Having perused through this thread periodically, does anyone have any suggestions on food forms or combos that help with the libido?
I am not into ANY herbal remedies (Don't trust) and I don't take ANY pills/pharmaceuticals. The obvious myths are oysters and chocolate, just wondering if any of you Tom Cats have had any luck with forms of food/combos, organics, things like that.
Thanks for any help in advance
The study of aphrodisiac (libido-enhancing) foods are quite elaborate, from many cultures. However, most of them have come to a grinding halt due to modern chemicals and GMO's which have diminished the quality of foods that were once so potent libido-boosters. But you can still seek out good quality. Thus you have the popularity of pills and such.
Prior to the modern age, men were uncontrollably potent to the point that it created cultural problems in marriage and society. But libido boosters always existed to compensate for hard manual labor and fatigue or for extra-marital affairs.
Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, known for his development of Kellogg's Corn Flakes, in his Battle Creek Michigan Sanitarium fed his patients his new product of pressed corn flakes as an "anaphrodisiac " (a substance to "REDUCE" libido) in his attempt to calm down the prolific uncontrollable sex life of the American male.
But nowadays, men and women are nearing closer to the androgynous state. Even women have big problems getting pregnant because of the changes in that once robust health that they once possessed. Many believed that prolific fertility was a sign of health in both sexes.
Hence, the new age of pills like V and C and L. (interesting to note that these impotence drugs were by prescription only and never meant as an adjunct to sex for already healthy men. Nowadays, young men take them. Very sad)
So, forgetting the pills which you renounce from either the pharmaceutical or herbal side, possibly a few tasty foods to keep you very strong are in order.
One that comes to mind is organic hummus. The chick pea (garbanzo bean) has always been reputed as a potency food. Black beans and most beans (try to find organic non-radiated) but avoiding soy beans which are extremely hard on digestion and avoid tofu but miso renders them more bioavailable. Dried Fava beans reign supreme.
Oatmeal, buckwheat (kasha, soba noodles) brown rice, pomegranate, (and its juice) oysters (unbelievably high in zinc, a precursor to testosterone) and clams, anchovies, quail eggs. (small speckled eggs sold in most Asian food marts) Most seeds, grains, nuts and beans which are usually high in minerals and B vitamins. Especially walnuts. You can dry-roast the raw nuts and seeds just a bit to make them more digestible. Avoid deep-fried and heavily salted bottled and canned nuts and seeds.
If you want to go hog-wild, boil a thick handful of horny goat weed (yin yang huo -- sold in any Asian herb store) in a half gallon of water for about 50 minutes until it reduces to about a quart and drink about 4 ounces before going to bed. Quite potent but will also increase the weight of the prostate as it begins to fill with huge amounts of hormones and sexual fluids, so be careful or avoid this extreme herb. (not for the faint of heart) But in reality it is as common as any wild weed or vegetable -- not rare at all. Pure Peruvian mountain maca powder is very potent and sweet to taste added to your oatmeal. Maca is just a dried root vegetable resembling turnip root.
Painkillers, alcohol, hydrocodone, morphine, heroin, cocaine, opioids will all act as libido suppressants. Avoid them if you want to get down.