For Gents

Supercharge your testosterone

 

Use these food to augment your manly essence and you'll get more muscle, lose more fat and improve your sex drive.

 

1. Eggs

Eggs are rich in healthy cholesterol, an important building block needed for your body to manufacture testosterone, found studies in the Journal Of Urology. They are also crammed with more protein than any other food and are loaded with testosterone-increasing zinc. The chicken breast is also a good protein-rich substitute.

 

2. Peanut Butter

Research in the International Journal Of Sport Medicine found that man who ate diet rich in monounsaturated fat - the kind found in peanuts - had the highest testosterone levels. Don't limit yourself to peanut; crack on to all varieties of nuts.

 

 

 

 

3. Plain yoghurt

Yoghurt offers a three-way attack against low testosterone by giving you the benifits of protein, zinc and fat. Research publish in the American Journal Of Clinical Nutrition found that when men had low zinc levels, they had decreased semen and testosterone levels. Other good source of zinc are oysters, beef, pumkin seeds and chicken liver.

 

 

 

4. Broccoli

Giving your man juices a lift can be as simple as swapping peas and carrots for broccoli and sprouts. Cruciferous veggies like these reduce oestrogen levels and make testosterone more prevalent in your body, found research in the journal Metabolism.

 

 

5. Whey protein

Protein is vital for the manufacture of testosterone, found a study in the Journal Of Clinical Endocrinology And Metabolism. You'll absorb 93 per cent in an egg, 85 per cent of the protein in whey protein, but only 74 per cent of the protein in a steak. Whey is also proven to help you lose body and build more muscle.

 

6. Cabbage

It's rammed with IC3, a phyto-chemical that increases your testosterone levels. A study at Rockefeller University Hospital, USA found that when men were given doses of IC3, their oestrogen (your female hormone) levels dropped by 50, while testosterone levels were boosted.

 

 

 7. Garlic

Eating more garlic will get you more sex. Garlic's active ingredient, allicin, enhances testosterone production, found a study in the Journal Of Nuteition.

 

 

 

 

 8. Oats

Oats produce chemicals that free more testosterone, which allows more of it to surge through your blood stream and and get to work to make you manliner. Research at the San Francisco Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality found that including oats in your diet improved men's libidos (can indicator of high testosterone) in just eight weeks.

 

9. Sunflower seeds

This rabbit food is a nutritional powerhouse of vitamin E. Research in the Journal Of Plant Foods For Human Nutrition found that vitamin E has a positive effect on your testosterone levels. Just 28g will give you 84 per cent of your RDA, making them the richest source you can eat.

 

 

10. Avocado

If you're going to consciously eat one food to increase your testosterone, choose an avocado. This is what you'll get: vitamins A,B,C,D,E and K, folic acid, potassium (which are all essencial for your testosterone gland to function efficiently), and helping of fats and fibre along with a small serving of zinc and protein.