Hey guys, Dr. Axe here, founder of DrAxe.com and Doctor of Functional Medicine.
Today, I'm going to share with you my five tips for natural treatments for low testosterone.
If you have low testosterone, like many men do, you're going to find that these natural
cures will absolutely help you overcome it faster.
In fact, I think, after watching this video, if you implement my about five or six step
process here, you're going to notice changes in probably 24 to 48 hours, that fast.
The number one thing you can start to do to overcome low testosterone is start intermittent
fasting.
Now, intermittent fasting, listen to this, has been shown to increase testosterone by
400%.
That's amazing.
400% increase in testosterone if you do it along with weight training.
So, again, step one, intermittent fasting.
That basically means you skip breakfast and you eat your meals closer together.
You'll eat three meals per day, one at noon, one at three, and your last meal around six
o'clock in the evening.
So again, you'll do three meals a day, but you'll bring them closer together.
That's going to allow your organs to rest, especially your liver, which is so crucial
for naturally balancing hormones, especially testosterone.
So again, just doing that alone in the morning, you'll be drinking a lot of water.
You can also do some green veggie juice.
No sugar, but again just green veggie juice and water.
But that's really it.
Then at noon, you can consume your first meal.
So that's step number one, intermittent fasting.
Number two is heavy weight training, going in the gym at least three days a week, ideally
four or five days a week, and lifting heavy weights.
That's another thing.
If you do intermittent fasting, along with heavy weight training, you're going to find
that you are going to see huge results in your low testosterone.
Specifically, being in there at least 30 minutes, but as long as an hour or so, can be very,
very beneficial in doing heavy weight training to naturally boost low testosterone levels.
Step number three is add in a lot of healthy fat in your diet.
Most men with low testosterone are consuming too much junk food, too many carbohydrates.
You've got to get rid of that stuff and load up on healthy fat.
I want you to go for three categories of healthy fat.
Number one, healthy saturated fat.
You're going to find healthy saturated fat in coconut oil, in raw, fermented dairy products,
like raw goat's milk kefer and yogurt, even raw goat's or sheep milk cheese, those things.
Not conventional dairy, that will actually damper your testosterone.
Raw, organic dairy products or just coconut oil, those forms of saturated fat.
The other type of fat you need is healthy omega-3 fatty acids.
So consuming salmon a couple times a week or doing a quality fish oil supplement is
great.
Also flax seeds, chia seeds, and walnuts are also great for low testosterone.
You get those omega-3s.
Then mono-unsaturated fats, consuming an avocado a day or some olive oil, and almonds, those
would be the other ones that would really help get those healthy fats that can help
you naturally boost your testosterone levels.
Then step four is going to be detox your liver.
Your liver is so crucial, and for most men with low testosterone, if you struggle with
frustration, unforgiveness, anger issues, those things all drop your testosterone levels
over time.
So if you know that you struggle with anger, unforgiveness, resentment, any of those issues,
again especially a lot of men, resentment and frustration are huge.
I would write down a list of the people you need to forgive and forgive them.
You can do that just yourself, between you and God.
Or you can do that in person, but that really is important.
Along with, again, if there's somebody you resent, start working on your heart issues.
I really turn to the Bible for that.
You can also turn to other personal growth books for that, or seek out the help of a
counselor or a good church.
But really take care of those emotional issues, specifically resentment, unforgiveness, anger
and frustration, and you'll see that's going to really help you cleanse and detoxify spiritually.
It's going to also help naturally raise your testosterone levels.
Then number five, you want to make sure you're getting specific nutrients that can help boost
testosterone levels.
One of the most important is vitamin D3.
If you are low in vitamin D, it will absolutely crush your testosterone levels.
So you want to be getting out in the sun 20 to 30 minutes every day.
Listen, if you are not in the sun that day, if you live up North or if you are inside
all day, any day where you're not getting 20 minutes of direct sunlight on your skin,
you want to supplement with 5,000 IUs of vitamin D3, daily.
Again, not D2, vitamin D3 daily.
If you get your blood levels tested and you're extremely low, that's below 50, you typically
want to do 5,000 IUs twice a day, for three months, until you get those numbers up.
But listen, you can do everything in the world, but if your vitamin D levels aren't right,
your testosterone levels will stay low.
That's a very simple and easy thing you can do, just taking that D3 supplement to naturally
support testosterone levels.
A few other supplements that can help, adaptogenic herbs, like ginseng.
Ginseng has been shown to naturally support healthy testosterone levels.
A fish oil supplement, I mentioned earlier, you want the omega-3s.
Those omega-3s also may help in boosting testosterone levels as well, and those are some of the
most important supplements that you can be taking on a regular basis.
So, if you can follow those five steps, you are going to see great results in naturally
boosting your testosterone levels.
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Also, if you want to learn more about testosterone, I've got a great article on my website, DrAxe.com.
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That goes through my seven steps to overcome low testosterone.
Thanks for watching, guys.