Hello guys, Veeky Forums and /pol/ have been blowing up about this new onion thing, claiming that onions boost testosterone 300% in mice (with studies backing this up), and also believing it may be the same for humans. Some have also claimed it can cure baldness.
>ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19384830 interesting, would have to look at how much they actually gave them in comparison. 1g per rat per day might be an extreme unarchivable goal. n=10 per group. was done with 0.5g / rat and 1g/rat
well, a biologyst should have a look at that.
Jacob Jenkins
> ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19384830 Not irrelevant, but also attributes effects to antioxidants, benefit is not specific to onions.
sid.ir/En/Journal/ViewPaper.aspx?FID=50003620140308 Iranian study investigates effect of onion extract on mouse testosterone levels. Shows beneficial effect but unable to determine mechansim, correlates with but does not prove that it's just the antioxident capability.
sid.ir/En/Journal/ViewPaper.aspx?FID=50003620140308 Onion extract can reverse the effects of AlCl3 induced reproductive dysfunction in rats. However, the mechanism of damage by Al is oxidative and onion extract is absolutely helping as a concentrated antioxidant supplement.
journals.viamedica.pl/folia_morphologica/article/view/15945 Onion extract was proven to be capable of increasing sperm motility, viability, and concentration as well as increasing serum total testosterone. However, the treatment dose was 5 g/kg onion juice (not extract).
tl;dr Veeky Forums discovers antioxidants are good for test > antioxidants are already good for fucking everything
Josiah Parker
> ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3493836/ Onion extract can reverse the effects of AlCl3 induced reproductive dysfunction in rats. However, the mechanism of damage by Al is oxidative and onion extract is absolutely helping as a concentrated antioxidant supplement.
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Carter Richardson
?! YOU LIARS , I TALKED ABOUT ONION " MUSHROOMS " THE OTHER NIGHT , YOU FUCKING LIARS , SCIENCE NEVER SAVED ANYONE YOU SLUGS CONSIDERING YOURSELVES HUMAN , READ THE HEART OF " DARKNESS " TRULY THE SPIRIT OF THE CONGO DARK , AND REMEMBER THE LIONS IN THE AFRICAN PLAINS ARE ON ' REST-MODE ' THEY ARE EVEN WORSE , WHEN THE SCIENTISTS IN THE CONGO FLIP THE SWITCHES , THE CONGO IS THE SCIENTIST ATHEIST LAND , THEY ARE STUCK IN THEIR OWN DESTRUCTION , GROWING DRUG ROCKS TO EAT , CRACKS OF THE GLOBES SPICES , LIKE ANIMALS , NEVER A HUMAN , FORGOT THEIR ONLY FRIEND , THE DIVINE INFINITE UNITY , THE DIFINITY , THE DELTA-DIFINITY , Θε Δελτα-Διφινιτυ , GROW UP YOU ATHEIST LIARS EVERYONE IS ROYALTY WITH AN AREA OF THEIR OWN YOU IMPATIENT BABIES DEHUMANIZING OTHERS FOR YOUR OWN LIES !!
Matthew Sanchez
high testosterone IS NOT a desirable thing
Robert Diaz
> n = 30 > p < 0.05 hmmm I wonder what this means............. i really wonder....
William Evans
unless you're female, why would it not be desirable?
Grayson Perry
overall risk of death radically increases risk of basically all diseases increases, including cancer and heart disease high risk of balding and the 'high testosterone = alpha male' thing is a myth, it's way more complicated than just increasing testosterone actually most of bodybuilders and athletes have average or below average testosterone, read it up
Michael Baker
state your sources
Jonathan Peterson
Even if user gave sources, I probably wouldn't trust them because I would bet that risk of death is calculated using some abstracted, non-rigid metric by including risk of death due to high-risk behaviour, which they always fucking do.
Just like those infographics that cite alcohol as being more lethal than heroin just because of things like drunk driving statistics. Does that make it more lethal? In an abstracted (read: retarded) kind of way. It shouldn't imply I'm safer shooting up heroin in my own house than I am having a beer.
Do you know who has a lot of sex? Blacks Do you know what's important to keep a race of people propagating? Sex
Chase Hall
>race No such thing.
Robert Torres
Meanwhile the actual list of health problems caused by low testosterone is 3 times as big.
Brandon Baker
>wanting to have sex get out normie
Andrew Thomas
None of your sources even mentions blacks and the last one portrays high IQ people as sexless virgins/ prostitute enablers.
Also high testosterone in blacks could be attributed to lower obesity (female obesity in blacks skews the average) and average median age being much younger in comparison due to lower average life span.
Henry Wright
>he last one portrays high IQ people as sexless virgins/ prostitute enablers it doesn't portray anything brainlet, it just says people with high IQ are less likely to have sex so?
Landon Smith
Weak bait
Liam Stewart
abstract says 4 g/kg onion juice which seems like an achievable goal.
Dominic Moore
small ample size doesn't matter if the effect size is big enough. also in an experiment like this, the choice of rat line matters FAR more than the number of rats
>Another idea, consistent with popular media portrayals of geeks and nerds (males at least), is that intelligent people actually want to have sex, but are simply less likely or unable to obtain willing partners because they are disproportionately viewed as unattractive or undesirable as partners.
>Half Sigma also showed that the smartest men in the GSS (approx. IQ >120) were also more likely to visit a prostitute. (Hardly indicative of cautiousness) This may suggest intelligent men are less able to find willing sex partners. Are smart men less attractive to women? Perhaps in some ways. For instance HS found that smart men were less likely to be athletic, and this paper shows, unathletic men and women have fewer sex partners. Athletic men, with more willing sexual partners are also less likely to visit a prostitute. Athletic activity gives men more masculine bodies, which are more attractive to women
Dominic Fisher
4channers are'nt nearly smart enough to be on this level, though. No matter how much you virgins losers pretend, you're the way you are because you made yourselves like it (fat, virgins, 0 social skills), not because you're smart.
Aiden Flores
>popular media portrayals >therefore this paper portrayals and you dare calling me retard?
Benjamin Lewis
What does any of that have to do with the fact that I had to correct you concerning the content of the link above?
Anthony Wood
Not the same guy you were talking to, fat faggot.
Dylan Campbell
Based on your post it seems you're trying to get across that you're a fat virgin loser with 0 social skill, lacking intelligence and that you assume that goes for all of us.
Caleb Gomez
This study was cited in the link making those assertions user.
>actually most of bodybuilders and athletes have average or below average testosterone probably because they've got lower natural testosterone production due to steroid use and they're usually being tested while off their cycle
Gavin Hughes
>Hello guys, Veeky Forums and /pol/ have been blowing up about this new onion thing I don't believe you. this knowledge of onions is old as fuck on Veeky Forums
Ayden Morales
>onions boost testosterone 300% in mice Great. So now you're high test AND stink like fucking onions.
Samuel Allen
Depends on the kind of onion. A lot are really nasty and just have that funky sweaty feet smell, but I could eat a vidalia onion like a fucking apple. t. North Georgian
Connor Reed
I haven't seen projection this blatant in a while.
Austin Young
I eat 1 or more onions every week and I don't see myself being so //Veeky Forums// and ripped.
Cooper Reyes
Maybe you ought to go to the gym after working out at the library.
Nathan Howard
Is there a way to ingest onion juice without increasing test?
Cameron Bell
I love onions
Bentley Reyes
>your brain on pop-sci
Connor Brooks
Boil it, it kills the enzymes.
Jeremiah Barnes
>tfw actually ate 1-2 onions a day in high school >tfw had a hairless, feminine body until my senior year >tfw onion breath was the reason i couldn't get laid (3 women directly told me this) >tfw onions are now an """alpha male""" meme
Robert Clark
Why did you eat so many onions?
Easton Foster
for all idiots who's suffering from onion juice, make a french onion soup, its even tasty.
Evan Scott
This is known as a shill post.
People don't eat raw onions for no reason.
Leo Cox
A shill post from the onion lobby? What the fuck
Jaxson Reed
(((they))) don't want us to have high test, why else would there be so many anti-onion shills. If it wasn't a threat to (((their))) agenda, they wouldn't work full force into fudding us
Jayden Stewart
also, by "fudding" I meant "fud" which is an acronym for "fear, uncertainty and doubt".
Austin Butler
congrats on the shittiest troll I have read all week
Nicholas Thompson
Doubt that it works. The "article" referenced in the picture states that it may decrease free radicals which leads to increased testosterone production. Even if you tried to consume large amounts of onion juice your body would just piss it out.
Not too familiar with the testosterone production pathway, but unless you're able to overstimulate the GPCRs you probably won't see an increase. The article is too vague about the mechanism of action. It doesn't even reference the science article it is basing its claims on. Then its an experiments on rodents, which may not be relevant for humans.
Jaxon Diaz
I like most vegetables, and onions go great in a stir-fry or soup. Sometimes I'd do homemade onion rings, too.
They weren't raw (usually). Sometime's I'd just cut one into cross-sections and dip them in a mix of salad dressing and crumbled-up croutons, but that was when I was feeling lazy.
Point is, onions don't magically make you a big boy. You gotta wait for puberty to run its course.
Sebastian Jones
>Eat onions and become alpha male >Smell like onions and get no pussy
This world is a cruel joke.
Jacob Cox
Would still work in India
Lucas Bailey
t. soyboy
Matthew Bell
Oh well. At least it's a meme encouraging people to eat a healthy food for once, unlike the "sips" bullshit, and all of the people on Veeky Forums who roid.
Carter Nelson
>measure test in blood >eat onions for a month >measure it again
seems like something doable to humor an 8 year old study with no follow-up, someone on Veeky Forums should give it a go
Matthew Clark
onion breath probably smells like the top of mt. fucking everest compared to some of the olfactory horrors one could encounter in india
Joseph Hill
People are already doing it.
Zachary King
First time I've seen sci, fit, pol and biz in one post.
Luke Nguyen
3/8. 2 points awarded to Gryffindor for novel idea and 1 point for making me reply. Now kill yourself.
Michael Harris
>boost testosterone Not a good thing if you're at healthy levels. Also, excessive testosterone will make you bald, lol.
Liam Bell
Only retards fall for the low test meme.
Isaiah Campbell
>people don't believe me >they must be controlled by da joos