Recipe: Androgenic Testosterone Building Elixir for Male AND Female Hormone Rejuvenation #102

[EarthSoldier10]

I think I finally understand your approach. Perhaps it's not about sustaining life... it's about enhancing life. I'm intrigued. I hate to keep harassing you but, I would really like to know how you deal with the general public. If someone ridicules or questions you, what's your defence? How can we approach a person eating a suicide diet in order to help them. I understand respecting a persons decisions and lifestyle... but who are we to harbor all this positive knowledge and not share it?

[SecretsOfLongevity]

@EarthSoldier10 My defense in any given situation would be logical based on the facts at hand so it's hard for me to give an example. Rarely am I offended by people question me because I don't do the things I do out of a belief system or to "be right". Eating poorly is a choice, yes. Personally I think the best action would be to have a health tax put on junk foods and things like that which would then go to funding their hospital care later in life (at least with our health system in Canada).

[SecretsOfLongevity]

@EarthSoldier10 ...In terms of what we can do personally is to live by example. If they're a loved one and they are harming themselves we can intervene and give our best argument from the heart and show that we care. If it's someone we are in a relationship with we can give an ultimatum (ie. it's either the cigarettes or me). If it's a child living at home, IMO a good parent should know that they can decide what that child does and simply for example "stop buying the count chocula", lol...

[KFerguson61]

Currently, I'm supplementing with these pheromones from a company by the name of Androtics Direct.

While I have noticed that MANY more women are comfortable around me than before, I can't tell whether or not this is a placebo effect.

Can you comment on this?

Thank you!

[SecretsOfLongevity]

@KFerguson61 Yes body odor is important. Testosterone and other androgens help produce these and many vegans have low androgen levels due to a variety of reasons but most notably from a lack of cholesterol in their diet. I'm not familiar with taking pheromones and can't comment on that directly except that intuitively I fell that the ones our body makes naturally would be the ideal.

[KFerguson61]

physiological and behavioral responses in the opposite sex, such as level of attraction, trust, and determine how comfortable a woman/man will be to communicate with you...and a vegan diet can/will strip us of these hormones eventually (no kidding, my body odor was non-existent the next day!). Perhaps this is the reason why I always find myself sniffing on the girlfriend's (who is not vegan) pillow each night when she goes home ;]

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[KFerguson61]

Zak,

What do you think about the supplementation of pheromones for vegans?

I've been on a vegan diet for three months for the 'health benefits' and to rid myself of body odor. However lately, I've come across information pertaining to the importance of body odor. Body odor, along with many other pheromones are a vital part in becoming intimate with a partner or the opposite sex. These are the hormones and chemicals that our body releases naturally that trigger (continued)

[DeepestSleep]

A couple of questions, if you don't mind..

When it comes to Maca , would you suggest red or white Maca powder?

at 5:47, you mentioned an herb which I cannot make the name out of, it sounds something like "Ashua Ganda"?

I plan on buying Maca this upcoming month, and would like to look into the other herb that I'm not sure of the name, as well as Mucuna.

[SecretsOfLongevity]

@DeepestSleep I have seen nothing substantial that indicates a true difference nutritionally between the different colours of maca. Ashwagandha is the herb I mentioned. Mucuna is great, I have a video on it, check it out by searching the name on youtube (I give a source for it as well, at that same link if you can grab some ashwagandha).

[VANHICKGOLDI]

Um, I thought eggs where loaded with estrogens. I mean essentially, they are big balls of estrogen, coming out of a female animal womb. Why the egg? Anyhow, I love the show and havce been learning a lot. Thank you.

[SecretsOfLongevity]

@VANHICKGOLDI I'm not sure of their estrogen content, but Ori Hofmekler recommends them in his "Anti-Estrogen" diet. He also recommends raw, grass fed dairy products which some might think of as estrogenic just because it comes from the mamary gland, but it seems that that doesn't mean it's high in estrogen.

[ravendream33]

Another complete protein seed is the poppy seed. They go on most every salad I eat now for about three months, and I eat 4 to 8 tablespoons of them a day in my food.  The oils of poppy seeds have a lot of value too. They are easy to digest too.....the only seed I can really eat without indegestion.

[SecretsOfLongevity]

Cool! I love poppy seeds :)

[mcallist1]

@SecretsOfLongevity

I'm really keen on increasing my testosterone but what about acne etc.What would your view on this be?

Thanks

[SecretsOfLongevity]

@mcallist1 I'll answer this in an upcoming Q&A, subscribe so you can see when it comes out!

[ravendream33]

Yes, and they are usually blue pigmented so they likely have lots of antioxidants. They have a bitter taste from the alkaloids, so that's probably good too since we don't get a lot of bitter in a normal diet.

[Necrowitch]

hrmm, I think I might use a whole less amount of cashews.. pines are a tad expensive so I think i'll stick with macadamia, pine nuts, and mmmmmmmmm yummy coconuts P=

[ddelmarsmith]

Great vid Zak!! Thanks so much... Also thanks for the Canadian on-line superfoods link the other day.

I'll definitely need to check out about the toxin in cashews. I love cashews. Damn!!!

Also, do you have any research refs about phytoestrogens mimicing estrogens..I have recently heard some other viewpoints on this (ie. that plant based estrogens are not an issue) and would like to investigate the data myself.

Thanks

[Agriking]

So how do you know when you're back in balance?

[SecretsOfLongevity]

You either have to work with a bio-identical hormone Dr. or a medical Dr./endocrinologist who can order the blood tests to look at the levels of hormones in a test that they could order for you.

Really it's not a concern to go "over" unless you using a lot of things that have testosterone in them, such as the pine nuts. With food our bodies often either just stop absorbing the things it doesn't need, or you'll get sick of the food as a sign to stop eating it.

[SecretsOfLongevity]

With foods that provide the building blocks of testosterone (maca for example) your body will simply use those properties to build other things if it has enough of something, such as testosterone. Dr. William Wong, an accomplished anti-aging researcher and lecturer recommends some people take as much as 4-6 tbsp of maca a day... sounds ridiculous, but these are foods so it's not something you can overdose on.

(I wouldn't recommend that amount for an extended period of time btw :p)

[SecretsOfLongevity]

Mucuna... mucuna pruriens... similar sound :) I'll be sure to say it more clearly next time I use it in a video, thanks!