As I am not getting any younger and testosterone levels go down with aging, I'm looking to enhance my production of it. I've been thinking about this for some time and recently read about the 'abs after 40' guy, who talks about how important stimulating testosterone is to burning fat and increasing muscle.

Would be nice to buff out at my ripe age, I'm in somewhat good shape but could certainly be better. One of my main interests is enhancing the healing of ailments, which is also aided by better testosterone. My ankles and knees get painful now and then and if I could improve that would be big.

I found this site:

7 Smart Ways To Boost Your Testosterone

They go over some of the stuff the 'abs' guy talks about, that is how the right kind of weight lifting will enhance testosterone production all by itself. Also talk about how eating fat and cholesterol help:

Here are some foods they recommend on that score:

I eat most of that now, a couple of other things interested me:

They also mention zinc and vitamin D.

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Some Food Additives Mimic Human Hormones - Scientific American

Be sure to get good clean fat. Industrial fat is bad stuff.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_D

A lot of bio chemistry types will tell you that vitamin D is a hormone.

Howdy cmac,
Just go to your friendly local neighborhood health food store. Someone should be able to help you.

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I've long avoided hydrogenated fats. Even as a kid I didn't like margarine. Tasted wrong to me. But I've going to have to watch out for that other stuff.

That's a good link. I rarely eat shellfish but that other item - propyl gallate – is something I'll have to watch out for. All the more reason to avoid baked commercial crap.

I need to finally get it together on water bottles. I gather the #1 bottles, the PET plastic is not as bad as the BPA stuff but I keep reading that the PET is far from perfect. I suspect I've been getting endocrine disrupters in my diet for years.

I have three 5 gallon water jugs that I've been refilling at the large commercial water filtration machines for about 10 years (?!). I looked on the bottom tonight, has #7 in the triangle. I'm finding some info that says the #7 rating is inconclusive, a sort of blanket category. Other info that it's bad, it's BPA. I had been under the impression that the 5 gallon jugs would be higher quality. Ass – u – me.

Hard to know which of this stuff is seriously bad and which isn't. One site says the 5 gallon jugs made of #1 are better. But then I also read that you shouldn't refill the #1 water bottles, the 1.5 liter type as they will leech chemicals. What a bleepin mess.

I mean, I'm not growing breasts but I'd like to get my chemistry ship shape.

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Hey man, how you doing. Good for you to check in.

Not a bad idea about the health food store. I've resumed my eating of fenugreek sprouts. An extract of fenugreek is thought to be a testo booster. They mention it in the link I posted. It's an ingredient in some spendy testo booster but I just found out you can buy the fenugreek extract by itself pretty reasonably. This stuff here:

Testofen Fenugreek Extract - 300 mg - Low Price - Swanson Health Products

Fenugreek has long been touted as a manhood/libido booster in various cultures. The sprouts will give your armpits a nice maple syrup smell if you eat them regular. Not the greatest tasting item but oh well.

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go to the gym and do some squats and deadlifts.

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If one has a prostate "concern", testosterone is de debbil.

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See a doc. They will do tests to get a baseline of your T along with other standard levels to see if something is at issue. After that you’ll get a reasoned basis for treatment.

You may not have a problem with low T and it could be something else. No one should speculate when blood tests will show if anything of note is at issue.

IMO it's best not to try to solve problems until you have a factual basis.......................

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That is a good point. Might be no problem at all with the T and moving to get more could be a problem.

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Yup. I'm expanding my lifting.

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Ya, ever since Bruce Jenner hit his 60's, his testosterone level has been dropping like a rock...

Something happened there all right.

My theory is that the guy was a flake from the git-go who happened to be an outstanding athlete. And tried to rest on his laurels from then on.

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They may have surgically removed his laurels.

dWatch your nipples. Apparently, fenugreek is also used by women to stimulate/increase lactation. But hey, on the bright side, you can have a second career as a wet-nurse

Oddly, the best way to stimulate T is to lose weight. Fat cells destroy T. Also, if you weigh less, the same amount of T will make for a larger concentration per kg of body weight. Get your azz on a bike, pound out 10-20 miles a day. Not that hard, it's an hour to 1.5 hours of riding. Takes less time than doing the gym hamster routine, especially if it can be combined with a daily commute!

I wonder if he gets dates and just who has been doing this