Eat your yogurt guys to increase testicle size and increase testosterone levels.

in #steemstem6 years ago (edited)

Can gut bacteria regulate testosterone levels and testicle size?


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The gut microbiota (the collection of all the microorganisms in your gut) has important roles in human health. Our microbiome has been implicated in regulating immunity, obesity, cancer and even behavior. Scientists are trying to understand the benefits of specific microbes and the mechanism of how these microorganism affect human health. While I was researching about our microbiome (the collective genome of all of our microbiota) I came across this interesting article entitled: “Probiotic Microbes Sustain Youthful Serum Testosterone Levels and Testicular Size in Aging Mice

As males age, there is a reduction of circulating testosterone. This reduction of testosterone has many adverse effects including reduced sperm production, low sex drive, increased body fat, decreased muscle and bone mass, fatigue, testicle atrophy (balls shrinkage), and depression. In this study, the researchers showed that if they fed mice the probiotic bacteria Lactobacillus reuteri (a bacteria strain found in human milk and lives in our gut) it increased the size of their testicles and they also had higher levels of circulating testosterone compared to mice not fed Lactobacillus reuteri. In another experiments the researchers fed the mice a junk food diet but with the Lactobacillus reuteri, and still this group had bigger balls and more testosterone than the controls. The researchers propose that the probiotic bacteria increases gastrointestinal immunity. This increased immune response can activate metabolic pathways that restore tissue homeostasis and overall health.


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While this research is done in mice, this research suggests that probiotic microorganisms may offer practical options for management of disorders frequently associated with normal human aging. Dietary L. reuteri or other probiotic supplementation may provide an alternative natural approach to prevention of low testosterone and male hypogonadism.


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So for a healthy body, you should get plenty of probiotic bacteria from living sources, such as fermented foods like:
Sauerkraut, Yogurt, Kefir, Cheeses, Pickles, and Kombucha. This will increase your overall health and testosterone production significantly.

Take care of your microbiome and your microbiome will take care of you.
Cheers!
ian

All images are used under the Creative Commons licensing and Fair use copyright policy.

References:
Poutahidis et al. (2014). Probiotic Microbes Sustain Youthful Serum Testosterone Levels and Testicular Size in Aging Mice. PLoS One. Jan 2;9(1) https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0084877

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I'd like to see a study into which brands of yoghurt pump them up the most. I always felt a bit heavier after eating muller fruit pots... anyone want to meet me outside Sainsbury's with 20 quid and a sack of mice?

Hehe, I like PLoS One articles. And yoghurt



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Hi, @rcebike. Even though this article has been upvoted by @steemstem, I want to point out one thing:

All images are used under the CC0 Creative Commons, Free for commercial use. No attribution required.

You wrote the sentence above at the end of your article. I think you need permission from the original author if you want to use your second image (it was taken from a journal and I think that's not CCO creative common, and your third image was marked (CC BY-SA 2.0) which requires attribution.

Nevertheless, it is a decent article. Great job.

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Hi @chloroform thanks for the reply. You are correct for paid subscription Journals like Cell, Science and Nature where you need the Journal and Author's permission, but the PLoS Journals are Open Access and all PLOS journals applies the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license to all articles and other works they publish. From the PLoS website:

If you submit your paper for publication by PLOS, you agree to have the CC BY license applied to your work. Under this Open Access license, you as the author agree that anyone can reuse your article in whole or part for any purpose, for free, even for commercial purposes. Anyone may copy, distribute, or reuse the content as long as the author and original source are properly cited. This facilitates freedom in re-use and also ensures that PLOS content can be mined without barriers for the needs of research.

Originally I was using pixabay.com images that have the CCO licence so I changed it to Creative Commons licensing as it encompasses the various licences. I fixed the attribution for the images.
Cheers!
ian

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