Testosterone & Fertility Decline

The decline in testosterone and fertility rates is a disturbing trend with consequences for the health of individuals and public health at large. In the video I discuss natural approaches to increasing testosterone and improving endocrine function.

Recommended reading - Estrogeneration by

Estrogeneration: How Estrogenics Are Making You Fat, Sick, and Infertile (Chagrin and Tonic Series) https://a.co/d/91b1hmF

Useful research articles:

Decreased T in Men

Population-Level Decline in Serum Testosterone Levels in American Men | The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism | Oxford Academic (oup.com)

Decline in Serum Testosterone Levels Among Adolescent and Young Adult Men in the USA - PubMed (nih.gov)

Decreased Male Fertility

Male Reproductive Disorders and Fertility Trends: Influences of Environment and Genetic Susceptibility - PMC (nih.gov)

Is human fecundity declining? - Skakkebæk - 2006 - International Journal of Andrology - Wiley Online Library

Decreased Female Fertility

Female Fertility and Environmental Pollution - PMC (nih.gov)

Sleep & Cortisol

Sleep, testosterone and cortisol balance, and ageing men (nih.gov)

Diet & Nutritional Factors Including Micronutrients

Diet and Nutritional Factors in Male (In)fertility—Underestimated Factors (nih.gov)

Diet

Western-style diet, sex steroids and metabolism | Elsevier Enhanced Reader

Vitamin D

Vitamin D treatment improves levels of sexual hormones, metabolic parameters and erectile function in middle-aged vitamin D deficient men (tandfonline.com)

High Protein Diet

Low-carbohydrate diets and men's cortisol and testosterone: Systematic review and meta-analysis (sagepub.com)

Alcohol

Alcohol’s Effects on Male Reproduction (nih.gov)

Flavonoids

antioxidants-09-00237.pdf (nih.gov)

Physical Activity

Growth Hormone(s), Testosterone, Insulin-Like Growth Factors, and Cortisol: Roles and Integration for Cellular Development and Growth With Exercise (nih.gov)

Physically active men show better semen parameters and hormone values than sedentary men - PubMed (nih.gov)

Dopamine / Competition

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0079612316300577?via%3Dihub

Ashwaganda / Withania somnifera

4076430.dvi (nih.gov)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8166567/pdf/nmaa134.pdf

Tongat Ali / Eurycoma longifolia

Eurycoma longifolia (Jack) Improves Serum Total Testosterone in Men: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Clinical Trials (nih.gov)

Fadogia Agrestis

aja_v7i4_399-404.MDI (asiaandro.com)

Fenugreek

nmaa134.pdf (nih.gov)

Mucuna pruriens

Mucuna pruriens improves male fertility by its action on the hypothalamus-pituitary-gonadal axis (fertstert.org)