What Is a Testosterone Booster, And What Can It Do For Your Lean Body Goals?
As a bodybuilder, when you start looking into adding supplements to your regime, you will most definitely come across the term ‘testosterone booster.’ Many people mistakenly think that this is steroids – but it isn’t. It is true that the FDA has banned a couple of products that were touted as testosterone boosters, but this was because they contained anabolic steroids.
Testosterone is produced naturally in the body. In fact, it is considered to be one of the most active anabolic hormones in the human body. Testosterone levels can be low, high, or normal – normal is what you should be shooting for. A common mistake is that if the testosterone level is high, it results in bigger muscles, in a shorter period of time. Nothing could be further from the truth.
In fact, if the body detects a high level of testosterone, it will automatically start producing less of its own. The next thing that the body does, when it detects too much testosterone is that it goes to work converting that extra testosterone to DHT, which leads to prostate problems and can also...