i'm gonna take a huge bite out of these testicles
all i did was remove the membrane here you can see the other membrane's fully intact here we go
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done all right guys so there's been a lot of influencers floating around the interwebs lately
promoting the ingestion of bull testicle for the purpose of increasing testosterone and so
after getting a handful of questions about this one over the last several months
i figured uh this might be a interesting video to make so let's go ahead and dive right in
a huge shout out to my friends over at let's get checked for sponsoring this video alright
so because there is just such little research on the consumption of bull testicles specifically
uh what i want to do kind of in the first half of this video is really kind of just step back
a little bit and look at organ and glandular supplementation as a whole and kind of look at
it from more of a historical perspective as well as some of the research that's been performed on
other glandular tissues before we end up specifically diving into the research and
what little research there is on the consumption of bull testicle now first off it is important
to note that there is a major difference between the consumption of organ tissue specifically and
glandular tissues now organ tissues are kind of like a broad term that's used to describe tissues
like the brain and the liver whereas glandular tissues are specifically kind of like a subset
of organs that produce and store hormones and these would include things like the thyroid gland
and the adrenal glands as well as the sexual reproductive glands like the testes and the
ovaries now where organ tissues are specifically consumed for their extremely high nutrient content
glandular tissues are usually consumed for their presumed high hormone content and glandular
tissues in particular are typically consumed by individuals with specific glandular disease states
like hypothyroidism and hypogonadism now when it comes to organ supplementation there is an
extremely rich history in almost every developed culture when it comes to the consumption of organ
tissues and they are typically looked at in these cultures as extremely nourishing foods and not
only are they typically looked at as extremely nourishing foods from a cultural perspective but
recent research also suggests that they are extremely nutrient-dense and do appear to
kind of fit the typical cultural narrative of being nutrient-dense foods now when it comes to
glandular supplements the benefits don't seem to be as clear and seem to be a whole lot more
obscure the consumption of glandular tissue also has an extremely rich history within many cultures
however typically glandular supplements are taken for their assumed hormone content as opposed to
the nutrient content of organ supplements however contrary to popular belief there may actually be
some legitimacy to the claims that these glandular tissues actually do contain high levels of the
hormones that they produce now specifically within the context of desiccated thyroid there does
appear to be some slight and albeit weak evidence that there may be some benefit to individuals
with hypothyroidism and the prescribing of desiccated thyroid also seems to be gaining some
uh momentum in specific uh practitioner circles as well however when it comes to the consumption of
bull testicles specifically the benefits seem to be a whole lot more obscure and a whole lot less
probable as well and here's why now when it comes to the thyroid gland producing thyroid hormones
the thyroid gland not only produces thyroid hormones but it also stores
thyroid hormone and so presumably when you consume a thyroid gland a desiccated thyroid extract
there is typically a high level of thyroid hormones in that extract however there is
a major difference between desiccated thyroid and desiccated testicle and the major difference here
is that testicles though they do produce the majority of testosterone in most mammals they do
not typically store testosterone and so when the testicles produce this testosterone it is almost
always immediately released into the bloodstream to carry out its biological effects and so because
of this there really isn't a lot of testosterone present in the testicles now in males specifically
it is estimated that male humans produce roughly seven milligrams of testosterone per day
and so it's estimated that in order to even get close to this amount of testosterone through
the consumption of bull testicle that it would take roughly a thousand grams of bull testicle
to equal the amount of testosterone that a human produces in a singular day and this is roughly
equal to about 125 grams of dried bull testicle which is just an extremely large amount of bull
testicle and is just simply an impractical means of testosterone ingestion now to be quite fair
there is likely some micronutrients that are found in high amounts in bull testicle that do lend to
testicular function namely zinc and vitamin a however my issue with consuming bull testicle
for the consumption of these uh vitamins and minerals is that they are found in abundance in
almost every other organ tissue namely the liver specifically and there may also be some precursors
and enzymes that are found in the testicles that might lend to increased testosterone production
however on the contrary there does seem to be some some weak evidence as well that if you do consume
bull testicle in high enough amounts to increase testosterone that it may actually be detrimental
to testicular function and so at this point if you are looking for something to increase testosterone
if you're looking to consume something that actually has testosterone in it is probably
actually going to be more safe and effective to just go on to trt so all in all when it comes to
consuming testicular supplements i would forego taking things like bull testicles simply because
again it is far more economical to just simply consume things like desiccated
liver which has a much higher nutrient content in it than bull testicle does and it is much cheaper
at the end of the day and if you're really looking to go all out on organ supplementation which i am
somewhat of a fan of i would opt for things like again liver brain and heart which have
specific nutrients in them that do seem to be a slightly more beneficial for overall health
when compared to things like bull testicle now if you're looking for natural ways to increase
testosterone levels one of the first steps is going to be actually getting a complete
hormone profile done everyone's hormones are at a completely different place and so there just
really isn't a one-size-fits-all approach to optimizing your hormone profile some guys have
low testosterone coupled with high prolactin and low estrogen while others have normal testosterone
levels but have high estrogen and low free testosterone and so the approach that is effective
for one guy may actually be detrimental to another and so if you haven't had your hormone profile
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ashwagandha supplement but other than that i think i will see you guys next time thank you so much
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