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There are also natural ways to keep your own T level high, like healthy food Specifics? Evidence?

by dreamweapon 12y ago

woofyman 12y ago
Zinc, magnesium and vitamin D are essential for the production of testosterone.
- repsilat 12y ago
  The fact that they're necessary conditions for its production doesn't mean they're sufficient, though. It doesn't follow that you can just take a vitamin pill and get some sunlight and you'll naturally have high levels of testosterone.
  - collyw 12y ago
    The original post describe a healthy lifestyle, not just eating a few vitamins, but exercise, sleep and others.
  - cgh 12y ago
    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21154195 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21154195 The evidence is strongly suggestive that vitamin D supplementation has an effect on testosterone levels in men. On a purely anecdotal, personal level, I had my free test checked some years back, before I started vitamin D supplementation. After supplementing with 10,000 IUs a day for around a year, I had it checked again and it was significantly higher (I don't have the numbers now, sorry).
    - igrekel 12y ago
      10 000 IU a day? Was that a typo? How did you got that target? Just asking because I was considering 10 000 IU a week following my MDs advice (which is already higher than what it the normal off the shelf dose: 1000 IU a day).
      - vldx 12y ago
        I'm also taking 10,000 UI daily. Anything below 20,000 UI daily is fine and non-toxic. References - pubmed.
        kangax 12y ago
        Although safe, according to current search, there's no benefits from supplementing 10,000 UI daily (2,000-5,000 being recommended dose) — http://examine.com/supplements/Vitamin+D/ http://examine.com/supplements/Vitamin+D/ This doesn't prove that 10,000 is unnecessary, but there's no proof that it's necessary either :) (or is there?) On the other hand, just recently a Polish study showed 6,000 IU improving rowers metabolism and performance — http://suppversity.blogspot.com/2015/02/6000iuday-of-vitamin-d3-could-trigger.html http://suppversity.blogspot.com/2015/02/6000iuday-of-vitamin... However, it's unclear if lower dose would lead to similar results or if this is due to any other factors.
  - driverdan 12y ago
    If you're deficient you'll have lower test levels. That doesn't mean you can megadose vitamin D to get high test levels, just that if you don't have adequate supply you'll have lower than normal levels.

There are also natural ways to keep your own T level high, like healthy food Specifics? Evidence?

woofyman 12y ago

Zinc, magnesium and vitamin D are essential for the production of testosterone.

repsilat 12y ago
The fact that they're necessary conditions for its production doesn't mean they're sufficient, though. It doesn't follow that you can just take a vitamin pill and get some sunlight and you'll naturally have high levels of testosterone.
- collyw 12y ago
  The original post describe a healthy lifestyle, not just eating a few vitamins, but exercise, sleep and others.
- cgh 12y ago
  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21154195 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21154195 The evidence is strongly suggestive that vitamin D supplementation has an effect on testosterone levels in men. On a purely anecdotal, personal level, I had my free test checked some years back, before I started vitamin D supplementation. After supplementing with 10,000 IUs a day for around a year, I had it checked again and it was significantly higher (I don't have the numbers now, sorry).
  - igrekel 12y ago
    10 000 IU a day? Was that a typo? How did you got that target? Just asking because I was considering 10 000 IU a week following my MDs advice (which is already higher than what it the normal off the shelf dose: 1000 IU a day).
    - vldx 12y ago
      I'm also taking 10,000 UI daily. Anything below 20,000 UI daily is fine and non-toxic. References - pubmed.
      - kangax 12y ago
        Although safe, according to current search, there's no benefits from supplementing 10,000 UI daily (2,000-5,000 being recommended dose) — http://examine.com/supplements/Vitamin+D/ http://examine.com/supplements/Vitamin+D/ This doesn't prove that 10,000 is unnecessary, but there's no proof that it's necessary either :) (or is there?) On the other hand, just recently a Polish study showed 6,000 IU improving rowers metabolism and performance — http://suppversity.blogspot.com/2015/02/6000iuday-of-vitamin-d3-could-trigger.html http://suppversity.blogspot.com/2015/02/6000iuday-of-vitamin... However, it's unclear if lower dose would lead to similar results or if this is due to any other factors.
- driverdan 12y ago
  If you're deficient you'll have lower test levels. That doesn't mean you can megadose vitamin D to get high test levels, just that if you don't have adequate supply you'll have lower than normal levels.