Health, Longevity & Biohacking
Thomas DeLauer says marginal zinc deficiency can sharply suppress testosterone
Thomas DeLauer
1 Handful is the Most Powerful Food for Men Over 40 (93% increase Testosterone)
"What they found is that people that didn't have enough zinc, their serum testosterone went from a baseline of around 39.9 nanomoles per liter down to 10.6. So, that's the whole 73% drop that I mentioned at the beginning, right? It's huge."
YouTuber Thomas DeLauer cites a Nutrition paper he says found older adults with marginal zinc deficiency saw serum testosterone fall from about 39.9 nmol/L to 10.6 nmol/L (a 73% drop). He adds that in a supplementation arm, restoring zinc sufficiency “doubled” testosterone from 8.3 to 16, arguing zinc is not a booster above normal but a reversible cause of low testosterone when deficiency is present.
From this episode
Thomas DeLauer