There's nothing you can do about your low testosterone
I got this blackpilled response to one of my tweets the other day (paraphrased):
“There’s nothing we can do to increase our testosterone naturally.”
And honestly, I get where it's coming from.
Natural testosterone boosters suck.
Spilanthes gives you a 15 ng/dl boost.
Royal jelly? Maybe 25 ng/dl.
Tongkat? Somewhere between 25–100 ng/dl on a good day.
These are puny numbers.
Imagine your testosterone is 300 ng/dl. You take royal jelly and it bumps you up to 325 ng/dl. That’s nothing. When your goal is 800+, it feels like you’re rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic. No wonder guys feel hopeless.
But here’s the part most people miss:
We have plenty of evidence that testosterone can go down, and why.
Nutritional Deficiencies Can Crush Testosterone
One study cut zinc intake by 50% and saw a 4x drop in testosterone after 20 weeks.
A client of mine swapped out beef for salmon. His testosterone went from 700 → 350. He swapped back to beef and 6 weeks later, his testosterone returned to 700.
So we know this much: remove the right foods or minerals, and testosterone plummets.
Inflammation Destroys Testosterone
When your gut is leaky and overrun with gram-negative bacteria, those bacteria release endotoxins.
Endotoxins (LBP on the graph) enter your bloodstream, cause systemic inflammation (IL-6), and shut down testosterone production.
The more inflammation you have, the more suppressed your HPTA becomes.
So anything that reduces inflammation — like gut healing, better sleep, reducing PUFA, or even aspirin — will help keep testosterone from dropping.
So What’s the Real Strategy?
Here’s the paradox:
Increasing testosterone isn’t about pushing it up with herbs.
It’s about stopping it from going down in the first place.
It’s about building a biological environment where the cells that make testosterone — the Leydig cells — can actually do their job.
When cells are given what they need — oxygen, nutrients, energy, low inflammation — they perform. That includes testosterone production.
This is why some guys have 1,000+ ng/dl and barely think about it. Their cells just work.
Your job is to make your cells work like that.
Not everyone will hit 1,000. Just like not everyone will be 6’5”. But there’s a massive difference between being genetically limited and being biologically suppressed.
Remember:
The goal isn’t to increase testosterone, but to prevent testosterone from dropping. Cellular resiliency.
When you do that correctly, low testosterone will go up.
You Can’t Compare Yourself to Outliers
Some people can smoke 2 packs a day, drink a gallon of Coke, and slam a bottle of whiskey — and live to 100.
Some guys have a testosterone of 1500 ng/dl while living off cereal and energy drinks.
That’s not the standard. That’s genetic luck.
Most people need to work hard just to maintain decent testosterone.
And that’s okay. Because what you’re building is cellular resiliency — a system that can resist damage, adapt, and function under pressure.
That’s what the EnhancedNatty system is all about: building resiliency at the cellular level.
What Role Do Herbs Play?
Herbs can help. They can fill in small gaps. Give a little extra support. Maybe make you feel better short-term.
But they’re not the solution.
If your testosterone is crashing because of gut inflammation and nutrient loss, taking tongkat is like using a squirt gun to put out a house fire.
Final Point: We Optimize Every Other Hormone Naturally
Think about it:
We can raise and lower cholesterol through diet.
We can raise IGF-1 through carbs and liver health.
We can regulate cortisol and estrogen with diet, sleep, and stress management.
We can support thyroid hormone production with iodine, selenium, liver, and carbs.
So why should testosterone be the one hormone we can’t influence?
The truth is: you can.
But you need a system. One that looks at the full picture — not just “take this booster.”
What If You’ve Tried Everything?
If you’re feeling blackpilled, ask yourself: have you really done everything?
Have you:
Tried going extreme with food quality and quantity? (e.g., eating 1kg of beef per day for 30 days)
Eliminated every potential inflammatory food?
Tested your blood, intracellular minerals, gut microbiome, and DNA?
Sometimes, you don’t need a new supplement. You need a second opinion on your test results.
Because if you’re still feeling doomed, it’s probably not that your body is broken — it’s that no one’s helped you interpret what’s actually wrong.
You’re not doomed.
You just haven’t been shown the map.
Build your cellular resiliency.
The EnhancedNatty System — Phase 1 and phase 2 — will walk you through exactly how to do that.
Ready to Fix the Root Cause?
If you’re serious about building real testosterone — not chasing numbers with herbs — then it’s time to go deeper.
TestoTribe is where that happens.
Inside the community, you’ll get:
Access to all my deep protocols (testosterone, DHT, gut, thyroid, liver, sleep)
Support from guys on the same journey, optimizing every system
Personal feedback and guidance — not generic advice
This isn’t another forum. This is your base camp for building high-functioning biology.
👉 Join TestoTribe now and start building the resiliency your body was always capable of.
You’re not stuck. You just need the right strategy — and the right tribe.