The Least Expensive Natural Testosterone Booster – Supplements and Nutrition – COMMUNITY

Train hard, and you’ll absorb the vital minerals that keep your testosterone levels high and your testicles healthy. Here’s the easy fix.

Up to 85 percent of Americans are deficient in magnesium. This is a big deal because minerals are intimately involved in more than 300 biochemical reactions in the body.

Zinc deficiencies are uncommon, but they are equally dire threats to your health. This mineral plays an important role in hormonal status, cell division, wound healing, energy levels, and carbohydrate management, among other things.

While a deficiency of both minerals is bad news, a deficiency of both zinc and magnesium is even worse. Not only can it negatively impact your overall health, but it can also deliver a biochemical, steel-toed blow to your poor old gonads.

Without adequate amounts of these important minerals, testosterone levels drop and testicular function often diminishes to the point where your testicles need a walker to move, and this can be even worse for athletes.

To make matters worse, zinc and magnesium (along with some other minerals) are excreted through perspiration, so the more athletes exercise and work harder, the more zinc and magnesium are lost. This can lower testosterone levels even further, making it harder to make progress.

Magnesium deficiency is associated with the following general conditions:

• Dystrophy
• low libido
• Difficulty losing fat
• did not sleep well
• poor recovery
• muscle cramps
• anxiety
• weakness and fatigue
• eye twitch

While most research on zinc shows that it is strongly associated with testicular and reproductive health, research on magnesium shows that supplementation generally improves performance, possibly because the mineral increases testosterone bioavailability.

For example, one study showed that instead of binding to steroid hormone-binding globulin (SHBG), testosterone binds to magnesium, which increases free testosterone levels. (Which would also explain its muscle-building effects.)

For some reason, this phenomenon is more pronounced in people who exercise. Another study involving cyclists found that magnesium supplementation increased free testosterone levels by 15% in the sedentary group and an impressive 24% in athletes.

A third study involving kickboxing athletes found that athletes taking supplemental magnesium had significantly higher testosterone levels than sedentary subjects.

We know that strenuous exercise and sweating can exacerbate these mineral deficiencies, but diet or eating habits are likely at the root of most of our mineral deficiencies.

Carbonated drinks are a big problem because the phosphates in the drinks bind to the magnesium. The same goes for phytic acid in various grains. Sugar and caffeine also have an antagonistic relationship with magnesium, and the more you eat, the more you lose the mineral.

Zinc deficiency is caused by the aforementioned sweat-related losses, malabsorption, or reduced dietary intake due to avoidance of zinc-rich foods, or simply bad luck ingesting plant sources grown under less-than-ideal conditions.

We can try to eat more foods rich in magnesium and zinc, but as mentioned before absorption is sometimes poor and you never know how much you are getting from certain foods (due to poor soil, lack of enough sunlight, etc.) .

Assuming ideal growing conditions, you’ll still need to eat a lot of food to get enough. For example, chewing about 9 bananas may get you your daily recommended intake of magnesium, while pinching your nose, closing your eyes and eating a few cups of seaweed may get you your daily recommended intake of zinc.

Women can and should also supplement with ZMA® as they are prone to the same deficiencies as men, especially if they are athletes. For example, magnesium plays about the same role in testosterone levels in women as it does in men (albeit to a lesser extent). Likewise, zinc plays an important role in female fertility.