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green tea every night before going to bed and has kept up the habit. It
has been nine years since his prostate removal and chemotherapy treat-
ments, and he is still cancer-free.Increasing the Sex Drive in Men
In men and women the same hormones fuel the sex drive—progesterone,
testosterone, estrogen, and DHEA; but they are proportioned differently.
They also play different roles. For example, while progesterone is the chief
hormone involved in the sex drive in women, testosterone is the hormone
principally responsible for arousing men’s sex drives. Men have on average
forty to sixty times more testosterone than adult females. Testosterone in
men, then, is the equivalent hormone to progesterone in women.
While the dominance of estrogen over progesterone in women
lowers the sex drive, the conversion of testosterone to dihydrotestos-
terone (DHT) lessens the sex drive in men. Since testosterone drops
1 to 2 percent each year beginning at the age of thirty, men start out
with a disadvantage. The lowering of the libido due to the conversion
of testosterone to DHT by the enzyme 5 alpha reductase, however,
can be slowed. Diet should be the fi rst consideration.
Take the niacin test to establish your metabolic type—meat eater,
grain eater, or balanced metabolism—and then follow through with the
right diet. This will lower the acid waste in the blood that accelerates
the conversion of testosterone to DHT and increases estrogen levels.
Getting rid of abdominal fat is essential because the fat cells in the abdo-
men absorb testosterone. When this happens the body is robbed of the
hormone that stimulates the sex drive and helps keep the body young.
Omega-3, omega-6, and omega-9 fatty acids are necessary for testoster-
one production. Eating a variety of organic, unroasted nuts, including
walnuts, is the best way to satisfy these fatty acid requirements.Increasing the Libido
Injections of pure testosterone boost the libido, but a more effective
way of taking testosterone is transdermally, such as patches or pellets
implanted under the skin. Taking testosterone “in a steady day-in-day-