5 Levels of Testosterone Building
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• Micro nutrients
• Macro nutrients
• Detoxifying estrogen    
• Stop pregnenolone steal.  
• Resolving all nutrient deficiencies for total body energy.

Hormones like testosterone are the tip of the iceberg pushed up by everything else you can’t see, the whole system of the health of the body.
Hormones are more the effect of the strength of larger organs, nutrients and mitochondria producing energy that hormones help regulate.  
Sex hormones are the finishing touch, signaling fit to breed, when the rest of the body is ready to provide, and protect or grow a baby.
Testosterone optimization results from total nutrition, not just “taking this for that.”
Here are some key nutrients that have both direct and indirect effects on testosterone to push your tip out.
 
Micro Nutrients: Minerals & Vitamins
 
Everyone knows that zinc is a major nutrient for testosterone and many other functions: including immunity and detox.
What many people don’t know is how much copper you really need as cofactor of zinc and in general. There is no proof of the low RDA for copper around 1 mg and ratio with zinc 15:1 part copper. A realistic ratio varies from 1 to 3: 1. Look up The Copper Revolution.
 
Macro Nutrients
 
Cholesterol as a sterol is the building block of steroidal hormones: reproductive and adrenal hormones.
Cholesterol is not just for hormones, it is a general antioxidant that also protects the skin and makes the superior form of vitamin/hormone D sulfate on the skin when there is sulfur present, too. Superior because it is water soluble and can be made into fat soluble, which is the second most important form, that cannot be made into water soluble, as with supplements.
Cholesterol rich foods to consider are high in fat; meat, raw dairy and eggs.
One of the effects of testosterone, muscle, can’t take place without a lot of high quality.
Fattier beef if a great source of fat, zinc, and protein for muscle, but not copper at the levels you might need to catch up when deficient.
 
Detoxify Estrogen and Total Toxic Load
 
There is much awareness about supplements to detoxify estrogen as many women are estrogen dominant, and can also have too much or too little testosterone.
My concern is detoxification of total body burden to address under the tip of the iceberg.
You can’t just detoxify estrogen separate from total toxicity because it is the total health of the liver that determines what you can detoxify and everyone has more in there than can be measured.
 
There are many detox pathways and they can all be boosted with all the basic nutrients: vitamins, minerals, proteins like glutathione, fats, sun, etc. more effectively that medical procedures, sporadic cleanses, or binders alone.
One of the body’s major detoxifiers is metallothionein, which consists of copper, zinc and selenium.
Detox depends first on addressing all nutrient deficiencies.
Toxicity steals energy and ability to build muscle and collagen.
 
Stress  Steals Testosterone
 
Stress lowers testosterone and reproductive hormones of both sexes hrough “pregnenolone steal:”
It starts with cholesterol being made into pregnenolone that is then converted to dhea and testosterone, but stress hijacks the process to create adrenal stress hormones to mobilize energy quickly.
While the source the stress has to be addressed, there are many ways to stop the damaging effects. Let’s just say I have my secret weapons I won’t discuss here.
 
All Nutritional Deficiencies
 
Testosterone is built directly through certain nutrients, and indirectly through nutrients that support the direct nutrients.  All the nutrients working together as interdependent cofactors.
 
Studies show that magnesium can boost testosterone, without demonstrating any direct mechanism, which may exist, but also because it has thousands of functions as a basic nutrient that is at least a cofactor nutrient for direct T builders.   
 
We are only as strong as our weakest links or rate limiting factor.      
Our most important nutrient is what we lack the most at any time.
 
T can be manipulated by direct injection of hormones, but that will not improve overall health and it may draw too many nutrients away from other vital functions that should come first. 
 
A good indicator of T levels is morning wood.
Testosterone for the bone.
 
All these nutrients, like zinc and cholesterol, work similarly for women to produce progesterone and estrogen in balance, and with a touch of testosterone that women need, too.
 

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