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| Comparison Tongkat Ali with Exogenous Testosterone Replacement Therapy |
The term 'exogenous' means 'coming from external'. In other words, synthetic testosterone is introduced into your body during such therapies and it starts to acts like your body's own testosterone. And that's when all the trouble begins. What happens then is your pituitary gland will signal to your Leydig and other testosterone synthesizing cell to stop testosterone production. The result: penile shrinkage and testicular atrophy.
The mechanism of action of Tongkat Ali (Eurycoma Longifolia Jack) is the complete opposite.
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First of all, it is not a synthetic testosterone product. It can't be since its a natural herb. What it does instead is... it increases your body's own testosterone production by stimulating the secretion of Luteinzing Hormones (LH) which in turns stimulate the Leydig cells of your testicles to produce testosterone.
Besides that, Tongkat Ali also raises your body's levels of free testosterone. A large proportion of the testosterone that circulates in your body is bound by a protein call SHBG (sex hormone binding globulin). Testosterone that is bound to SHBG is considered ineffective.
Only free testosterone exerts the effects that are attributed to the hormone: one androgenic (masculinizing and sexualizing, both physiologically and mentally, and thus enhancing libido) and the other anabolic (building tissue, mainly muscle). It is commonly believe that Tongkat Ali's active ingredients capture and bind SHBG and therefore prevent SHBG from capturing circulating free testosterone.
Resource : Eurycoma Longifolia Jack, also known as ''Tongkat Ali'' is said to have aphrodisiac properties and will enhance male sexual libido besides other medicinal values such as treatment for dysentery, glandular swelling, fever, malaria and other ailments.
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