Does eating Testicles raise your Testosterone? (Liver King Part 2)

Liver King doesn't just eat liver. He eats tons of testicles too.

EDIT: This was written before this video came out. Turns out Liver King is on tons of steroids.

My last post was looking at Liver King’s physique and pondering whether his diet and lifestyle could actually allow someone to get that jacked without using steroids or exogenous testosterone injections.

Say what you will about his alleged gear usage, but Liver King puts a lot of work into his fitness and physique. He works out twice a day, and this website alleges that he does his famous “Barbarian” exercise every Saturday. This involves holding a 70-pound kettlebell in each hand, strapping 20-pound ankle weights on each leg, carrying 70 pounds in a backpack, and dragging 120 pounds on a sled behind him for one mile. This workout is intended to take 2-6 hours depending on your fitness level. I imagine it’s about an hour long workout for Liver King considering this guy did it in 1:17.

Liver King screaming, vascularly.

Bull Testicles

He used to say he eats liver for breakfast, lunch and dinner but lately he’s been saying that he eats bull testicles 3 times a day as well.

Liver King has talked about on several occasions about the concept of “like supports like.” Essentially, several cultures came to believe that if you ate the liver of an animal, it would support your liver function, if you ate the heart of an animal, it would support your heart’s function. This is true to some degree considering that for example, beef heart is very rich in Coenzyme Q10. CoQ10, being a key component of the electron transport chain, is very important for the production of ATP- the main energy currency of our cells. It also has some antioxidant properties, and CoQ10 supplementation has been shown to improve certain heart conditions. So do testicles improve our testicular conditioning?

Ancient olympians apparently ate raw bull testicles right before their events to give them a boost in vigor. Historian Martin Polley at Britain’s Southampton University says that this ancient form of doping was probably seen as a sign of masculinity.(S)

On that note, if you’re looking for the manliest cook-off, you’ll have to head over to Serbia. Serbia hosts the “World Championship in Cooking Aphrodisiacs and Testicle Specialties.”

In 1889, neurologist Charles-Edouard Brown-Sequard published a paper titled On the physiological and therapeutic role of a juice extracted from the testicles of animals according to a number of facts observed in man. Brown-Sequard alleged that the testes contained a “dynamogenic, invigorating substance.” I couldn’t find the paper itself, but the book Androgens and Androgen Receptors reports that:

Brown-Sequard (1889) published some of the earliest reports suggesting that the ingestion of testicular extract can affect the mood and libido of aging men

The book A History of Endocrinology reports that Brown-Sequard first tried injecting the liquid extract of testicles of “vigorous young mammals” to male rabbits. At the time, it was generally understood that testicles held some powerful essence considering vigorous semen production meant a vigorous man. Also, people back then were asking the same question esteemed modern muscle hypertrophy aficionados are asking today: Does ejaculating too much make you less powerful?

Since Brown-Sequard found no harmful side effects to the rabbits, the 72 year old gave himself a series of subcutaneous injections of ground dog testicle extract. After eight injections of the watery dog testicle extract, Brown-Sequard’s “strength, vigour and mental activity improved and that there was increased contractility of the bladder and of the intestine.”