Man 2.0 Engineering the Alpha

too high, you can kiss your sex life good-bye.
    Lift Heavy Weights
    As you know, we’re fitness professionals. So now might be a good time to remind you that our professional status doesn’t mean we only know how to build muscle and burn fat. We also understand how lifting weights can completely change your physiology so you function like a different human being.
    So please trust us when we tell you this: lifting weights will improve your sex life. Not might or maybe . It will happen.
    Lifting weights increases GH and testosterone—in a big way. Finnish researchers found that guys who regularly lift free weights (like dumbbells and barbells) boost their testosterone levels by up to 49 percent. And that testosterone increase is directly linked to more sexual virility.
    So pumping iron boosts your libido. But that’s no reason to think it can save your sex life, right?
    Wrong.
    Most men (and doctors) had assumed for decades that your sex life naturally declines as you age. After all, you already know that GH and testosterone start to drop after the age of thirty. And that’s why everything becomes a little softer. But when it comes to your sex life, new research has found that it’s not aging that reduces your testosterone and subsequently your sex drive. It’s inactivity. Australian researchers recently discovered that the drop in testosterone wasn’t correlated with age but rather with behaviors such as obesity, low activity levels, and smoking.
    That means lifestyle decisions that cause poor health are killing your sex life. The insulin resistance. The extra fat. The cortisol building. Since most people become less active as they grow older, their testosterone levels drop—and with it so does their sexual mojo. But if you stay active, the decrease of testosterone between the ages of forty and eighty can be almost completely blunted. Add it to the list of ways the iron game keeps you strong.
    Eat More Fat
    By now you know that eating more fat is not the demonized cause of obesity that many people think it is. You need fat to lose fat. You need fat to build muscle. And guess what? You also need fat to have awesome sex. Fat plays an important role in regulating all your sex hormones. And fats are integral to your sexual functioning. British scientists discovered that having productive, fertile sperm depends on polyunsaturated fats, which you can receive from fatty fish (like salmon or trout) or fish oil supplements. Those same fats also promote good circulation and blood flow. If you weren’t aware, your erection depends on healthy blood flow, meaning that without those healthy fats, buildup can occur in your arteries that will hurt your sexual health.
    Want more proof? Vegetarians—whose diets are typically lower in fat—were found to have lower levels of testosterone compared to those who had higher fat intake in their diet, according to the Journal of Endocrinology and the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Is that a definitive cause-and-effect relationship? Of course not. But it is a powerful correlation that shouldn’t be overlooked when you consider the hormonal benefits of fat and the links between fat intake and improved sexual functioning.
    A quick warning: do all you can to avoid trans fats. They can potentially hurt the quality of your sperm. Trans fats are the reason fat has such a bad rap. They are artificially produced fats that are linked to every possible disease, and they will make your gut expand faster than you can say, “Doughnuts.” Trans fats exist in many processed foods like cookies, fries, chips, and muffins.
    The bottom line: Fat doesn’t make you fat. But the wrong type of fat can do damage.
    Eat Less Soy
    When we say to eat less soy, what we really mean is that you should stop eating all soy. We don’t care if you’re vegetarian or vegan or you run a soy farm. Soy is not good for men. And that’s not only our opinion. The brilliant minds at Harvard found a strong relationship between poor sperm quality and erectile dysfunction and the amount of soy in a man’s diet.
    Soy is great for women (in moderation) because it has estrogenic effects. But as we mentioned before, as you build estrogen, you simultaneously kill your sex dive.
    The hard part about cutting soy is that it’s hiding in lots of products that you probably think are harmless, including protein powders and bars, and many cereal products. Vegetarians typically have diets that are higher in soy, which might