Table Of ContentThe Proven Testosterone Solution
A Guide To More Muscle,Less Fat and Upgraded Living
Alex McMahon, NTP
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: What Is Testosterone?
Chapter 2: How The Body Uses Testosterone
Chapter 3: Signs of Low Testosterone
Chapter 4: The Problem
Chapter 5: Other Players In The Game
Chapter 6: Liver Health and Hormones
Chapter 7: Why Getting Your Numbers Is Critical
Chapter 8: Testosterone Thieves
Chapter 9: Toxins Killing Your Testosterone
Chapter 10: Your Solution
Chapter 11: Macronutrients
Chapter 12: Cholesterol
Chapter 13: Intermittent Fasting
Chapter 14: Meditation And Testosterone
Chapter 15: Body Language and Testosterone
Chapter 16: Your 12 Week Testosterone Plan
Conclusion
Introduction
I want to thank and congratulate you for downloading this book, The Proven
Testosterone Solution: A Guide To More Muscle, Less Fat and Upgraded
Living.
This book helps you to understand and more importantly implement the
strategies to raise your testosterone levels naturally to your max potential.
Along with naturally boosting your testosterone to optimal levels you will be
able to build muscle, gain strength, lose body fat and improve your overall
health and well being.
This book also includes a 12 week plan that helps you put all the puzzle pieces
together. This 12 week plans includes meal plans, weight training and how to
improve sleep and reduce stress daily.
The natural state of testosterone these days among men has steadily been on the
decline. Everything from dietary recommendations to how people exercise and
live are all decreasing testosterone among men everywhere.
By downloading this book you have set yourself apart from most modern men.
You are not accepting the status quo of modern living and low testosterone.
Change begins with knowledge!
Thank you again for choosing this book and I hope that you enjoy it, and share
with your friends.
Chapter 1:
What Is Testosterone?
Testosterone is the main male sex hormone and it belongs to a group of other
male sex hormones known as androgens that include DHT (dihydrotestosterone)
and DHEA (dehydroepiandrosterone). It is mostly synthesized from cholesterol.
Men and women both produce testosterone and DHEA, but men make about ten
times more testosterone than women. Testosterone and other androgens are
known for their roles in male sexuality and reproductive benefits.
Testosterone is literally the hormone that makes us men. It stimulates the growth
of the penis and scrotum, is vital in the production of sperm, controls fat
distribution on the body, increases the growth of facial and body hair, is anabolic
to muscles, gives us greater bone density and overall gives men the shape and
attributes that we associate with masculinity.
How Is Testosterone Made?
The overwhelming majority of your testosterone is made in your testicles, more
specifically, the testicular leydig cells.
Upwards of 95% of testosterone is made in the testicles while the remaining 5%
is synthesized from the androgen precursor, DHEA, in our adrenal glands. That’s
why it’s important to take care of those adrenal glands!
Now that we know what testosterone is, let’s look at how it is made and used in
the body.
It’s important to understand how complicated the process of producing
testosterone is, because it raises awareness about how many things can go wrong
along the way.
Keep in mind that this is an extremely complicated process. I am giving you an
abbreviated version to help you understand the process better, not leave you
more confused.
1. The whole process of
testosterone production
starts in the brain, the
hypothalamus to be
precise. The
hypothalamus links the
nervous system to the
endocrine system and
when the hypothalamus
detects that we need more
testosterone, it secretes
the hormone
gonadotropin releasing
hormone (GnRH). GnRH
is the overlord hormone
that starts the whole
process of testosterone
production.
2. GnRH stimulates the
pituitary gland, a small
gland at the bottom of the
hypothalamus. When the
pituitary detects GnRH, it
releases two hormones 1.)
Follicle-Stimulating
Hormone (FSH) and 2.)
Luteinizing Hormone
(LH).
Both FSH and LH are a
class of hormones called
gonadotropins, which is
why the first hormone
that signalled their release
is named gonadotropin
releasing hormone
(GnRH).
3. Once the pituitary has
released LH and FSH,
they travel through the
blood stream from the
brain down to our
testicles. Once LH and
FSH reach the testicles,
they enter the leydig
cells.
4. When the hormones
are inside the testicular
leydig cells, they do two
very important jobs: FSH
starts the production of
sperm, while LH
stimulates the leydig cells
to start converting
cholesterol into
testosterone.
The process of converting
cholesterol into
testosterone is very
complicated. You heard
me folks, our
testosterone is made
from cholesterol! We’ll
cover more on that later
though.
5. The leydig cells are
able to get the majority of
the cholesterol they need
to produce testosterone
by absorbing the
cholesterol we have
floating around in our
bloodstream and from all
that butter and steak
we’ve eaten. If there is
not enough cholesterol in
the bloodstream, our
testicles can inherently
produce some it for the
leydig cells to convert to
testosterone.
6. Now that we have
freshly produced
testosterone, your leydig
cells release it into the
bloodstream to be used.
Chapter 2:
How The Body Uses Testosterone
1. As the newly produced testosterone enters the bloodstream, it is called free
testosterone because it is not bound to anything. The liver releases a protein
designed to carry testosterone, named sex hormone binding globulin (SHBG)
2. Roughly 98% of our newly made testosterone will be bound to SHBG, or
another carrier protein called albumin. While testosterone is bound to SHBG or
albumin, it can no longer enter cells or bind to the necessary androgen receptors
for use.
Fortunately though, testosterone has the ability to shake free of albumin so it can
be used!
This means that roughly 98% of the testosterone you have in your body is
inactive and can’t be used. The more of these protein carriers (SHBG and
albumin) you have in your bloodstream, the less bio-available or free
testosterone you have
3. The free testosterone that is not bound to these protein carriers circulates
around the body waiting to bind to a receptor.
Let’s say you are doing some deadlifts and sprints, your androgen muscle
receptors are activated and the free testosterone can bind to these receptors.
Once this free testosterone binds to a receptor, that’s when the effects begin and
changes start to happen.
4. When the free testosterone is bound to a receptor, the receptor goes through a
structural change that allows it to enter your DNA. Once the testosterone enters
the DNA, then the impacts of the testosterone begin to take place. The result, in
the case of the muscle tissue, would be increased protein synthesis and muscle
growth.
5. When our hypothalamus detects that we have enough testosterone in our
blood, it signals the pituitary to stop producing LH so the testicles will decrease
the production of testosterone.
