Paul Saladino· MD
this idea of connections between dietary strategies especially low-fat diets and testosterone was fascinating
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this idea of connections between dietary strategies especially low-fat diets and testosterone was fascinating
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i saw that two of them were the two studies that had vegetarian diets like the testosterone kind of fell off a cliff to be honest and um i just calculated a little kind of back of the envelope i was a bit more than back of the envelope calculation but they they suffered a 26 decrease in testosterone
and like I said there are meta-analyzes showing that higher amounts of saturated fat especially from animal Foods Tallow butter ghee animal fat and your steak or your ground beef is going to be associated with higher levels of testosterone
And there are studies, you know, that showing that vegans have like a little bit lower testosterone
there's a 2020 meta analysis which shows that low fat diets are in fact associated with lower amounts of testosterone in men
there's a 2020 meta analysis that showed that lowfat diets were actually associated with lower testosterone