Mindconnection Brainpower Informational eNewsletter 2023-05-21

I have a high testosterone level not just for a man over 60, but for a man of any age. It's nowhere near what a steroid user will have, but it is above the normal range. Both men and women need testosterone. Women have a naturally lower level and their systems are tuned to that level. Unfortunately, low testosterone levels are common among men and women.

Here are some tips on how you can have the testosterone level your body needs for proper functioning, lean mass, bone health, and endocrine system balance.

Eat clean

This is rule number one. It's also where people typically stumble the worst.

No wheat, corn, or soy. All three are contaminated with glyphosate, and most products made from these will spike your insulin. Insulin drives testosterone toward zero.
No refined sugars. Again, an insulin spike. A middle ground, if you have a sweet tooth, is to use moderate amounts of raw honey or molasses.
No fruit juices. Again, an insulin spike.
No trans fats. Margarine is poison. Treat it accordingly. A good substitute is organic butter made from the milk of grass-fed cows. No documented downside to it, and it contains fats that your body can put to good use.
No "fat free" or "low fat" substitutes for food. These always use some kind of poison to simulate the fat texture and usually contain HFC or some other endocrine modifier.
No vegetable oils or seed oils. Contrary to the idiocy spewed by the FDA, CDC, and other medically-illiterate "information" sources, these oils are poison. The reason is the lipids are shredded due to the heat needed for extraction.

Perhaps a few decades hence, the medical industry will catch up with the science and realize the obvious fact that these sharp-edged lipids cause the punctures that cause blood vessels to leak thus prompting the liver to produce cholesterol to seal the leaks. They might also connect the huge dots between the damage to brain cells and the accumulation of scar tissue (amyloid plaque) characteristic of Alzheimer's. Canola oil, often recommended by these useless agencies, is one of the most toxic oils sold for human consumption. You can also find it in pet foods, be kind to your pets and don't feed it to them either. Safflower oil is another poison; you can find conjugated lineoleic acid in the "weight loss" area of a supplement store. It's made from safflower oil, which is not only high in omega 6 but also is a shredded lipid oil. The cheaper olive oils are cut with linoleic acid; you can tell by their "mild" taste. An olive oil that is safe to consume has a strong taste.

Don't wait for these dullard "experts" to catch up with the science, act now and eliminate these poisons from your diet. Good oils include coconut, olive, walnut, avocado, and almond. Yes, they are pricey compared to the toxic oils, but don't make an apples to dog turds comparison please.
Eat cholesterol-containing foods. These include eggs, whole-fat (and grass-fed) dairy products (butter, cottage cheese, plain yogurt), and nuts. Contrary to the idiocy spewed by the FDA, CDC, and other medically-illiterate "information" sources, eating cholesterol does not raise your blood cholesterol. That's because stomach acid breaks it down into the building blocks of, among other things, testosterone.
Focus on whole foods, especially whole plant foods. These are loaded with nutrients and plant sterols.
Stop eating meat. This is heresy in the body-building world, but there's a problem with meat--it's loaded with toxins. Fish is contaminated to such an extent you should not eat it at all. Not just heavy metals, but plastics and various chemicals. Farm-fishery fish is the worst; all such fish lead diseased, stressful lives and are regularly doused with chemicals so toxic that the people tossing them into fish corrals wear hazmat suits. Beef is bad for a long list of reasons, including contamination with antibiotics, glyphosate, stress hormones, etc. From an environmental standpoint, livestock farming is the single most damaging human activity of all (clearing rain forests, depleting aquifers to grow the feed soy/corn/wheat, methane emissions, poop runoff into streams, etc..); plus the cruelty factor is a chart-topper.
Eat beets. I eat beet greens and beet root twice daily. If you don't like the taste, try dicing beets into small bits and adding raw to other foods. And/or buy a beet powder.
Eat spinach. This and other high-nitrogen foods will help.
Don't go light on carbs. A classic mistake is to cut carbs, which means you will lack the fuel for the hard workouts that stimulate testosterone production.

Train hard

While walking is beneficial, it will not stimulate the body to produce testosterone to any significant degree because walking does not require much muscle. To stimulate testosterone, you need to engage in very rigorous activity systematically and consistently. This is why body builders train 5 or 6 days per week. Each session uses big compound exercises that inflict heavy metabolic stress, and the body's response to that stress is to crank out the testosterone. No activity or training method does this as well as weight lifting.

Avoid cortisol

Consuming excess refined sugar causes a release of insulin, which is antagonistic to testosterone. But even if you eliminate sugar and thus the insulin problem, cortisol can easily be there to do the job. Some tips:

Don't sweat the small stuff. Annoyances happen all the time, getting upset won't solve them or prevent them.
Don't sweat the big stuff. You can't control what lunacy happens in national politics. It happens, just accept it as part of life. Speak out against it and vote against socialists, but don't let it occupy much mental space.
When your pet/child/spouse/friend does something that you might find upsetting, immediately switch to thinking of the benefits s/he brings to the relationship.
Spend some time daily in meditation, relaxing stretching, relaxing reading, or some other calming activity. Stroking a cat who is purring on your lap is especially effective.
Don't do the news.
Don't do antisocial media. If you have a Facebook account, cancel it. You won't be missing much.
Drive defensively. This helps reduce stress. Don't react to the increasing number of insane drivers. When someone tailgates you or passes you at 30MPH over the speed limit, don't react to that person. This person doesn't care what you think, or would not be driving in such a manner in the first place. For tailgaters, flash your flashers briefly; the tailgater will perceive brake lights and either back off or go around you.
Don't live in fear. Assess threats rationally, and take the appropriate counter measures. For Covid-19, for example, a rational assessment of threat and countermeasures would have precluded something as ineffective as wearing a mask or something as unsafe and ineffective as getting an experimental medical treatment. Risk of death from Covid for those under 70, nearly zero. For those over 70, a vaccine (if we actually had one), would pose high risk with negligible benefit. Going into a panic when encountering an unmasked person spikes cortisol unnecessarily, yet many people did exactly that.
Plan your schedule and allocate your time based on what is important to accomplish. This nearly eliminates the high stress of running late for appointments or trying to juggle multiple things at once.
End your day at a specific time. When it's quitting time, quit. The world won't end if that "one more thing" doesn't get done today. Do it tomorrow.
Take time to relax before bed. You fall asleep faster, have a more restful sleep, and reduce sleep interruptions. Read a book, pet your cat, or give your significant other a gentle foot massage.
Have good friends and take care of those relationships. In many ways, this will reduce your overall cortisol production.

Get sufficient sleep

Study on this subject and implement the needed changes. The average person can implement fifteen simple tactics to improve sleep. I won't list them here, look for yourself.

Test

Take a testosterone test before starting to implement these tips. Then take another one a month later. You'll see not only that what I told you is right, but that you should continue on this path. You can get the test kits from Pure Clean Performance. www.purecleanperformance.com They don't pay me to say that, I just really, really like the company.

Mindconnection eNL, 2023-05-21

1. Good News: Where the Intel is Good

2. Product Highlight

3. Brainpower tip

4. Finance tip

5. Security tip

6. Health tip/Fitness tips

7. Factoid

8. Thought for the Day

Authorship