There’s a lot of buzz lately about boosting your total testosterone levels.
But it’s actually your free testosterone that you really want to raise.
That 2-3% of your total testosterone that is the only testosterone that's active,
and that does all the work.
And in today’s video, I’ll show your how to increase free testosterone levels
and I'll show you how to do it naturally.
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Yeah, you know, I get it. I see ads on tv and on the internet all the time
for supplements that will boost your total testosterone levels. Proprietary formulations, they claim.
But boosting you total testosterone won’t really do you any good.
When I boosted my total testosterone from 350 ng/Dl to 940, my free testosterone actually went down.
Not good.
Because it’s the free testosterone that generates all the benefits that arise from having your hormones optimized.
It’s what raises your libido and produces better erections.
It’s what enhances your cognition, your focus and your memory…and your mood.
It’s what packs on the muscle and maintains your bone mass.
It impacts your heart health, your energy levels and how much fat you're carrying around.
Your free testosterone is the only testosterone that is bioavailable, that can do any work.
Everything else is bound up and not bioavailable.
Yet free testosterone only makes up about 2-3% of your total testosterone.
In today’s video, that’s what we’re going to be talking about.
We’ll be discussing a little known supplement that will boost free testosterone levels by as much as a third.
That’s right.
This supplement has the potential to increase the levels of your free testosterone by almost 30%.
That’s pretty astounding. And it’s an all-natural supplement.
So, about 30 to 35% of the total testosterone in your body, is bound to a protein called albumin.
Now, this bond is fairly weak, and testosterone that is bound to albumin can be freed up.
But as much as 65% of your total testosterone is bound to another protein call Sex Hormone Binding Globulin…or SHBG.
And this bond is much harder to break. Once your testosterone is bound to SHBG, that’s it.
It is unavailable for use.
So, that leaves just a measly 2-3% of your testosterone that’s not bound to anything,
and available to provide all of its many benefits. The free testosterone.
This is where this little known supplement comes in, and it’s a trace mineral called boron.
Now, boron is a mineral that is found in the soil, but it’s not prevalent in many foods that we eat.
It can be found in foods like almonds, avocados, beans, chickpeas, brazil nuts and bananas.
But like I said, it’s not very prevalent.
Avocados are probably the food that it’s most prevalent in, yet there’s only about 1.7 mg per cup.
You’d need to eat about 5 avocados to get an adequate amount of boron.
And given that a fifth of an avocado is your typical serving size...you can see the problem.
And boron deficiency is on the rise.
The soil has become depleted in boron, among other things, due to over-farming.
The soil has less than half the boron that it had, compared to earlier in the last century.
As a result, most of us are deficient in boron.
The average adult only gets about 1.5 mg per day,
yet most of us need 3 mg per day just to maintain normal bodily function.
8 - 12 mg per day is the recommended therapeutic dose.
Only about 16% of the boron that we consume gets absorbed by the body…
the rest, about 84%, gets excreted in the urine.
Now, I know that seems like a lot, but in comparison,
only about 3-4% of the vitamin C that we consume is absorbed, and about 96-97% get excreted in the urine.
So boron is highly bioavailable.
Now, boron works in a number of different ways to improve your bodily functions.
Not only can it increase free testosterone levels naturally, it can temporarily block excess estrogen,
it can be used to increase muscle strength and bone mass,
it can help to improve mental clarity, focus and concentration,
it can be useful in developing muscle coordination,
it can decrease inflammation and it can assist in the treatment of arthritis.
So, let’s take a look at some of the benefits of boron, and how it achieves them.
First off, it increases the amount of free testosterone that you have circulating in your bloodstream…
and I think that the effect that most of us are looking for.
In one study, let’s call it study 1, male subjects took 10 mg per day,
and after just 1 week, their free testosterone had risen by an average of 28.3%. That’s huge!
In another study, let’s call this one study 2, after 4 weeks of taking 10 mg per day,
test subjects had an average increase of 11.4%.
Now, one of the ways that boron achieves this, is that it reduces that amount of SHBG in the blood…
that’s the Sex Hormone Binding Globulin that binds up 65% of your total testosterone.
With significantly less SHBG in circulation,
that's a lot less testosterone that winds up bound to a protein and unavailable to you.
And a lot more testosterone that remains free, active and available.
But boron does a lot more than just increasing your free testosterone levels.
It also can temporarily reduce the amount of estrogen in your system.
If you’re suffering from gynecomastia, better known as man-boobs,
then this aspect of boron supplementation will be of primary importance to you…
as one of the primary causes of man-boobs is excess estrogen.
So, back in study 1, after 1 week, subjects averaged a 39% reduction in estradiol levels.
But in study 2, after 4 weeks, estradiol levels had actually increased slightly.
So this reduction in estrogen may not be sustainable.
But later on, when I talk about dosing, I’ll show you a strategy for getting around that.
Another great benefit of supplementing with boron is that it helps to prevent vitamin D deficiency.
In another study, 13 participants with low vitamin D took 6 mg of boron a day, for 60 days.
19.6% of them saw a rise in vitamin D levels, 56% saw a rise in DHEA, and 29.5% saw a rise in free testosterone.
Boron does this by increasing the biological half-life of vitamin D levels in the body.
This means that vitamin D stays in the body longer, raising the levels of vitamin D.
And since vitamin D is critical to the production of total testosterone,
this could have a big impact on your total testosterone production.
Now, supplementing with boron also can improve your bone and joint health if you have osteoporosis.
In a study where 20 patients with osteoporosis took 6 mg per day of boron,
50% of them reported an improvement in their symptoms.
Now, this only works if you actually have osteoporosis.
If you don’t, then you probably won’t see any improvement in your bone or joint health.
But if you do, this is great news. And as aging males, most of us are at risk for this bone disease.
Boron supplementation also reduces inflammation, by reducing inflammatory markers called cytokines.
So, let’s wrap up this discussion by talking about dosing. Boron has an upper limit of 20mg a day.
An upper limit is the highest amount of any substance that you can take before it starts to exhibit signs of toxicity.
Now, there’s not a lot of agreement on what the proper dose of boron is.
I’ve heard of a recommended daily intake of 6-10 mg a day, and I’ve heard taking 10-15 mg a day.
I think that as long as the dose is in the 8-12 mg a day range, that should be OK.
Just remember that the Upper Limit is established for total boron intake…
that means the boron supplements that you take plus any boron that you consume in your diet.
I take 10 mg of boron a day, and I figure if I get another 1.5 mg from the food I eat, like most adults,
I’m still taking under 12 mg per day. Way below the upper limit.
Yet enough to have an effect.
Most boron supplements come in the form of boron citrate.
Now, one thing.
Although taking boron can initially reduce estrogen, taking it long term can actually raise estrogen levels.
Also, taking it long term can increase the risks of boron toxicity.
Now, here's that strategy that I was talking about earlier.
I recommend cycling your boron supplementation by going 2 weeks on and then 1 week off, before starting the next cycle.
This way, you can get the benefits of boron supplementation without experiencing the downsides of increased estrogen or toxicity.
And that’s it for this video.
Now you know how to raise free testosterone levels naturally, and your vitamin D levels,
while also inhibiting your SHBG levels, reducing estrogen and improving bone and joint health.
Just supplement with boron.
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