Tongkat ali, in sufficiently high dosage (about 500mg per day), can act as weight loss agent, especially in women.
This is a direct consequence of tongkat ali’s power to raise testosterone levels.
Testosterone is also one of six hormones produced by the female reproductive organs.
Myths often associated with testosterone in women have placed fear in many women and resulted in few women considering raising testosterone levels.
Although testosterone is usually thought in terms of a male hormone, women also need it in small doses, according to the February issue of Mayo Clinic Women’s health source.
Women’s ovaries and adrenal glands are both responsible for testosterone production. Studies show that testosterone helps women maintain muscle and bone strength, and boosts sex drive and libido.
Women manufacture about one-seventh the amount of testosterone each day that men do. After menopause or ovary removal testosterone production drops off further. Estrogen replacement therapy can also lead to decreased testosterone production, leading some postmenopausal women to go to their doctors with concerns about having less energy and lower libido.
When testosterone levels in the blood increase in testosterone-deficient women, bone density usually improves, and women generally report feeling better.
If testosterone levels are raised through tongkat ali, prolactin levels automatically drop. If prolactin levels are kept down, various effects of dopamine are pronounced, especially libido.
Appetite for food is suppressed and appetite for sex is pronounced. Most diet medications work by enhancing dopamine and norepinephrine, and therefore suppressing appetite for food.
The advantage is that the typical side effects of direct dopaminergic and norepinephrinergic stimulation are avoided. . 实际上, one doesn’t feel as if one has “taken something”.
But it is not only via the testosterone – dopamine – control of appetite route that tongkat ali aids in weight loss. Proper testosterone tone also supports an anabolic metabolism. This means a tendency to burn fat and to build muscle instead.
And last not least, tongkat ali will effect subtle lifestyle changes that are in support of weight loss. Increased sexual activity and enhancement of exercise or athletic performance.
Raising testosterone by taking tongkat ali provides several benefits to women:
- improved relief of vasomotor symptoms of menopause
- increased energy levels
- enhanced feelings of well-being
- decreased breast tenderness
- improves sexual desire
- increased sexual sensitivity
- increases the frequency of coitus
- enhances orgasm
Do you have Symptoms of Testosterone Deficiency?
- diminished sexual pleasure
- 抑郁症
- less sensitivity of breast and genital tissues
- decreased orgasmic response
- lower libido
- lower energy
