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Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Eat Onions and Boost Testosterone

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

4.71.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2023

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Today, we’re going to talk about one of the best natural remedies to increase testosterone: onions.


Testosterone does a lot in the body, including increasing libido, controlling male characteristics, and increasing muscle growth.


When someone takes testosterone, they inactivate the gland that makes the hormone. Generally, we want to choose natural ways to increase testosterone, which can involve natural glandular therapy.


Onions are high in quercetin, which triggers the luteinizing hormone. Luteinizing hormone controls and can increase the production of testosterone in males.


Onions also have a lot of additional health benefits:

• They have powerful antioxidant effects

• They have properties that help with insulin resistance

• They have anti-cancer properties

• They can help increase nitric oxide to support the vascular system

• They may help reduce the risk of cataracts

• They may help reduce the risk of allergies

• They have potent anti-inflammatory properties

• They may help decrease blood pressure

• They can act as a diuretic


It’s best to consume raw onions to support healthy testosterone levels. However, you can sauté the onions or cook them—just be sure not to overcook them.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Let's talk about how you can actually boost testosterone just with consuming more onions.

0:06.1

And of course, testosterone is definitely a problem with men as they get older.

0:10.3

By the time you reach 40, every year your testosterone decreases by 1%.

0:14.4

And testosterone does many things beyond just increasing libido.

0:18.3

It's in control of male characteristics like hair on your body.

0:22.9

It's also involved in muscle. There are quite a few people that are also going the testosterone

0:26.9

route and getting testosterone pellets and taking testosterone injections, things like that,

0:32.9

which I'm not crazy about those therapies simply because anytime you start taking a hormone, you

0:39.0

inactivate the gland that makes that hormone. So my question is, why would you need to

0:44.1

increase the hormone in the first place? What's actually causing a decrease in that hormone?

0:48.9

Generally speaking, a much better approach would be more glandular therapy, supporting the gland

0:53.5

with certain nutrition or even

0:55.0

whole desiccated glandulars. Because that way you're supporting the thing that communicates,

1:01.1

not necessarily the communication between the gland and the receptor. Because really the endocrine

1:07.5

system is a communication network, very similar to neurotransmitters that work

1:12.5

through the nervous system. So hormones are created, sent through the blood, and get received

1:17.7

to create different effects. And so when you tend to bypass Mother Nature, it always comes

1:23.5

with a problem or a side effect. But in this video, I want to talk just about something that

1:28.1

won't have any side effects, onions. Now, what does an onion do for testosterone? Well, apparently,

1:35.2

there's something in the onion that triggers another hormone called loutenizing hormone from the

1:41.9

pituitary. And lupinizing hormone in males travels down to the

1:47.4

testicles to increase testosterone. So luthinizing hormone is kind of like the controller or regulator

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