hi there I'm dr. Dominic from that fifth checked I'm here today to talk to you about testosterone testosterone is fast becoming one of our most popular at tests and then it's one of the reason for this is because there's increased awareness of low testosterone and how important testosterone is a hormone for guys during video I'm going to talk to you about natural ways in which we as men can increase our testosterone levels so five very base our basic are very simple abroad in which in our how to increase the testosterone levels would include get enough
sleep is number one number two is maintain a healthy weight number three is eat enough fat in your diet to actually produce testosterone number four is to exercise are continuously exercise not to excessively but regularly and number five is to keep control of your stress levels going back to those and simple our broader headings and the number one hint that I gave you is to get enough sleep so for many guys sleep is a really crucial factor in maintaining their testosterone levels and I'd say for many of our my listeners you're quite surprised by that
but many many hormones in the brain are produced during the night time so when when the brain thinks that it's nighttime it actually produces a special hormone testosterone is one of these hormones so we would advise you to aim for at least seven hours of quality sleep a night I know this sounds like a lot but it's really important in terms of maintaining your testosterone levels so crucially and I know you've probably heard this before but it's so important to turn off your tablet your phone and your computer at least an hour before you go
to bed if you have your phone on besides your bedtime your brain still thinks it's it's daylight and may not produce adequate levels of testosterone the second point that I referred to was to maintain a healthy weight this is a self-explanatory as it sounds so basically guys who are overweight they inhibit the own their own production of testosterone because they have too many fat cells in their body unfortunately the same is true for guys who are underweight they're not taking enough fat fat into their body to produce testosterone so maintaining weight is the second piece
of advice I have for you a third of these advice I gave you in terms of increasing your testosterone naturally is to increase the amount of softener in your in your diet I know for so many years you've been hearing fat is bad that is bad but actually we now know that anything in moderation including fat is actually really good for you and you need fat in your body to produce testosterone so examples of good fat would be monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats sources of these fats would include olive oil rapeseed oil avocados any nuts peanuts
for example peanut butter and also some saturated fats are really good for you everything but in moderation for example we all need some red meat in our diet and and also things like dark chocolate again has saturated fats real butter has saturated fat and these are necessary in certain quantities so don't don't be shy or nervous of increasing the fat in your diet this fourth piece of ice referred to as having an active or taking axis regular exercise so testosterone is really important as a hormone and it controls your muscles and it also controls your
bones and is involved in your metabolism so if you're not doing much an activity in your very you know you're spending lot of time the Chi charger desk your brain is telling your body that you don't need a lot of testosterone so in turn it doesn't produce much testosterone but if you take some exercise your brain is telling your body that you're taking exercise and your body will produce testosterone as a result of that it's really important to remember though that excessive exercise also shuts down the production of testosterone so you're not doing yourself any
favors by taking excessive exercise so thirty minutes exercise three or four times a week would be what we would recommend some that's get checked as a fifth piece of advice and it sounds like a kind of lovey-dovey a very general bit of advice but it's to take control of your stress but what many of you don't realize is that when your stress their appetizer or feeling anxious or sad your body produces lots of stress hormones are negative hormones one of these hormones is called cortisol if you have lots of cortisol your testosterone level drops so
it's actually really important that you take time eyes that should do stuff that you enjoy doing and be it exercise a bit go to the movies or anything that you enjoy doing will actually decrease the level of stress hormone in your body which is cortisol and will naturally increase the amount of testosterone and your body produces so if you've interested in checking faster level please log on to let's get checked and our nurses are there to give you advice either over the phone or through our live chat and they will advise you about the best
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