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Why having adequate testosterone levels will make you successful in life

Updated: Jun 28, 2022

In this article, we‘re going to explore the negative effects of having low testosterone levels, why having adequate test levels translate positively to all aspects of life, it’s relationship with dopamine and goal directed behaviour


💡Effects of having low Testosterone

▪️Contrary to popular belief, higher Testosterone levels (in the physiological range) does not mean you end up being more aggressive

▪️Infact, lower test levels causes mood swings, outbursts, feelings of depression, no motivation/drive

▪️Your threshold of resilience to stress will be lower(you will be more snappy, quit more easily)


💡Having less testosterone means having less Estrogen

•Estrogen is neuroprotective & cardioprotective

•Estrogen drives libido (contrary to popular belief)


▪️Having low estrogen also means less Estrogen mediated collagen synthesis so Weaker bones,decreased skin,hair & nail quality


💡Testosterone, behaviour & mindset

▪️Having adequate/optimal levels of testosterone leads to increased energy, increased motivation & drive, increased glucose uptake into skeletal muscles


▪️All this leads to better mental health, body

composition & quality of life, let me tell you how to🤓


💡"Testosterone makes effort feel good"

▪️In a world filled with competition (even tracking back our evolutionary footprints)

Testosterone makes you forage further & fight harder

▪️It makes you more resilient to stress,

you won't quit as easily

▪️It is not a coincidence that almost all high achievers have high test levels or are on TRT & why there is such

a disproportionately high % of men that are high achievers


💡Dopamine, motivation & testosterone

Dopamine & testosterone are close cousins

Contrary to popular belief, Dopamine is not a molecule of pleasure or happiness

•It is the molecule of motivation & drive


▪️Dopamine is not released when you get a reward but it's released in the anticipation of reward


▪️It generates the motivation & goal directed behaviour to get that reward

▪️Dopamine release is optimal when you have optimal testosterone levels and somewhat disrupted when you don’t


▪️Note : Dopamine is not entirely dependent on testosterone, infact Dopamine levels can also influence

Testosterone/estrogen levels in both males and females


💡How Having optimal test levels increases resilience & decreases

stress

▪️Stress is not a bad thing, the dose

makes the poison

▪️Too little stress is called boredom, the

right amount is called stimulation & too much is a problem

▪️The negative stress response often

has a brain region called "Amygdala" in the

equation

▪️There are receptors in the Amygdala

that testosterone can bind to

▪️When you have enough testosterone, it binds to these receptors and increases the

threshold to endure to that stress



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