Low Zinc, Low Testosterone: Science You Should Know

A lot of excessive ejaculation, possibly by masturbation with porn and pornography, could be... one factor driving zinc deficiency.

If you sweat, if you exercise, if you go in the sauna, if you're not eating a lot of whole real foods, if you're eating a lot of grains that contain anti-nutrients that bind to these minerals, you could have a zinc deficiency. If you're watching a lot of porn and masturbating every single day or twice a day, you can induce a zinc deficiency.

What they found here is when they were able to induce a zinc deficiency in adults, there was a commensurate reduction in testosterone levels, and so this is really a causative factor.

There is a positive association with zinc and total testosterone, and a moderate supplementation can actually improve androgen levels and testosterone levels.

Zinc deficiency leads to structural changes within the testicles and impairs testosterone synthesis through oxidative stress and autophagy, adversely affecting the normal development of male gonads [and] spermatogenesis and fertilization.

Testosterone levels have declined some 30% over the last 15 years alone.

The conversion of testosterone to its active form, dihydrotestosterone (DHT), requires 5-alpha reductase, which is dependent on zinc for its activity.

They say that there was a zinc loss of 1.4 mg per day with frequent ejaculation.