It would be nice to get member's opinions on foods to avoid with an emphasis on the impact on testosterone. I have my opinion and suspect you have to take a lot of some of the ones I read about, but some are pretty obvious and just make sense for overall health anyway. I am concentrating on foods/products that impact testosterone especially for the members who are natural or cycle/pct/take significant time off. It is well known low testosterone in men is linked to shorter life spans and serious diseases.
I have read papers on almonds being good and being very bad for testosterone production. More research is needed but I won't stop eating a few almonds from time to time for their health benefits. The reason it is recommended to avoid is it's impact on SHBG.
Another which is kind of common sense is canola oil (similar type oils). There are animal studies that indicate it reduces your natural production. Better options that are deemed healthy like olive oil is recommended.
Soy in higher levels in also linked to higher estrogen/lower testosterone. I don't eat it, but curious if people do and their perspective. In other words creating a less masculine society/men. This includes muscle mass, bone strength, confidence, mental health, etc.
Albeit not a food - BPA's in drinks/food in plastic containers are known to be hormone killers. A quick search will show why BPA's impact your testosterone. In particular bottled water (plastic bottles) especially if it gets warm/hot, increase the amount leached into the H20 and into your body/hormone receptors. In general, as I am sure most know - almost everything you eat for health should not be processed and doesn't come in a plastic/some sort of a container.
I have read multiple articles on peptide usage and in particular BPC157/TB500 and how eating organ meat (red meat is not pissed on in the articles I read) will naturally increase BPC157 and how they are excellent sources of protein, in turn a healthier diet / higher testosterone production.
This is just a quick start as there are too many too mention, would appreciate other opinions from other members. If you ever have the opportunity to read on the studies with men who chop wood by hand like I did long before people delivered it your house for your wood stove and its result on testosterone. The results were staggering albeit this is not related to eating or not eating foods (off topic).
I grew up in a small village where almost everyone had a farm, wood stoves/furnaces, and/or fished. The technology was not available to do it for you, further most would save their money and do the work themselves. I wrote before about the strength some of these men (even the ones who were not huge) was incredible. Some men looked they worked out in a gym everyday/others looked normal but could throw a saturated bale of stray to the top of a trailer with one hand - as a 16 year old who worked out, I could barely get the damn bales with both hands half way up the pile of straw. There was a 60 year old man in the village nicknamed tiny, and he was not large but was known the strongest or one of the men in the village. They grew their own food, killed their own animals for meat, etc. and worked long hours doing physical work. Thinking back of my time living there, backs up a lot of what I read.
I have read papers on almonds being good and being very bad for testosterone production. More research is needed but I won't stop eating a few almonds from time to time for their health benefits. The reason it is recommended to avoid is it's impact on SHBG.
Another which is kind of common sense is canola oil (similar type oils). There are animal studies that indicate it reduces your natural production. Better options that are deemed healthy like olive oil is recommended.
Soy in higher levels in also linked to higher estrogen/lower testosterone. I don't eat it, but curious if people do and their perspective. In other words creating a less masculine society/men. This includes muscle mass, bone strength, confidence, mental health, etc.
Albeit not a food - BPA's in drinks/food in plastic containers are known to be hormone killers. A quick search will show why BPA's impact your testosterone. In particular bottled water (plastic bottles) especially if it gets warm/hot, increase the amount leached into the H20 and into your body/hormone receptors. In general, as I am sure most know - almost everything you eat for health should not be processed and doesn't come in a plastic/some sort of a container.
I have read multiple articles on peptide usage and in particular BPC157/TB500 and how eating organ meat (red meat is not pissed on in the articles I read) will naturally increase BPC157 and how they are excellent sources of protein, in turn a healthier diet / higher testosterone production.
This is just a quick start as there are too many too mention, would appreciate other opinions from other members. If you ever have the opportunity to read on the studies with men who chop wood by hand like I did long before people delivered it your house for your wood stove and its result on testosterone. The results were staggering albeit this is not related to eating or not eating foods (off topic).
I grew up in a small village where almost everyone had a farm, wood stoves/furnaces, and/or fished. The technology was not available to do it for you, further most would save their money and do the work themselves. I wrote before about the strength some of these men (even the ones who were not huge) was incredible. Some men looked they worked out in a gym everyday/others looked normal but could throw a saturated bale of stray to the top of a trailer with one hand - as a 16 year old who worked out, I could barely get the damn bales with both hands half way up the pile of straw. There was a 60 year old man in the village nicknamed tiny, and he was not large but was known the strongest or one of the men in the village. They grew their own food, killed their own animals for meat, etc. and worked long hours doing physical work. Thinking back of my time living there, backs up a lot of what I read.
