Unhealthy Testosterone Boosters: Mobile Phone Radiation and Cat Litter Disease
If you are still looking for ways to "naturally" boost your testosterone levels, here are two ways of doing so, you better avoid. Excessive Cell Phone Use to Boost Testosterone The first one has been discovered by Gutschi et al. only recently ( Gutschi. 2011 ). When they investigated the effects of cell phone radiation on men's semen parameters, the scientists were in fact able to confirm their hypothesis that exposure to cell phone radiation leads to decreased sperm quality (cf. fig. 1, left). An interesting side-finding, however was the unexpected correlation of cell phone use and testosterone levels (cf. fig. 1, right) observed in the study. Figure 1: Sperm health (left) and hormone levels (right) in cell phone users and non-users (data adapted from Gutschi. 2011 ) So, you love your cell phone and don't want to have kids, anyway? Fine, keep using it, but do not expect to improve your athletic performance, gain mu...