More on the wonders of Vitamin D3:
Tim Ferris who wrote the famous 4 Hour Workweek (highly recommended to anyone interesting in the "Happier Abroad" theme, btw, but I'll stay on topic here), wrote another book called the "4 Hour Body" which contains lots more info on D3.
(Maybe not the catchiest book title, but NBD because it is a very solid book loaded with information about melting fat, building muscle, improving sex, and more.)
Here's some excerpts of what he said about D3 in particular in a chapter called "Sex Machine" (LOL, I like that chapter title a lot I must say):
I now use two protocols that I believe are effective for increasing both testosterone and LH, based on repeated blood test results. Neither requires needles or prescription meds.
The first is for long-term maintenance and general well-being. The second is for short-term “nitro” boosts of sex drive and testosterone. Sheer fun, in other words. The detailed rationales behind each can be found in “Sex Machine II” in the Appendices, but let’s start with the nutshell version.
PROTOCOL #1: LONG-TERM AND SUSTAINED
Fermented cod liver oil + vitamin-rich butter fat—2 capsules upon waking and before bed
Vitamin D3—3,000–5,000 IU upon waking and before bed (6,000–10,000 IU per day), until you reach blood levels of 55 ng/mL.
Short ice baths and/or cold showers—10 minutes each, upon waking and right before bed
Brazil nuts—3 nuts upon waking, 3 nuts before bed (see important footnote).15
( Note to any of you "T-gurl" chasing buttboys on this forum: He means the kind of "brazil nuts" that grow on trees, not Brazillian men's gonads, so don't you batty boys get any dirty ideas here if you're looking for an excuse to go to Brazil to commit unnatural acts of indecency with "pre-op T-gurls" or wtf-ever you guys called those schizos, LOL!
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PROTOCOL #2: SHORT-TERM AND FUN “NITRO BOOST”
20–24 Hours Prior to Sex
Eat at least 800 milligrams of cholesterol (example: four or more large whole eggs or egg yolks) within three hours of bedtime, the night before you want to have incredible sex.
The Wolverine intro to this chapter was partially thanks to two ¾-pound rib-eye steaks the night before, but it’s easier to stomach hard-boiled eggs. Why before bed?
Testosterone is derived from cholesterol, which is primarily produced at night during sleep (between midnight and 4:00–6:00 A.M.).
[ By the way, while there's always such thing as "too much of a good thing," based on everything I've learned he's right that cholesterol is GOOD FOR YOU and your cells need it, despite the bollocks propaganda pushed by the medical establishment. I've personally seen people undergo a significant decline in their health as a result of being lemmings and following their medical doctors' advice to cut out nearly all their healthy cholesterol their body actually needed more of, not less of. I know doctors often are well-meaning and sometimes even give good advice, but I have seen first-hand the damage caused by hysteria against healthy forms of cholesterol like you might get from egg yolks and so on. Anyway, there's more about cholesterol in this book in other chapters FYI, but I'm not posting it here. ]
Four Hours Prior to Sex
4 Brazil nuts
20 raw almonds
2 capsules of the above-mentioned fermented cod/butter combination
On this same subject, here is some vitamin test kits Ferris recommended:
ZRT At-Home Vitamin D Test Kits (
www.fourhourbody.com/testd) If you spend a lot of your time indoors, there’s a good chance that you are deCcient in vitamin D. Don’t just guess what amount of vitamin D you need, as overdosing will produce side effects.
SpectraCell is a more reliable blood-based test, but ZRT’s saliva mail-in kit can give you an inexpensive estimate of your vitamin D levels. Once you’ve established your baseline, you can use sunlight, supplementation, and UV-B lamps to increase levels, following eight weeks of which you can perform an “after” test to track changes.
Personally I decided not to bother and just try out supplementation with D3 without testing levels (since you'd have to be really overdosing it hardcore to actually have negative issues arise), which worked great for me starting surprisingly soon.
Also I already know sunlight's good for you and agree with gsjackson about that (just with the caveat I mentioned about how if you're as "Nordic" a genetic phenotype as I am then you better watch out not to get too much of a good thing at once, because I have decades of xp turning myself into a lobster from too much sun when doing things like surfing or having fun at the beach, LOL).
This "SpectraCell Nutrient Test" kit, on the other hand, sounds pretty damn interesting! Ferris says he identified a selenium deficiency that tripled his tesosterone levels after correcting it. (NICE! I really like the sound of potentially increasing T levels by multiples using only healthy vitamins/supplements, as opposed to TRT). And he said another guy had B12 and D deficiences that he corrected, which made him feel so good afterward he said he felt like he was on coke, LOL!
I always valiantly resisted the admitted urge to try coke, but I have to say I'm tempted to spring for something like this even though I'm not crazy about the $300+ price tag, because that sounds !@#$in' awesome:
SpectraCell Nutrient Testing (
www.fourhourbody.com/spectracell): $364 This test is used to pinpoint vitamin and micronutrient defficiencies. This test helped me identify a selenium deffciency, which—once corrected—helped me to triple my testosterone levels.
One other test subject identified enormous B-12 and vitamin D deficiencies, which—once corrected—made him so energetic that he felt like he was on cocaine. In a good way, that is. Highly, highly recommended.