How to Increase Your Testosterone Through Mental Attitude, Competition, Winning and Sexual Anticipation

What if I told you that I knew of a supplement that could boost your testosterone 20-30% or more? I hope that you’d put me in a hammerlock until I gave you the name of this little miracle worker! Well, actually, you don’t need to put any sort of WWF hold on me, because it’s actually not a supplement that can increase your testosterone so easily – it’s your mind. (Most guys can also increase your testosterone through a High Testosterone Diet as well.)

Your attitudes about life, about yourself and about sex have a profound impact on your testosterone (and libido for that matter). Psychology is incredibly important for all guys

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Now if you didn’t respond something like the above, then you need to seriously consider what your attitudes are doing to your T-levels.  I would go so far as to say that if you want to neuter yourself, just wake up each morning with a “I’m a worm” attitude. Other psychological issues that will whack your testosterone: Depression and Stress. If you feel your marriage, your mortgage, your job are destroying your life, then your attitudes are probably destroying your testosterone as well. Don’t wait – get help. Your health and everything that makes you a male is at risk. Studies have shown this repeatedly.  One 1999 study showed that depression not only whacked nighttime and 24-hour testosterone levels but, just as bad, raised cortisol by 68%!  [1] (Cortisol and depression will destroy your brain.  For more information, read about these effects on the Brain.)

Furthermore, researchers have found what us males have discovered instinctively: winning and winning attitudes stimulate testosterone (and dopamine) levels. Losing and losing attitudes depress them. And you know that: you can feel the surge when you’ve won a victory of some sort. It’s a rush that effects everything if you are male. Like it or not, that’s part of what life for us is all about. Long term losing in any area of our life is just not good for us. Sure, a few losses are good for the soul and build humility and all that. But don’t stay there. Feeling like a loser is hormonal death.

Numerous studies have shown just what I’m talking about:

• T levels rise shortly before competition (even in chess matches). [2]
• T-levels of winners are higher than losers.
• Mood elevation must be present for winners to increase testosterone.
• For the winner to experience augmented T-levels, the win must matter to the winner and the winner must feel that he has played a role in the victory.

There's another key mental condition that can effect your testosterone:  sexual anticipation.  In another link I cover how Sex itself can increase testosterone. But it turns out that just the anticipation of sex does the same thing.  Let’s look at just one example of the effects of psychology on testosterone: research has shown that there is a large difference in testosterone levels between married and unmarried males. Who do you think has the higher average testosterone? If you guessed unmarried, you’d be right. Married males have significantly lower testosterone levels on average.

Of course, for those of us who believe in the merits of monogamy, this is disturbing to say the least. But the reason for this is obvious. Every guy knows the jokes about what happens to you once you get married. And the bottom line is that the majority of married guys have given up on romance, excitement and pursuit of their wives for various reasons.

That kind of attitude is the kiss of death for your testosterone. Listen, O mighty T–warrior, you need romantic and sexual excitement in your life! Don’t get arrested or anything, but without it you're swimming upstream with your testosterone levels.

Does anticipation of sex really make a significant difference? And what kind of numbers are we talking about?  One study of Air Force vets found unmarried males with up to 20% higher average testosterone readings than married males! If your T is sitting at a marginal 360, that’s around 70 T-points. Ouch! And think of it going the other direction: getting your attitudes healthy and active regarding sex and romance can boost your T by 70+ points as well.

So, again, build as many of these as you can into your life:  winning, a winning attitude, competition, sexual anticipation and avoid overly high levels of stress and anything that even borders on depression.  Your testosterone depends on it!

REFERENCES:

1) Psychosomatic Med,1999,61:292-296

2) Behavioural and Brain Sciences, 1998, (21):353-363