Increase Your Nitric Oxide Naturally. STEP 2.
Most men simply do not realize the massive difference that boosting your nitric oxide levels can make. You just feel better. You exercise better. Dioxins and their effects on human health. Vegan Men: More Testosterone But Less Cancer. Just a few days of walking and eating healthy plant foods can lower the level of the cancer-promoting growth hormone IGF-1 enough to reverse cancer cell growth in a Petri dish.
This is detailed in my last three blog posts Cancer-Proofing Your Body, Treating an Enlarged Prostate With Diet, and How do Plant-Based Diets Fight Cancer? We know decreasing animal product consumption decreases our IGF-1 levels, but how low do we have to go? 8 Scientific Reasons Why Vegan Men Are More Manly. It’s common for men to believe that meat makes us manly.
Salads and smoothies are fine for the ladies, but grilling juicy steaks is just part of being a guy… or so we’re taught. I’d suspect that this stereotype is a huge hurdle for a lot of men who would otherwise like to explore a vegetarian diet. Even in my own life, I bought into the “meat is manly” idea just like the next guy. When I first went vegan many years ago, I felt embarrassed to order a veggie burrito at Chipotle for the first time, as if people would laugh at me or something.
I realized that was insane pretty quickly, but it is nevertheless a real challenge for most men. Vegans Have More Testosterone. A study published in the British Journal of Cancer compared IGF-1 levels in vegans, vegetarians and meat-eaters¹.
Insulin-like growth factor-1, known as IGF-1, is a hormone that is necessary for proper growth in children, but is now understood to be a major contributor to the growth of tumors in both men and women over the age of 40. The study recruited 696 men: 226 meat-eaters, 237 vegetarians and 233 vegans. In addition to comparing IGF-1 levels, the researchers also looked at the differences in testosterone levels between the three groups.