Keep your T-levels, lose the bad habits.

Testosterone is the man gene. It’s the chemical that when combined with the “Y” chromosome gives us the hard muscles, increased energy, healthy labido, and aids in sperm production. As builders we need it, we love it, and we wish it would never go away. Unfortunately for us, nature doesn’t work that way. Sometime in your 30’s your testosterone production goes down and keeps going down…until you die. Bleek, isn’t it? While ageing is inevitable, how you age is up to you. There are many things you can do to boost your testosterone like sleeping early, eating right, and working out but lets concentrate on the things you’re already doing but shouldn’t be! The things that are sapping your energy but you had no idea. These are the 5 things you didn’t know where seeping your testosterone.
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Not getting enough vitamin A

Being deficient in Vitamin A has nasty results on both sperm and testosterone.  Animal studies show that in Vitamin A-deficient animals, lower testosterone is followed by atrophy of the testes. You don’t have to get vitamin A from a supplements either, foods like carrots and yams are a great source of vitamin A.

Not getting enough vitamin D

Vitamin D has been correlated with higher free and total testosterone. Vitamin D deficiency is rampant because of indoor, sedentary lifestyles, and staying out of the sun. The solution is to either spend a significant amount of time in the sun or take a vitamin D supplement.

Varicocele. 

These nasty tangled systems of veins near the testicle that can affect testosterone and fertility. A varicocele is a varicose vein of the testicle and scrotum that may cause pain and lead to testicular atrophy (shrinkage of the testicles).

There are two forms of treatment, Catheter-directed Embolization (a non-surgical incision), and a surgical litigation. Both are fairly non-invasive with surgical litigation having a two to three week recovery period.

Overtraining

Overtraining lowers many of our most precious hormones, such as testosterone, and raises still others that ought not to be raised. You’ve got to slowly build up strength and endurance and make sure to get sufficient rest!

So there you have it, things that you’re already doing (or not doing) that are depleting your precious testosterone. Try remedying these things from your daily life and see if your T-levels go up.