You Can Use Sunlight to Boost Testosterone and Balance Estrogen

Today we're talking about how exposing your skin to sunlight improves hormone levels for both men and women!

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Endocrine organs are organs of the body that secret hormones and affect other tissues throughout the body or have hormone-like effects. You may not have realized it, but your skin is an endocrine organ, and incredibly it affects some of the most essential hormones in the body; testosterone and estrogen, and if it affects them enough that it:

• Increases sex-steroid levels (testosterone and estrogen)

• Enhances female attractiveness and receptiveness toward males

• Increases female's estrus phase, HPG axis hormones, and follicle growth (= more time during the phase of the menstrual cycle that females are most sexually responsive, as well as increased ovary size.)

And it does all of this when it's exposed to the sun!

A $16.62 Billion Dollar Industry

Hormone replacement therapy is big business. It's expected to reach $16.62 billion by 2026. There are other hormones, but estrogen and testosterone are the big players. Considering how much time we spend indoors with our modern lifestyles, how much physical labor we DON'T have to do to survive, and how crappy our diets are, it's no surprise that the world's hormones are completely out of whack. The good news is that you can make a big difference in your hormonal health by simply getting more sun on your skin. 

What Does That Mean?

It means you can increase your testosterone levels if you're a male and better balance your estrogen levels across your menstrual cycle if you're a female if you get outside and spend time in the sun and let the sun hit your skin. It's literally the easiest thing you could be asked to do to improve your hormonal health.

How do you do it?

The study this information is pulled from had participants spend 20-30 minutes outside at mid-day. The more skin you expose, the stronger the effect will be... but don't go crazy; no one needs to see you naked in the public park on your lunch break. The other consideration is burning. The fairer your skin is, the more likely you'll be to get a sunburn if you're outside and unprotected, so pay attention to that. Trading skin cancer for improved hormone levels isn't a great deal. 

Summary

• Your skin is an endocrine organ and regulates testosterone and estrogen levels

• You can improve your hormone levels by getting sunlight on your skin

• Expose as much skin as is appropriate for your current setting

• 20-30 minutes a day

• Don't burn

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