5 Ways to Boost your Testosterone levels Naturally!

Rohan Monga
4 min readOct 27, 2021

-Testosterone is one of the most favorite hormones for all the males out there especially bodybuilders or all alpha males.
Having a high level of testosterone is generally associated with high confidence, High self-esteem, High muscles mass, and low body fat.

Basically, all the desirable traits that any man would want.

Now Before we begin with the main topic it is important to understand that, what is testosterone and why it is important?

What is testosterone?
Testosterone is a male primary sex hormone, that gives males its characteristics, like deep voice, facial and body hair, a reason to watch mia khalifa, motivation, and lots of things that makes you a man.
This hormone is produced both in males (primary) and females(secondary)

Why it is important?
Having optimal levels of everything that nature has blessed us is important, if your testosterone levels are under the normal value you may tend to suffer from certain things like depression, low sex drive, Erectile dysfunction, and certain bad things that you would never want in your body.
This is why it is important to keep one testosterone level in check.

How we can boost it naturally?

  1. Eat more healthy fats

-Just like any other hormone in your body testosterone is also synthesized and produced by dietary cholesterol in your body which you get from healthy fats.
Hence a diet rich in healthy fats or consuming a good amount of fats is essential to keep your hormones functioning optimally, thus you can surely add coconut oil, virgin oil, desi ghee(Clarified butter), butter, avocado, soaked dry fruits, seeds, nut butter, fatty fish, chicken thigh, etc
to make sure that you consume a good amount of fats in your diet and your body is producing testosterone efficiently.
also, this is one reason why you should not remove fat from your diet

2. Lift weights

When you lift the weight, your body undergoes a certain level of stress and tension that is produced by the resistance of weights, which pushed your body again the comfort zone of your body and enable you to produce more testosterone, hence make sure that you go to the gym lift weight according to your weight and strength frequently
and don't miss out on the best compound exercises like squats, deadlifts, bench press, shoulder press.

3. Manage your emotions

Your emotions are the first fuel of your body, the kind of thoughts that you have, if you are constantly under the umbrella of stress, negative thoughts, toxic environment your emotion would be negative and your body will not maximize the goodness. Your thoughts and emotions are the fuel that runs your body, decisions, and ultimately it decides and runs your life!

Hence make sure that you surround yourself with positive people, family, and friends and don't have negative self-talk or thoughts.

This is something many people don't know that if you think good about your body, your body repays you by doing the same.

4. Sleep like a baby

Now since any so-called influencer cannot sell you sleep, is the reason it is so underrated, literally a lot of problems that you might face with respect to your body can be solved if your sleep schedule is fixed, as your body goes through a lot of changes, your body repairs itself, from the cellular level to hormonal level, your body produces and balanced its hormones, detox your body, build your muscle or make you lose fat(Depending upon your diet and workout) and a lot of important things that body does in the deep state of rest.

Hence make sure your sleep time is fixed and you are having quality sleep.

5. Add Ashwagandha

Ashwagandha is a natural herb that is extracted from a plant and has been used extensively in ayurvedic medicine for centuries.

The main function that Ashwangandhta has to play is it helps to reduce your stress hormone "cortisol", now if you are someone who does not lead a very healthy lifestyle, the one who eats a lot of junk food, abuse alcohol, and smoking, is fat and stressed, that tend to lowers there natural testosterone levels.

Hence adding organic ashwagandha to your diet with some warm milk can help you in reducing your cortisol levels and promoting natural testosterone safely.

Conclusion:

Testosterone is the male primary sex hormone that has a lot of important functions to play in the human body.

Although one might not have a deficiency of this hormone in most cases these are some natural steps that any male can incorporate into their lifestyle to boost their T levels naturally without any side effects.

I hope this answer adds value to your life!

Thanks For Reading!!!

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Rohan Monga

Fitness Writer , Top Writer in Health and Nutrition on Quora. Just using this Medium for the same of spreading correct knowledge in fitness.