cardiovascular disease. So we should be optimizing
testosterone with low cost and really low side effect profile Endeavors like zinc supplementation. So
hopefully you found this helpful
along with this research. I think this is just incredible.
Really fascinating and I wish more people were talking about it. So I appreciate you sharing
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