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How Your Kid’s Sport Affects Your Hormones

Opposing forces As we’ve seen in previous articles on this site, external circumstances can influence testosterone levels. Sporting scenarios for example, typically give men in particular a serious boost. This ...

Altar Levels? Marriage & Testosterone

Ups and downs of married life It takes two, baby. A match made in heaven. Side by side through thick and thin. Going together like a horse and carriage. Growing old and wrinkly together. Inseparable. You know what

Breathe Easy: Testosterone May Help Chronic Lung Conditions

Busting a lung Most regular gym goers will be familiar with feelings of tiredness and breathless after a hard workout. If we’ve judged our performance level right though, these sensations usually come with a

Sweat The Small Stuff: An Unexpected Sign of Low Test

On the level Obviously to be absolutely sure of exactly how testosterone is doing it needs to be medically tested. These days we can either do this ourselves or go old school and have a doctor do it for us. If you

Just For Kicks: Eric Cantona Blames High T For Fan Attack

No show without flow If we asked you to name history’s greatest sporting moment, what would you choose? One thing’s for sure, whatever any of us picked, given its massive influence on athletic

Clothes Maketh The Man: Testosterone & Fashion

Perfect fit If you’ve been reading this site for a while now, you’re probably pretty clued up on the finer points of natural testosterone. So pop quiz hotshot; how might you be able to tell someone with

The Long Game: How T Improves Sexual Performance

How Does Testosterone Affect Performance? We’ve talked about how effective High Intensity Interval Training is for boosting hormones on this site before. Fair to say though, while short bursts of activity are

Critical Mass: T Battles Debilitating Result Of Cancer

Living large As we’ve said what feels like a thousand times now, healthily high testosterone can help us in countless ways. If it has a major calling card though, one thing it’s famous for in the minds

Does Your Race Affect Your T Levels?

A good mix These days it takes a special kind of ass clown to still believe a particular race is superior to another. But just because no race is inherently better than the rest, it doesn’t mean there

Testosterone’s Effect On Attractiveness

The look of love There are plenty of worthy reasons to raise your testosterone naturally. Better strength and stamina. To recapture some of that earlier vitality. Just trying to stay healthier generally. Or perhaps

Shrink Rap: Do Steroids Really Decrease Testicle Size?

Whither or not? Sit too close to the T.V and your eyes will go square. Quit making goofy faces, if the wind changes it’ll stay like that. Swallow chewing gum and it stays in your system for life. Do that to

Cortisol vs Testosterone

Heroes & Villains Anyone looking round this site might be under the impression we view natural testosterone as some kind of superhero. Well to be fair … you’re not far wrong. When you really think

Talking Balls: The Low Down On Your Testicles

Hang time The Chinese have something called Baoding balls. They’re for resting in your hand during periods of meditation and reflection. Now maybe you’ve never used these exactly, but chances are at some ...

Early Life & Testosterone Levels

Gene or scene? Name any aspect of what makes us who we are and chances are there’s an argument about how it’s shaped. Scientists have been nailing their colours to the mast on either side of the nature

Trick or Teat? How Milk Affects Testosterone

Don’t have a cow, man? Not so long ago milk seemed like a no-brainer. Models, movie stars and athletes all posed with that famous dairy moustache and asked, ‘Got Milk?’ Full of protein, calcium and ...

All My Lovin’: Natural Supplements To Boost Libido

Mojo a go-go Arguably, almost as soon as we develop a libido it’s causing us trouble. In your teens and 20s it’s because you can spend your days getting turned on not just by someone you like, but doing

Chin Up: Our Top Natural Mood Boosters

Stress test Almost by any measure you care to choose, research tells us these are pretty stressful times. On top of the more traditional pressures – bills to pay, work deadlines to meet and relationships to

Nobel Prizes and Testosterone

Good head The Japanese have a word, ‘Kenjataimu‘. It translates roughly as ‘sage time’ and describes our clarity of thought immediately after satisfying the evolutionary need for action