I'm not surprised that glycine is protective; it is one of the three components needed for Glutathione synthesis. Glutathione (a tripeptide made up of Glycine+Cysteine+Glutamine) is a very powerful antioxidant that offsets/prevents damage from free radicals and heavy metals.
Very interesting that glycine also enhances steroidogenesis. I assume this benefits females as well. Great if it upregulates Vitamin D production, as D is a steroid hormone (and master immunomodulator).
Yes, and DHT is definitely not a bad thing. The drug finasteride, which lowers DHT, can have very serious side effects and IMO should never be prescribed to healthy individuals who do not have prostate cancer.
Framing it like that made me picture someone who was insincere through being shy and lacking confidence to say what they think... Though that's probably influenced by the other reframing Joseph wrote.
I guess being insincere to be more agreeable can be more positive than an over confident jerk, but it seems that it's probably best to be on the confident and honest end of the scale, rather than timid, shy and weak.
And even if "too much" testosterone does turn you into a jerk - maybe this goes some way to explaining women being attracted to the (strong, high testosterone) "bad guys" 🤔
So what you're saying is a Red Bull a day will keep the doctor away?
Also eat more meat for healthy kidneys, including the connective tissue and fat many people remove, as this will protect my balls.
Perfect. I love meat.
Best source of Taurine is seafood not Red Bull! Otherwise the supplements are cheap (at least up til now :P).
So much for toxic masculinity, huh?!!
I'm not surprised that glycine is protective; it is one of the three components needed for Glutathione synthesis. Glutathione (a tripeptide made up of Glycine+Cysteine+Glutamine) is a very powerful antioxidant that offsets/prevents damage from free radicals and heavy metals.
Very interesting that glycine also enhances steroidogenesis. I assume this benefits females as well. Great if it upregulates Vitamin D production, as D is a steroid hormone (and master immunomodulator).
Glycine can increase DHT , which is 8 times stronger than testosterone
Yes, and DHT is definitely not a bad thing. The drug finasteride, which lowers DHT, can have very serious side effects and IMO should never be prescribed to healthy individuals who do not have prostate cancer.
To be fair, the way I've seen "toxic" being used it simply means "honesty". At least in those collectivist circles who likes to use that wording.
Insincere= low testosterone
Framing it like that made me picture someone who was insincere through being shy and lacking confidence to say what they think... Though that's probably influenced by the other reframing Joseph wrote.
I guess being insincere to be more agreeable can be more positive than an over confident jerk, but it seems that it's probably best to be on the confident and honest end of the scale, rather than timid, shy and weak.
And even if "too much" testosterone does turn you into a jerk - maybe this goes some way to explaining women being attracted to the (strong, high testosterone) "bad guys" 🤔
Can we also deduct that being more honest and saying the truth increases testosterone as well?