10 Ways to Raise Male Libido/Testosterone + 4 Things to AVOID

Last week I talked to someone who’d just tried testosterone replacement therapy (TRT). He’s actively dating and bedding new girls, but he wanted an extra edge to boost his sex drive up even higher.

The result of his TRT experiment was not good: while on the therapy he found himself beset with anxiety until he finally quit and went back to normal.

If you’re living in the West right now, you’ve likely been trained to believe something like “the solution to any problem is to pump more laboratory chemicals into your body!” Pills, supplements, hormones, fortified foods, inoculations, patches, vapes, you name it. The only thing I’m not seeing pushed much these days is suppositories (maybe they’ll make a comeback though). Just find the right elixir and eat/drink/inject it in, and voila! Miracle cure!

A few hundred years ago, alchemy was all the rage in Europe, with people busily concocting mixtures and potions hoping to solve all kinds of biological problems, often resulting in injury or even death of the imbiber of said concoctions. We laugh at that now, then we turn right around and load ourselves up with pharmaceuticals that every year more and more get revealed to have some sort of disastrous (or even mortal) effect upon the body… and often the promised result is marginal, fleeting, illusory, or none.

This article ignores all the witches’ brews, alchemical formulae, miracle jungle plants, multicolored sea slug compounds, and Big Pharma-produced Wonder Drugs™ to give you tips to raise your libido by as much as you want using nothing more than your lifestyle.

Because, as we’re about to discuss, the problem men are having with testosterone and libido is NOT a “chemical imbalance” problem that needs fixin’ with yet more chemicals and hormones… it is a LIFESTYLE problem.

 

I’m going to use libido and testosterone almost interchangeably in this article, because they are. A man with high testosterone has a high libido. A man with a high libido has high testosterone. To quote one study:

High levels of testosterone are strongly associated with high frequencies of sexual behaviour.

There are other factors influencing libido in men, but testosterone is the biggie. So we’re gonna focus on that.

The collapse in male testosterone we’ve seen in modern men is shocking. Testosterone fell 17% from 1987 to 2004; it then fell an additional 21% from 2004 levels to 2016. That’s a total 34% plummet in testosterone levels between 1987 and 2016, with the rate of testosterone decline doubling between 1987 to 2004 and 2004 to 2016… and that’s not even including data for the testosterone levels of men in the 1960s, 1940s, 1920s, or earlier. Think a cowboy wrassling kine and walking into the saloon with his six shooter had testosterone anywhere near as low as men’s today? Or even men in the father-knows-best 1950s (who nevertheless had much higher T-levels than today’s men too)? Not likely.

The scientists who look at this collapse in testosterone can’t explain it. They try to attribute it to diet, obesity, environmental toxins, drugs, and so on. This stuff certainly has an impact. But it isn’t the greatest one.

The reason for the collapse in male testosterone and libido is ENVIRONMENTAL.

READ MORE: Why Are 21st Century Men So Apathetic and Unmotivated?

Read that article if you want to understand it better.

When men feel like they have no freedom or power in their lives, their bodies reduce testosterone production so they can accept a lower ranking, more submissive role in society without making themselves a target for those who actually hold power. Low-ranking, low testosterone males have significantly reduced libidos – at the extreme, low-ranking men will be entirely unmotivated with little interest in sex. A testosterone increase, on the other hand, causes males to begin seeking opportunities to advance themselves socially and find more mates.

Here’s a list of some factors believed to boost testosterone:

• No chronic stress

• Dominant status in a group

• Stable relations within society

• The ability to manage stress

• The ability to respond adequately to frustration

• Winning a contest where it was unclear you would win

• Noradrenergic response to stress (used by dominants but not by subordinates)

In case you don’t know what a noradrenergic response to stress is, it is this: a response to acute stress where the individual under stress prepares to dive into action.

Dominant individuals experience noradrenergic responses to acute stress, where they ready themselves for action. Subordinate individuals respond the opposite way, with a trophotropic type reaction to acute stress, in which their wakefulness lowers, their metabolism slows down, and their muscle tone decreases. Basically, in stressful situations, dominant individuals switch into gear, while subordinate individuals switch off. This switching into gear that dominants use when the heat is on raises their testosterone – and libido as well.

As you can see, none of these have to do with “avoiding too much plastic in the diet” or “getting enough magic jungle leaves” or injecting yourself with animal testosterone or mad scientist laboratory-made testosterone-like concoctions. Instead, they are social, mental, and environmental factors, because the body raises or lowers testosterone production in response to these.

I cannot stress that enough: the solution to a low libido is getting the body to produce more testosterone naturally. If you can do this, you will have all the libido you could ever want.

 

All right, let’s look at our ten (10) ways to raise those T-levels up and get yourself as horny as you want (no Viagra, Cialis, or Horny Goat Weed required!).

I will tell you my personal experience: as a 40-year-old man, I have gone through stretches where my libido had noticeably dipped. Every time that’s occurred, I’ve been able to diagnose why it happened and use the steps below to raise it back up. When I’ve focused on it, I can get myself to the point of being hypersexualized – where I am basically just horny all the time, constantly rocking hard-ons, and can think of nothing but sex. When that happens, I realize I took it too far, and scale that back down or transmute it… a high libido is fun but I don’t want to be a slave to it either.

I am not some naturally high testosterone guy. Going by my 2D:4D ratio (a measurement of the forefinger and ring finger that tells you a man’s prenatal testosterone exposure – guys with really short forefingers compared to their ring fingers tend are walking testosterone factories), I’m smack dab in the middle of ordinary man testosterone levels.

So yeah, in my experience – if you are average, you can become a testosterone superman with the right mental and environmental configurations. You don’t need shots or pills or other weird stuff for this.

If you are below average, I can’t say for sure (if you are – like if you have a much longer forefinger than ring finger – and you try this advice out, I’d be interested to hear your results or updates in the comments), but based on how we know testosterone/libido works, it should also work for you.

So long as you have a functioning pair of testes, you’ve got the raw material to make this work.

The rest is all setting yourself up for that sky-high libido.

Let’s go!

 

#1: Slim Down and Get Fit

When you’re fat, the body suppresses testosterone production. Fat guys just don’t get as horny. Sad facts of life. Further, the relationship between testosterone and body fat is bidirectional: as you get fatter, your T-levels drop, which makes it easier for you to get fatter, which drops your T-levels still further.

The opposite effect, however, is also true: as you slim down, your testosterone rises, which causes you to slim down more, which causes your T-levels to rise more. As you might expect, fat men who lose weight see their sex drives come back.

Note that while running a caloric deficit you will also experience a dip in testosterone. If you are fat, you are going to need to run a caloric deficit to get your T-levels back up, but just keep in mind that while running that deficit that is also going to affect T-levels, too. Ideally the testosterone gain you get from the weight loss will outpace the testosterone hit you take from running a caloric deficit to achieve that weight loss. Then of course once you reach your ideal weight, you get to just be much higher testosterone all the time – no fat and no caloric deficit; maximum T.

If you’re out of shape, even if you aren’t fat, it can affect testosterone production, and libido. If you’re an older guy who is out of shape, this can even affect your ability to get and maintain erections.

So the first order of business if you are overweight is slimming down. I have an excellent guide to this – which anyone can use, without requiring pills or supplements, and actually save money doing it – right here. We have another excellent guide to weight loss here (worth looking into if you have LOTS of weight to lose).

You should also work on your physical fitness. Here’s a guide to lifting weights. And here is my personal guide to body weight exercises, which you can do at home with next to no equipment.

I will also add that, just in general, if you start your day with high intensity exercise you will tend to be energized right from the get-go. You can make morning exercises a win (we’ll talk about that in our #5 way to raise testosterone/libido), and it gets you the testosterone spike that comes from high intensity exercise (high intensity training for one hour results in a 36% increase in testosterone; but even short high intensity exercise has an effect). You can roll right out of bed and start doing pushups like Christian Bale’s Bruce Wayne in Batman Begins. That way, it’s the first thing you do in the day after waking up (aside from perhaps meditating and planning out your day before you drop to the floor and do some pushups).

 

#2: Get Plenty of Sleep

As you sleep, your testosterone rises. Then, during wakefulness – at least for average men in today’s society – your testosterone continuously falls throughout the day.

I wonder how much of the fall of testosterone throughout the day is universal across cultures, merely due to fatigue, versus how much is a product of 21st Century Western society, which is very much a testosterone-siphoning experience. We’d need cross-cultural studies examining societies with far greater personal/social/cultural liberty than our present society affords us to know.

Anyway, the point is – if you don’t get enough sleep, your testosterone does not have time to completely rebound from the draining it took the day before, which means you’re starting out at lower T-levels and libido levels the next day.

Are you getting enough sleep?

The average American isn’t. The average American sleeps 6.8 hours per night. 40% of Americans sleep below 6 hours a night.

I sleep 8 to 10 hours a night most nights. Sometimes it dips as low as 6 and sometimes it can hit 12. I used to think I was hardcore because I could push myself to get by on 4 hours of sleep a night for a few weeks at a time (before crashing), but then when I’d finally get a full night’s sleep I’d wake up the next day and say, “Wow, is this what it feels like to be ALERT and RESTED? I forgot this feeling! I thought I was doing fine on four hours a night, but I was a zombie and didn’t even realize it…”

Anyway, if you’re not getting 8+ hours a night, and your sex drive is not where you want it to be, that alone might be much of the difference between you and me.

“What do I do if I just don’t have time to get enough sleep, Chase?” I hear you ask.

See my article on time management. If that still doesn’t help (because, for instance, you’re in a medical residency program and need to work 36-hour shifts), then you might need to realize you’ve put yourself in a position where good sleep isn’t going to be something you get to have, and you’re going to need to sacrifice one thing or the other for your goals – whatever is more important to you.

 

#3: Cut Out Media Drama

We’ve talked about this before, but the mainstream media – and even alternative media – is just mind control gobbledygook.

READ MORE: Mind Control: How Media Influence Your Thoughts and Feelings

I’m not even saying it’s all lies (though a lot of it is; the rest of it is spin). The big problem is this: when you are focused on all these huge, outrage-generating phenomena that exist totally outside your ability to influence, you are making yourself feel small, powerless, and helpless. You are also not focused on “things near at hand.” Instead of focusing on your own stuff, you are focused on a bunch of stuff that – while important at a world or society-wide stage – is effectively unimportant for you because it is not directly affectable by you and there’s nothing about it you can REALLY do.

This stuff is straight garbage; it’s a distraction; and it is robbing you of your testosterone, your libido, your life energy, and replacing it with a bunch of drama, gossip, and second-guessing of yourself (for instance, consuming a bunch of radical feminist content about how you need to be ashamed of being a man  – even if you are consuming masculine-aligned stuff, but that stuff is repeating what feminists say to complain about it, you are still absorbing some shrew’s diatribe when the masculinist guys share what the latest loopy feminist chick said then tack on a “Can you believe this psycho? She’s crazy!” – well you’re still being exposed to it through that guy anyway!).

There’s only one thing you can do if you want your sex drive back (well, actually, there are all the things in this article… but we’re talking about media castration here):

Turn off the glowing screens.

 

#4: Be Your Own Boss

Probably the lowest testosterone time of my life was when I was working a 9-to-5 cubicle job filling out spreadsheets or, alternately, having absolutely nothing to do for months at a time (the life of a government contractor). I had zero responsibility, no one to manage, nothing to do but hope I pleased my superiors or, alternately, that they didn’t catch me falling asleep at my desk when there wasn’t any work for me to work on.

I had way more testosterone when I was working in an auto shop in college as an assistant store manager with a bunch of auto techs under my management. Sure, the guys were surly, but that just made me have to be all the manlier to keep them respecting my authority. Once I graduated college and entered the boring world of spreadsheets and cubicles I sunk into a years-long stupor.

You cannot be a full man feeling like a subordinate. I don’t mean that you need to quit your career or have to be a solo entrepreneur or a boss. But if you have a job – if you have a boss – you at least need something with enough autonomy that you don’t feel like you exist just to serve/please the Powers That Be.

Men with higher testosterone levels are more likely to be or become self-employed. Testosterone can also be used to predict how high in the corporate hierarchy an executive will rank – higher testosterone = higher rank.

Men who find ways to achieve ownership at work and take more control of their trajectory – whether through building a team, carving out a niche for themselves within the company, or starting a company of their own – tend to experience elevated levels of testosterone (and thus, libido)… especially compared to their loaf-around peers stuck being underlings with no direct reports and few or no responsibilities.

Start your own company, or figure out a way to have enough freedom, power, and control within the company for which you work – and your testosterone will rise.

 

#5: Cultivate the Winner Effect

Any longtime Girls Chase reader is familiar with the winner effect.

If you’re not, drop everything and read this article now, because it will change everything for you:

READ MORE: How to Be a Dominant Man: What You Didn't Know About the 'Winner Effect'

The long and short of it: every time you win – even a tiny, seemingly insignificant win – your testosterone goes up. As it goes up, you become more likely to win the next time, further elevating your testosterone.

The reverse is also true: as you lose, your testosterone levels fall, making you even more likely to lose the next time. The only time the winner effect does not kick in is in friendly competition with friends (you get neither a boost for beating a friend in a friendly competition, nor a penalty for losing to one).

You need to build your life around the winner effect. That’s why you have a goal of “start my day with calisthenics” and then first thing in the morning you drop out of bed and do those pushups. Or whatever your morning workout routine is. First thing in the day. Right off the bat, BOOM! Victory. Testosterone spike. In addition to the testosterone spike that comes from the exercise itself alone – the ‘goal completed’ spike is a second spike.

Then you go write your daily to-do list, starting with some important but achievable tasks for that morning that are going to make you feel like a champ when you complete them. Do them, and boom – more winning. More testosterone.

You can engineer wins this way – and note that they should be meaningful wins for that full testosterone boost – and create a cascading effect of continuously upward-flowing testosterone throughout at the very least the first half of your day.

You can do the same thing when you go out to socialize: set small, achievable, yet meaningful goals, then go hit them. For instance: “I’ll start with three warm-up approaches.” Go make your three warm-up approaches, and you will feel very good about having done it. You did it! Testosterone spike. Now not only are you warmed up, but your T-levels and libido are higher too.

The better you get at cultivating the winner effect throughout your day, the less you will ever need to worry about a shortage of testosterone, confidence, or sex drive.

 

#6: Eat Plenty of Protein

Males who fail to get enough protein in their diets experience a problem with a globulin that binds to sex hormones, suppressing their testosterone levels.

Personally, my diet is about 50% meat and peanuts… protein is just never a worry for me.

If you have any kind of diet where you are not getting enough meat and/or other sources of protein, this is one lifestyle reason why your T-levels will be low, and your libido low too.

Solution: go eat some more animals. Or grab a fistful of peanuts and chow down.

 

#7: Be Around Attractive Women

It sounds almost stupidly simple, but: if you want a higher sex drive, place yourself around good-looking women. Study:

Adult males usually elevate testosterone when interacting with adult women who are potential mates.

Duh, right? Yet how many times have you looked around yourself only to realize it’s only men or old/fat/ugly women around you? Have you ever looked around and said, “Geez, I really don’t run with the hot girl crowd at all, do I?”

There is also the “challenge hypothesis”:

Males increase testosterone production primarily when competing for fecund females. In species where males compete to maintain long-term access to females, testosterone increases when males are threatened with losing access to females, rather than during mating periods. And when male status is linked to mating success, and dependent on aggression, high-ranking males normally maintain higher testosterone levels than subordinates, particularly when dominance hierarchies are unstable.

So if you really want to raise those T-levels up to the hilt, throw yourself into situations where you must compete directly for women with other men. Nightlife game thus is perhaps our #1 game style for maximizing your testosterone and libido.

You don’t have to go that far though (if, for instance, you don’t like bars). Just being around beautiful women can serve as sufficient stimulus to get those t-levels rising.

This one may seem easy to forget when you’re knuckled down on the grind and not actively approaching a lot of women, but it has a big effect:

• The less you’re around beautiful women, the lower your testosterone will be.
• The MORE you’re around beautiful women, the HIGHER your testosterone will be.
• If you really want to max those T-levels out, be in situations where you are competing for beautiful women.

 

#8: Stay Polygynously Minded

Here’s one that’s certain to offend the peanut gallery!

Both married men and men who are unmarried but in committed, monogamous relationships have 21% lower testosterone levels than their unmarried, uncommitted peers. Does that mean you cannot have a committed relationship if you want to keep those T-levels up?

Well, not quite.

Because there is also this study:

The authors proceeded on the basis of the idea that men who retain interests in sexual opportunities with women other than a primary partner continue to dedicate more time and energy to mating effort when romantically paired, and so they predicted that the association between relationship status and T depends on men's extrapair sexual interests. Both studies found support for it.

I’ll translate that for you:

The hypothesis was that among committed men who still think about and look for chances to sleep with other women, testosterone levels do not fall. The study supported the hypothesis: committed men still looking for other women keep their T-levels up.

So there is the takeaway: if you want to avoid the testosterone slump that occurs in a committed, monogamous relationship, the way to do that is to commit… but continue to keep an eye out (a dick out?) for other girls.

 

#9: Denied Ejaculation

One libido-skyrocketing trick first reported by the old school seducer ijjjji, then later replicated by myself and an up-and-coming member of our forum named Swati, is enjoying sexual pleasure almost to the point of ejaculation, but NOT ejaculating, for weeks. Ijjjji described it this way (and I’m paraphrasing from memory since I can’t find the forum post anymore):

Having sex raises your testosterone levels. But ejaculation drops them. The drop is not as much as the boost, so sex still raises your T-levels SLIGHTLY. But what if you had a lot of sex, getting the big testosterone boost, but never ejaculated, so your T-levels did not come down?

ijjjji experimented with this for a month, masturbating almost to ejaculation, then quitting… having sex with his friends with benefits, but stopping short of finishing. He reported that past two weeks, his sex drive was higher than he could ever remember it having been. The girls he was seeing became crazy trying to get him to cum, but he kept refusing. After three weeks, women at the bars he went to became animalistically attracted to him in a way he’d never experienced before, coming onto him directly and acting very sexual.

When he told women he’d just met about his challenge to not ejaculate for a month, and that he was past the three week mark, he said many women got this look in their eyes and swore that they could change that, then started trying to get him to go home with them. Eventually some girl he met in a bar did manage to get him to ejaculate sometime before he reached the 4-week mark… he simply wasn’t able to control it with her. He said the sex was feral.

I haven’t gone as long as ijjjji… the longest I’ve made it testing this method is a few weeks and, indeed, girls you are seeing get pretty desperate to get you to cum, and you become increasingly alert, aware, aggressive, and animalistic as the time goes on – a product of elevating testosterone (from all that sex / jacking off yet no ejaculation).

Swati reports that he pulled higher caliber (“breakthrough”) girls when he was using semen retention (i.e., not allowing oneself to ejaculate) around the 2-3 mark of retention – in his case, at that point girls started approaching him to comment on his looks.

Obviously, this takes some self-control to do… also typically you need to have a girl or two you’re regularly sleeping with (you can do it with masturbation, but the real testosterone spike comes FROM sex). Yet if you can pull it off, you’re looking at a much higher libido, and a kind of animal attraction from women to boot.

 

#10: Keep Sex Top of Mind

Related to those last three (being around beautiful girls + remaining mentally open to further sexual opportunities even if committed + having sex but not allowing yourself to finish) is this: you need to be thinking about sex.

You need to be looking at women’s waists and butts. You need to be looking at women’s breasts. You need to be picturing the conquest with women.

If it’s been too long since you’ve had a new woman (maybe you’re monogamous right now, or you’re in a dry spell), and you’re finding it hard to visualize that, using the occasional naked pic is okay. Find a picture of a hot girl spreading her legs and imagine yourself going to town on her. It’s okay to rub one out with that image in your head.

DON’T use video porn. Don’t use porn with other dudes in it. Or even lesbian porn. Just find a nice pic of a hot girl in a receptive position and use that as your wank image to imagine giving it to her right in the pussy. The reason why is because you want to get your mind visualizing actually having sex – not responding voyeuristically to other people having sex like it would be if you were to watch porn videos or look at other folks engaged in a sex act.

You don’t want a porn addiction. That does really weird things to the libido, where you may be horny a lot, but only for granny/tranny/bestiality porn and not for in-the-flesh regular ol’ women. No thank you.

The basic trick is, if you are thinking about sex, imagining sexing up all the cuties whose paths you cross, dwelling in sexual thoughts all the time, reading guys’ lay reports on the forum, just immersing yourself in sex, sex, sex, you WILL get a ton hornier… it can even get to the point where it becomes an obsession. A sexual addiction, even.

At that point you’ve probably gone too far.

But it is cool to know that you CAN go so far, simply by putting your mind there, isn’t it?

All you have to do if you want some libido (just not “addiction-level libido”) is to put your mind on sex a lot more… just not to the point where it becomes a monomania.

 

Individual Factors (i.e., Anomalies)

Something else to consider is that we all work a little bit differently. Each of us has slight differences in mental and physiological configurations that lead to different stimuli affecting us in different ways.

For instance, something I have long attributed to my robust libido is chocolate. I eat chocolate pretty much every day. Sometimes, however, I will go through these stretches where my libido dips and I can’t tell why… and then I examine my diet and realize that I just went three or so days without any chocolate. I eat some chocolate and then right away my libido comes back.

Well, the research on chocolate and libido is exactly backwards of this. It finds that:

• Sexually unsatisfied women turn to eating chocolate, which in turn makes them feel satisfied, reducing their libidos. Women are quoted as saying “chocolate is like sex” – it is basically used as a substitute for sex.

• In men, there is no link – chocolate is neither related to a raising or a lowering of libido – except among young men, where it serves this same kind of “sex substitute” role it does for young women (for older men, for some reason, it stops serving that role and moves to “no effect”).

Why does there seem to be a link between chocolate and libido in me? Is it psychosomatic? Is it some actual physiological difference in me? I don’t know.

(there is however one study showing men who ate a ton of chocolate mixed with pomegranate over a two-month period experienced a significant increase in serum testosterone levels – they even increased in grip strength and muscle mass! So who knows, maybe it’s not just me… but is it the chocolate doing that or the pomegranate? Unclear!)

You may find there are individual things that for you raise your libido, even if they don’t have that effect in most other men. Things can vary. For instance, for some guys, drama is a huge boner killer. But other guys get a massive hard-on for a dramatic woman – they can’t wait to reconquer her and make her submit again. Does drama raise your libido or lower it? And where’s the line – obviously there’s going to be a point where it gets too extreme and you’re just annoyed instead of horny.

If you can find anomalies like this in yourself, don’t ignore them just because other people say “it doesn’t work that way.” If it works that way for YOU, take advantage of it, and leverage that to keep your libido up and your T-levels high.

 

There are also a few things you absolutely, positively must avoid to not screw up your libido.

They are:

• TREN (a type of anabolic steroid)
• Long-distance relationships
• Co-sleeping with children if you have kids
• Submission

Let’s have a look.

 

TREN and Libido

I really want to put “all steroids” here in general. I know the whole culture right now is “Guys gotta have these big steroid muscles – else how can you compete!” but I’ve pretty solidly debunked that already on Girls Chase.

READ MORE: Why Do So Many People Think Muscles Get You Girls?

Steroids just in general turn men into weird emotional messes. When you take steroids, they lead the body to compensate for an excess of testosterone by producing more estrogen, which screws all kinds of things up with the way your libido works.

However, the worst of these by far is TREN. We had a whole discussion of it over on the forum. If you’ve noticed the general trend of guys on steroids having sex with trannies, the reason for that is TREN: all those big muscle guys you see with trannies are on TREN.

Technically, you can just inject yourself with a bunch of steroids and your sex drive will skyrocket as your T-levels do. The problem of course is that this chemically induced libido tends to come with a lot of weird sexual urges you would not normally experience off steroids… and then of course when you finally do go off them, you are dealing with the whole “shrunken testes” phenomenon, and a body that is not producing nearly as much testosterone as it was before the steroids, so you have a total libido collapse (which most guys recover from… but not all. Some become dependent on anabolic steroids for life after that – or else they just have no libido).

 

Long-Distance Relationships

No man should ever agree to a long-distance relationship, unless he also plans to see women locally while in that long-distance relationship (LDR). Why so?

Because long-distance relationships are the single worst kind of relationship to have for men’s testosterone.

Just take a look at this study:

Single men had higher T than long-distance and same-city partnered men, which supports the relationship orientation interpretation. In contrast, same-city partnered women had lower T than single women and women in long-distance relationships, which supports the relationship status interpretation. We conclude that physical partner presence is not necessary to see an association between partnering and hormones in men (since same-city and long-distance partnered men had similar T levels), but may be necessary in women (since same-city partnered women had lower T than long-distance partnered women).

It doesn’t really hit home until you look at the charts:

Do you see that?

• Women with a partner in the same city have 35% less testosterone than when they’re single (i.e., they are much more monogamously-inclined / loyal / devoted / etc.). But women in a long-distance relationship only have 13% less testosterone than a single woman – they’re on “monogamy lite.”

• On the other hand, men with a partner in the same city have 20% less testosterone than single men… yet men in LDRs have even less testosterone than same-city partnered men, coming in at about 25% less testosterone than when they’re single.

In other words:

• Same city: women -35% testosterone; men -20% testosterone

• Different city: women -13% testosterone; men -25% testosterone

See the difference there?

Men in LDRs have absolute barrel-bottom T-levels; meanwhile women in LDRs have much higher T-levels than they do if they’re in the same city with the guy.

These are just terrible, terrible relationships if you’re a man – unless, of course, you are also sleeping with other women who do happen to be within your city.

Otherwise, avoid at all costs to preserve your testosterone (and not end up in an imbalanced relationship where the girl is acting “almost single” while you are more committed than a guy living in the same city with her would be!).

 

Avoid Co-Sleeping with Kids

At some point if you shag enough women you are probably going to have kids. I’m not going to get into the whole birds and the bees discussion here but that is the typical outcome of peepees going in vaginas and the white stuff in the peepee coming out into the vagina.

Kids are great; just don’t sleep next to them:

Among men who were not fathers at baseline (2005), fathers who were cosleepers at follow-up (2009) experienced a significantly greater longitudinal decline in PM T over the 4.5-year study period (p<0.01) compared to solitary sleeping fathers. Among these same men, baseline T did not predict fathers' sleeping arrangements at follow-up (p>0.2).

It makes sense, of course. If you’ve got a kid sleeping in the bed next to you, well, you don’t want to wake up with your morning wood poking Junior in the eye. So, nature steps in and turns the testosterone spigot off.

If you have kids, and they come running in and want to sleep in the bed with you, here’s all you do: just tell your woman they need to sleep next to her on the other side, and that you don’t want them sleeping next to you because you get massive erections at night and that’s not a good thing for a young kid to have jammed up against him or her during dreamtime. She’ll get on board; no mother wants that prospect for her kids.

With her between you and Junior, you can happily jam your nocturnal erections up against your woman’s nice butt while you’re sleeping; the kids get to hug mama from the other side; and those precious T-levels of yours remain fully intact.

 

Avoid Submission

Sooner or later, most guys betaize themselves.

They submit.

They do it to their women.

They do it to their jobs.

They do it to society.

They just mentally cut their own balls off and accept a subordinate position.

When that happens, they relinquish the winner effect, and accept the role of the follower.

At that point, testosterone begins a descent it may never recover from.

There’s only one thing to do if you feel yourself waffling over whether to submit or not:

Do not do it.

Do not SUBMIT.

That doesn’t mean you must be an asshole.

Well, sometimes you might.

Try not to be so unyielding as to be a rigid curmudgeon nobody is able to get along with.

What it does mean is that you need to know what you’re about, what you need, what you want, and what you can and cannot comfortably accept – and you need to make sure you are getting that, and getting your needs met, even as you work together with others to help them achieve their ends and goals as well.

If you can avoid submission even as you cooperate with others toward all the good things in life that cooperation can bring (happy relationships, successful careers, thriving friendships), you experience T-levels that don’t dip, and a libido that remains strong even as you go through life’s ups and downs.

 

There you have it – 10 ways to naturally improve testosterone, no magic potions or voodoo rituals required. Plus 4 ways to avoid getting your libido slashed to ribbons.

If you read this article then go inject some steroids or buy some bottle of whatever the latest pill craze to raise your T-levels are, don’t come ask me about the weird side effects you’re experiencing, like why you’re suddenly obsessed with trannies. Pharmacists are the modern day alchemists – mixing proteins and chemicals together in a laboratory hoping to have an effect, prescribing them when they see one, and only discovering years later that the effect was a lot less than they thought, and there are all kinds of bizarre side effects they didn’t account for in the original studies.

Any man is perfectly able to ratchet his testosterone and libido up as high as he could possibly want them to be using the methods I’ve outlined in this article.

Do these take more self-discipline than popping a pill of sea slug essence or injecting cow hormones? Yes. Are these far, far better ways to regulate your hormonal levels? Also yes.

You can have as much testosterone and as high a libido as you want – and best of all, you can do it completely for free. There are men in their 80s and 90s who are going around having non-stop sex in nursing homes… if you read the reports from nursing home nurses it’s shocking. I guarantee you the reason these guys are having so much sex is dementia kicking in making them feel like kids again, and then they start thinking obsessively about sex and it shoots their T-levels and libido way up.

Just get out of the lifestyle habits that keep your testosterone levels suppressed, and adopt a lifestyle that allows them to SOAR.

When you do this, you get the control back – instead of handing it over to society, vlogging schoolmarms, the pharmaceutical companies, and so on.

Chase Amante