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"More on the testosterone connection in a moment.) Choose the Right Carbs It's not just a "high-carb" diet that's responsible for the surge in insulin and its resulting effect on acne. The Kitavan Islanders ate a diet almost 70 percent carbohydrate—but they never saw a Twinkie or a processed breakfast cereal. Their carbs came from tubers, fruits, and vegetables, which is considered a low-glycemic, or low-sugar, diet." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.) "Not Just a Man's Mineral Zinc has something of a reputation in the men's health magazines as a "guy's" nutrient, largely because it is critical for the production of both sperm and the male hormone testosterone. (Little fun fact: The reasons oysters are thought to be such a "sexy" food—even an aphrodisiac— is that they're loaded with zinc.) And the normal human prostate gland has a higher level of zinc than any other soft tissue in the body, compared to cancerous prostates, which have a lot less zinc than normal ones. Then there's the infertility connection." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"Through the ages, testosterone, not alcohol, has been the primary chemical mediator of lust in both men and women. I submit that the Middle Ages were awash in testosterone, compared to the Modern Age, in which testosterone has slowed to a trickle. In New York City, sperm counts, which are dependent on testosterone levels, have dropped 10 percent in the past twenty years. With each feeble orgasm, the male New Yorker produces only 150 million of the little fellows, 180 million tops." - Oscar London, From Voodoo to Viagra: The Magic of Medicine: 37 Uplifting Essays from a Doctor's Bag of Tricks (Get the book.)

"Daily For Those Over 30 • Progesterone cream for both men and women. • testosterone balancing formula for both men and women. Periodic • 2-4 times a year: colon cleanse and detoxification program. • 2-4 times a year: blood/liver detox. If seriously ill, the detox programs above are to be done immediately—back to back. Then, take one week off and repeat, and repeat again as long as necessary. • Four times a year: fast on fresh juices (absolutely not bottled or canned) for 3-7 days. If you prefer, you can combine the quarterly juice fasts with the colon and blood/liver detox programs." - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.) "In studies, these two herbs & Nettles increased free testosterone levels an astounding 105% on average! Green oats and nettles work naturally with the body to enhance sexual desire, sensation, and performance in both men and women. The effect on human sexual appetite is powerful. Both men and women can feel a boost in sexual desire—sometimes after only a few hours. Both men and women experience an increase in frequency of orgasms while taking wild oats and nettles, while many women experience a dramatic 68% increase in multiple orgasms." - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.)

"Large doses of peppermint may affect male libido by decreasing testosterone. Some people have allergic reactions to peppermint and it may worsen gastroesophageal reflux symptoms. Probiotics Probiotics such as acidophilus and bifidobacterium are beneficial bacteria. If these products are not refrigerated, they may be a dead culture, which does not help the beneficial flora to grow. Take as directed on the label. They help re-colonize the beneficial bacteria in the GI tract. You always have bad and good bacteria in your gut." - Heather Caruso, Your Drug-Free Guide to Digestive Health (Get the book.)

"Zinc finger-like structures are important for proteins that regulate hormones, such as testosterone. Zinc is also found in the proteins of viruses; one example is the human immunodeficiency virus. Zinc's Antioxidant Role Zinc is an important component of superoxide dismutase (SOD). The free radical Superoxide is made of two paired oxygen atoms with an extra electron. Superoxide dismutase is an important antioxidant enzyme that converts superoxide free radicals into oxygen and hydrogen peroxide." - Dr. Steve Blake, Vitamins and Minerals Demystified (Get the book.)

"Not only are you getting fake hormones that don't do all of the jobs done by the real hormones, but their presence in your body suppresses production of your own hormones—estrogen, progesterone, and even testosterone. These hormones are considered "reproductive," but each has other roles. Estrogen stimulates mental and physical energy, in addition to breast development and other female characteristics. Progesterone, which is needed for healthy pregnancy, is also calming to the nervous system. testosterone is essential for energy and libido." - Hyla Cass, M.D., Supplement Your Prescription: What Your Doctor Doesn't Know About Nutrition (Get the book.)

"For example, a high-fat diet increased prostate cancer incidence and shortened the latency period in Lobund Wistar rats treated with exogenous testosterone to induce the tumors [139]. Conversely, prostate tumor growth rate was reduced by a fat-free diet in Dunning rats [140] or by lowering dietary fat intake in athymic nude mice injected with LNCaP cells (a human prostate cancer cell line) [141, 142]." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"In addition, as their testosterone levels drop with age (see next section), there is, in many cases, a concomitant tise in estradiol levels—the major reason that many older men develop breasts. Just as with women, estradiol stimulates cell growth' in men too and is potentially cancerous. This is one of the main factors involved in the dramatically increased incidence of prostrate cancer. In other words, any man over 30 years old would be well advised to supplement with a natural progesterone cream. 'Estradiol stimulates the BCL2 gene, which is the gene responsible for stopping cell death." - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.)

"Signs of poor endocrine function are low estrogen or testosterone levels, which can result in a wide variety of symptoms, including lowered sex drive, infertility, fatigue, feeling hot or cold, mood swings, and excessive sweating. Recommendations for supporting the health of your endocrine system include detoxification (through the process in chapter 4), nutritional therapies, lowering stress levels, and proper rest, as well as enzymes to support the digestive and immune systems and balance the body's pH levels." - Tom Bohager, Everything You Need to Know About Enzymes to Treat Everything from Digestive Problems and Allergies to Migraines and Arthritis (Get the book.)

"And pumpkin seeds contain chemicals called cucurbitacins, which are believed to intefere with the production of a metabolic by-product of testosterone known as DHT (dihydrotestosterone). DHT is partly responsible for both hair loss and benign prostate hyperplasia. Men want to keep their DHT as low as possible—believe me, I know. Prostate health aside, these delicious seeds still pack a great nutritional wallop." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth About What You Should Eat and Why (Get the book.)

"It seems that 7-Keto may provide most of the benefits of regular DHEA, but since it can't be converted to active androgens (e.g., testosterone and estrogen), it should prove to be much safer and have minimal side effects.The only downside is that 7-Keto is brand new and there have been no substantial clinicals to support it. All in all though, if you're looking to supplement with DHEA, 7-Keto probably makes the most sense. Note: Many people use supplements containing Mexican Wild Yam (Discorea villosa) as a DHEA supplement." - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.)

"DHT is thought to be partly responsible for male baldness, and a high conversion of testosterone to DHT in women is thought to be connected to a host of "male" symptoms like hair loss (on the head) and hair growth (on the face). This conversion—in both men and women—is fueled by an enzyme called 5-alpha-reductase. Saw palmetto helps to down-regulate this enzyme, meaning a reduction in the amount of DHT. Saw palmetto also contains compounds that act as anti-inflammatories. Note: It's always good to rule out cancer as a cause of the urinary symptoms." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"In large quantities in our bodies, it converts to both testosterone and estrogen. Most of the studies on almost all of these hormones have been very short-lived, that is six months to a year. So the long-term effects are not well known. The best source of information on hormones is Marc Blackman at the Washington, D.C., Veterans Affairs Medical Center, or Mitchell Harman at the Kronos Longevity Research Institute in Phoenix, Arizona. They've done the most sophisticated studies and probably the best ones we presently have on the hormone story. ARE VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTS HELPFUL?" - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.)

"The Impact of testosterone Imbalance on Depression and Women's Health." Maturitas 41 Supplement (April 2002): S25-S46. Shaldubina, A., et al. "The Mechanism of Lithium Action: State of the Art, Ten Years Later." Progress in Neuropsychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry 25 (2001): 855-866. Tiemeier, H., et al. "Vitamin B12, Folate, and Homocysteine in Depression: The Rotterdam Study." American Journal of Psychiatry 159, No. 12 (December 2002): 2099-2101. Tuthill, R. W. "Head Lead Levels Related to Children's Classroom Attention-Deficit Behavior." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"In addition to cancer, dioxin exposure has been linked to birth defects, inability to maintain pregnancy, decreased fertility, reduced sperm counts, endometriosis, diabetes, learning disabilities, immune system suppression, lung problems, skin disorders, lowered testosterone levels, and many other problems. Dioxins accumulate in fat cells, and have been found in fat-containing milk." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.) "A number of researchers are exploring the relationship between mercury exposure and testosterone levels, which may help account for this gender gap.) The rates also vary by region. New Jersey, for example, has the highest ASD rates in the country, with approximately 1 in 94 kids diagnosed with some form of autism. You can't look at these numbers without wanting to ask a whole lot of questions. I know I did. What's behind these sharp increases? What causes autism and ASDs, and why do so many more kids have them than ever before?" - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"Serum testosterone levels had the best correlation with breast cancer, even better than estrogen. Of note is that increasing levels of testosterone significantly increases the risk of both breast cancer and prostate cancer. testosterone rises as well with increasing levels of obesity, and being overweight is another consistent risk factor.41 What makes the data from the China Project so intriguing is that breast cancer incidence is so low in China compared with Western countries and that animal-food consumption is so much lower than in America." - Dr. Joel Fuhrman, Eat to Live: The Revolutionary Formula for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss (Get the book.)

"Our concept of hormone replacement is going to expand to include more than just estrogen, or testosterone. It can be used for an enhanced sense of mood, slight memory improvement, awareness, mental ability enhancement, clarity of thinking, maybe a little more creativity. A lot of aspects of our mental condition will be helped because pregnenolone is made in the human brain, like DHEA. The enzymes are available that convert cholesterol into pregnenolone within the human brain, so these neurosteroids are within the brain, they have a function there." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"Hormone restoration/replacement (estrogen, progesterone, and/or testosterone) in men and women must be evaluated carefully, with a full and careful assessment of the risks and benefits on an individual basis. In men, this includes a careful assessment of prostate cancer risk, and in women, a detailed risk/benefit evaluation with careful attention to hormone-responsive cancers of the breast and endometrium. It is essential that you work closely with a qualified, experienced doctor well versed in hormone replacement/restoration to maximize effectiveness and minimize risk." - Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.) "This suggests that DHEA's conversion into testosterone may be at least partly responsible for the beneficial effects it has on insulin function. Before you take DHEA, consult with your health-care provider so he or she can determine the optimal dose for you. We strongly recommend that you have your DHEA levels checked several weeks after starting supplementation to make sure your levels are in an optimal range. The typical dose for DHEA supplementation is 15 to 75 mg daily, taken in the early morning." - Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.)

"FSH and LH persist at high levels throughout menopause, while your ovaries go on a well-deserved retirement, no longer producing monthly cycles of progesterone or estrogen, and leisurely chugging out about one-half as much testosterone. We can learn from this aging process. What Is Estrogen? Before we go into too much detail about how to use estrogen, let's talk about what she is exactly. You know from chapter 3 that your natural estrogen is not the same as horse estrogen found in mare's urine, but there are many misconceptions about natural estrogen." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.)

"Get your testosterone levels checked. your waist circumference is greater than 40 inches (man) or 35 inches (woman), you are at a high risk of insulin resistance. High insulin levels (fasting hyperinsulinemia) can be defined as levels equal to or greater than 15 uU/mL (microunits per milliliter), but levels greater than 10 uU/mL also suggest risk." - Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.)

"Presence of testosterone in males, which exacerbates toxifi-cation. 10. Genetic factors that contribute to all of these various assaults upon the nervous system, immune system, and gastrointestinal system. If you're learning to be a good medical detective, you're probably looking at that list and saying, "Those are the same basic factors that contribute to autism." You're right. The root causes of both disorders are similar. That is why I consider ADHD to be, in effect, part of the autism spectrum. It's why many kids have features of both autism and ADHD." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"The body uses pregnenolone to convert into DHEA, which in turn converts into estrogen and testosterone or other antigens. Pregnenolone can also convert into progesterone. In fact, all the hormones made by the adrenal glands start out from pregnenolone and therefore, I call pregnenolone the grandmother of all the adrenal hormones. "We have known about pregnenolone since the early 1930s. In the 1940s, some of the research included giving it to factory workers. They found that it improved work performance. People were more energetic, there was an antifa-tigue factor." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) "Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) Secretion in Healthy Older Men and Women: Effects of testosterone and Growth Hormone Administration in Older Men. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism (August 22, 2006). Needleman, Herbert L., ed. Human Lead Exposure. Boca Raton: CRC Press, 1991. Needleman, Herbert L., et al. "Bone Lead Levels and Delinquent Behavior." JAMA 275 (1996): 363-69. Needleman, Herbert L. "Environmental Neurotoxins and Attention Deficit Disorder." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"Other underlying causes include increased consumption of cooked animal fats and trans fats, heavy metals, agrochemicals, vitamin D deficiencies, mineral and vitamin deficiencies in general resulting from a diet of nutrient-poor processed foods, and hormonal imbalances and deficiencies such as a deficiency in testosterone. Lifestyle habits also play a role—obesity, emotional stress, inadequate sleep, and lack of exercise. Dr. Cleave's cross-cultural work, however, highlighted the main issue, which was an excess increase in the consumption of white sugar. In 1959 G. D." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.) "There is not much research about testosterone and women in this system, so there is little we can say about it. We can take this back to understanding Syndrome X, which has the underlying physiology and symptoms of hyperinsulinemia, impaired glucose tolerance, Type-2 diabetes, obesity, hypertension, dyslipidemia, heart disease, and the inability to lose weight. N. M. Kaplan has observed that hyperinsulinemia precedes these disease states, which is a very important thing to understand in this whole process.111 The risk of ischemic heart disease is 4.5 times greater with elevated insulin." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"A natural steroid hormone that is a precursor for androstenedione, testosterone, and estrogen, DHEA is sold as an oral supplement to improve memory, mood, and other endocrine functions. Because of its association with the sex hormones, particularly estrogen, it was thought perhaps to have an effect on cognition. However, a recent review by the Cochrane Collaboration—an evidence-based healthcare database centered in Oxford, England—demonstrated no consistent positive benefits in several studies." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.)

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