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Tongkat ali against depression, for bodybuilding, and for better sex


By Serge Kreutz (2010)

For most people, the reason for depression is a lack of sexual satisfaction, and a lack of interest in sexual satisfaction. The two are interconnected in the manner: a person's permanent sexual partner is not, or no longer, capable of sexual satisfaction, simply because of boredom that has set in. And because caged in traditional moral beliefs, new, exciting sexual partners are ruled out. Thus, the person loses interest in sex. Depression comes.

Depression is treated with selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, such as Prozac and Zoloft. Because these drugs cause a state of mind that would be adequate for a person with a high level of satisfaction, the need to engage in sexual activities is bypassed.

Of course, the drug-caused state of nondepressiveness is far inferior to what is achieved with a generally satisfying lovelife. Which is why "patients" on antidepressants often need help on what to do to re-establish libido and sex function.

Get off selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors and have a healthy variety of sex partners. To jumpstart your new life, use cabergoline (brand name: Dostinex), other dopaminergics such as bromocriptine, or yohimbe (if you are not prone to anxiety and can stomach the side effects).

Tongkatali has been shown to heighten testosterone. It is alleged that it does by stimulating Leydig cells in testicles to make testosterone. This is different from the action of testosterone products, which act like own testosterone and causes the Leydig cells to close down their production of the hormone. All exogenous testosterone products, including anabolic steroids, cause testicular, penile shrinkage.

I think that this is not sufficiently emphasized by anti-doping programs: bodybuilders who dope with testosterone and steroids will have their penises to become very small, as their thumbs or little fingers, and if exogenous testosterone or anabolic steroids are taken some time, the loss is permanent. The effect of tongkat ali is the opposite. Much better. Tongkat ali stimulates the body's own testosterone production in the Leydig cells of the testicles, the testicles and surrounding tissue will grow very big. (During puberty, it's a spur in Leydig cell activity, which causes a boy's sexual organs to become the size of a man's. Furthermore, testosterone over-production endocrine disorders during adolescence make oversized male genitals.)

While a large number of men may consider big penises and testicles a benefit in its own right, the mass gain also is good for sexual function, especially erections and also ejaculations. The erectile and ejaculatory support of tongkat ali is, so it appears, a direct consequence of the increased size of the male accessory sex organs.


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