I've also been looking into ways to max out all-natural testosterone levels so I can stay as muscular as I can for the rest of my life, and I found this article quoted below:
Apparently drinking alcohol demolishes your testosterone levels if you drink regularly.
Also, he totally nailed it about how a lot of us who came from towns or cities with a macho drinking culture got introduced the idea that drinking and smoking a lot would make you more of a man. Well, I've done a lot of that before and managed to avoid "gender confusion," but looks like the science is clear that the exact opposite is the case, and drinking and smoking will lower your tesosterone, mess with your gonads, and do all other kinds of nasty !@#$.
I'm going to try and knock it off completely until I'm sleeping like a rock again and have all the muscle I need, so that when I get older and grizzled I can be as pumped up as Mel Gibson or Vince McMahon in my senior years, LOL.
https://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/dean3.htm
...I have studied drinking, and I have come to the conclusion that it is the anti-muscle. As far as bodybuilding goes it's everything you would never want to have in you, and here is why:
Alcohol Myopathy
A recent study done by Muscle and Fitness showed that drinking caused an average loss of muscle somewhere around the 33% range. This is called 'alcoholic myopathy' and a decreased rate of protein synthesis has been liked to it.
Protein synthesis is important in the building of new muscle, so not only does alcohol destroy previously existing muscle, it also robs your body of the ability to produce any more muscle.
Lets talk about fat loss for a minute. Alcohol is empty calories, 7 calories per gram to be exact. And it slows your metabolism, a pretty mean combination. So while you are drinking, your half-assed metabolism has completely given up on burning fat, and is just trying to keep up with the flood of extra calories!
It Lowers Testosterone
But the biggest kick about alcohol for us guys is it lowers testosterone levels! Testosterone is what helps us build muscle. But that isn't all, it raises estrogen levels! My god guys, that means it's turning us into a women, no kidding. Bitch tits and changes in body fat storage all throughout the body are possible! This is insane, and people do this to their bodies for pleasure? Testosterone levels appear below average even up to a week later. So if you are going out and getting drunk every weekend, your testosterone levels may not have been normal for quite some time.
Stock up on ZMA it may be the only thing to help you, besides quitting of course. Dehydration is a side effect of drinking as well. Alcohol is a diuretic which makes you want to piss, over and over and over, which is removing all the water from your body. Hangovers are caused by this. Hangovers are cause by dehydration, and the lack of essential vitamins and minerals in your body which alcohol flushes out.
Also if you drink more alcohol than your body can process, the toxins build up, cause the "sick" feeling. Dehydration is also bad on the muscles considering muscle grow best when consumed in water. Which is how creatine works. Take away that water, and your muscles don't have a happy growing environment. And considering that most people are dehydrated most of their lives anyway, because the average person doesn't drink enough water, it makes you wonder just how smart it is to remove the little water they do have.
P.S. I also used that ZMA stuff he mentions in the article back in my 20's and it got me such deep sleep it was almost too intense. (ZMA is a blend of natural minerals, not some weird GMO thing.)Long term effects include the body's fat storage deposits to change into a more female mode (change your body's fat storage from the gut to your hips and ass for example) liver cancer and death. All this over a drug which has a primary purpose of making your turn off that part of your brain which says "Think about what you are doing first".
But "It Makes You A Man"
The annoying thing is people who believe drinking "makes you a man" (I have heard this many times before) or people who give it up for health reasons are retarded. Oh yeah, drinking makes you a man, a fat man. But in reality, drinking can start turning you into a women, kind of funny in it's own little way. It isn't all bad though, going out and drinking once in a while isn't going to kill you, especially if you are young.
Professional bodybuilders tend to say the thing they regret is that they didn't enjoy themselves when they were younger. Its important to have fun, but there is a balance that young people don't seem to get down. But as long as you leave this article knowing a little more about what alcohol can do to you, the point of this article was fulfilled.
I'm still eventually going to need to try all the cool different kinds of Japanese beer they have when I get out there, but think I'll take a shot at "tea-totaling" until I GTFO of the States and get over there.
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