Understanding the "Law" of Testosterone Supply and Demand
UPDATE 12-25-17 While we are no longer sure that whatever sways via personality factors is truly "testosterone" itself, the suggestions in this thread are still sound ones and since most people do still believe in testosterone for swaying (high T = blue, low T = pink) it's still a worthwhile thread to read.
For the definitive thread on personality factors and swaying please read this. http://genderdreaming.com/forum/gend...ypothesis.html
The production of testosterone is an unbelievably complicated process described here: Testosterone - Wikipedia :omg: Still with me? :rolleyes: The good news is, we don't have to understand all that gobbeldygook to use testosterone (or lack thereof) to our advantage when swaying.
Nutshell version - cholesterol Cholesterol - Wikipedia is the building block of ALL steroid hormones. Your body makes most of its cholesterol and gets a smaller amount via diet (only 10-15% of your cholesterol comes through diet). You DON'T need to eat gargantuan amounts of cholesterol to have plenty of the stuff, your body makes it out of saturated fats and even animal protein itself. In turn, it uses that cholesterol that it made, to build ALL your hormones, progesterone, testosterone, and estrogen alike.
Consequently, you don't have to eat testosterone-laden foods to make testosterone or to have all boys. Some swaying diets have red meat listed as boy-friendly and chicken and eggs listed as girl-friendly, because red meat has testosterone and chicken and eggs have progesterone, but that doesn't matter. Your body MAKES cholesterol out of the saturated fats in ALL meats, eggs, saturated plant fats like coconut, and full-fat dairy foods, and then turns that cholesterol into testosterone, estrogen, and progesterone.
If your body decides to make less testosterone/estrogen and more progesterone, it's not because you're EATING less testosterone and more progesterone, it's because of other cues in your body that send the signal to your body to make less testosterone and more progesterone. In fact, your body produces progesterone BEFORE it makes testosterone, and testosterone is later turned into estrogen. The three are all part of the same process. You cannot divorce the three hormones and treat them in such a simple manner as, "More testosterone and estrogen = boys, more progesterone = girls" because SOMETHING is causing your body to produce these different levels of hormones.
That SOMETHING is the key to gender swaying.
When I talk about "testosterone supply and demand", what I'm really saying is that there are (at least) two variables in the equation. One is the amount of raw materials you have available to make testosterone (or whatever it is that is swaying via personality factors) with. So we try and control this amount, firstly through diet. For blue swayers, by eating more saturated fats that raise the so-called "bad" cholesterol and also healthy fats that raise the so-called "good" cholesterol, in addition to other various nutrients that help with the process. For pink swayers, we eat less fat and protein overall and less of the nutrients that are proven to help your body manufacture testosterone (like Vitamins A and D, among others.)
We also take supplements that raise or lower the amount of testosterone circulating in our bodies, raise or lower the amount of cholesterol that our body turns into testosterone (you can have both high cholesterol and low testosterone if your body is not getting the "signal" to produce testosterone), and even raise or lower the amount of testosterone that our bodies make out of whatever raw materials are available (some foods that lower cholesterol actually raise testosterone, like oats).
UPDATE - PLEASE do not go online and try to take every herb ever said to raise or lower testosterone. Firstly because we don't even know that testosterone is even doing anything!! And secondly because all those herbs have risks and side effects that may make it harder or impossible for you to get and stay pregnant, may have risks and side effects that are harmful to you or an unborn baby, and additionally may even have side effects that end up affecting your sway negatively. Since we do not even know that testosterone is even swaying, it is entirely possible to take an herb that has been rumored to "raise or lower testosterone" only to have it do some other thing that no one yet understands that undermines your sway via some other mechanism entirely!
But all this is to no avail if we do not address the second half of the equation - DEMAND. Pink swayers, if we do not convince our bodies that we need less testosterone in order to survive, it will carry on producing testosterone using whatever it can scrounge up. And blue swayers, if our bodies don't "think" they need testosterone, and in some instances may even survive better without it, it will salvage its energy for other things and continue on with less testosterone (or whatever it is that is really swaying via the personality factors).
Our bodies produce testosterone for SURVIVAL. In nature, dominant animals (both physically and socially dominant) face constant challenges to their authority and need that testosterone to maintain their physical and social superiority and take on challengers. Submissive animals have a much better chance of survival if they are non-confrontational and so their testosterone levels tend to drop if they decline challenges, or lose.
It isn't hard to see how this translates into modern-day life. If you're always taking on challenges, both mental and physical, that you enjoy, and you tend to succeed at them, your testosterone levels are probably higher than another person who feels doomed to fail at every endeavor, or who has to struggle and work constantly just to get by, or has been put down and persecuted a lot in life. (This does NOT mean that people with lower T levels are victims or failures, there are many paths to low testosterone.)
Taking it a step further to swaying...
(Note - No one needs to take offense at any of this, it's meant to be general observations and conjecture and not extrapolate to every person. Keep in mind that there are many factors that sway such as smoking and skipping breakfast, which have NOTHING to do with testosterone or dominance whatsoever.)
A lot of boy-moms (aka pink swayers) have tended to be very much go-getters with a tendency to get SUPERobsessed with the details of everything in life, and having the "perfect" sway is just another thing to obsess over. I have seen some boy-moms even say point blank that the reason their GD was so bad is because getting a daughter was the only thing in life that they hadn't "accomplished" and they view swaying as a challenge to be overcome and a prize to be won.
Some of the blue swayers, on the other hand, have been more easily overwhelmed by swaying and feel that they literally CAN'T conceive a baby boy because something is wrong with them or they are being punished in some way. I have also noticed (and this is just a generalization and in no way meant to be offensive to anyone at all) that ~some~ of the girl-moms desperately want sons not for themselves, but for others - their husbands, fathers, or society at large. Not having a son is something that they equate with letting other people down, of being a disappointment to the people they care about.
Going back to the idea of an equation, it is GREAT for our sway if we do everything we can to increase or limit the supply of raw materials for our body to manufacture into testosterone. But unless we address the demand aspect and work on changing our habits and attitudes as well, our body may simply continue on as it was. Swaying can even aggravate this by making blue swayers feel terribly pressured and discouraged and lowering their testosterone, or making pink swayers focus too much on details and obsessing over every aspect of their sway and raising their levels.
Supply + Demand = testosterone. Even if your supply drops to ZERO - which is impossible because your body will do ANYTHING to keep you alive, even down to making testosterone out of your last cubic centimeter of body fat - if your body senses that you need testosterone, it will continue making it. And even if you have sky high cholesterol, if your body thinks that high testosterone will reduce your overall odds of survival (animals who are physically less able to defend themselves are ill-suited to getting into a lot of fights or even just asserting themselves socially)it will not use that cholesterol to raise your testosterone levels. It will save it for a rainy day when it's needed.
Here are some non-diet, non-supplement ways of increasing demand and raising your testosterone levels for blue swayers -
Weight training and moderate exercise (they emulate taking on and overcoming physical challenges) - possibly even something that involves fighting like kickboxing or TaeBo,
Getting enough sleep
Taking on and overcoming challenges (these don't have to be big things, even something small like driving to a new part of town or playing board games with your kids or video games where you're competing against yourself or the computer can help)
Putting yourself in a position of authority over others can help to raise your testosterone levels.
Above all, try to focus on the positive...you CAN conceive a son and if swaying begins to feel overwhelming and undoable to you, take a break and regroup.
Here are some ways of decreasing demand and lowering your testosterone levels for pink swayers -
Either NO exercise or extreme exercise, minimum 60 minutes a day, 6-7 days a week (makes your body think you're either keeping your head down and avoid notice, or you're having to work very hard just to survive)
Getting less sleep than normal
Avoiding things like social media and video games if you tend to be very competitive, particularly if you were using these things when you got your boys
Walking away from arguments and declining challenges that you would ordinarily take on
Above all, you must NOT get obsessed over swaying. If you know you're prone to that kind of thinking, do not include any of the more nitpicky swaying aspects like timing and pH that take a lot of constant monitoring and tracking, because it just keeps it in the forefront of your mind constantly. Please read the following: http://genderdreaming.com/forum/ttc-...aycession.html
Aside from sheer bad luck, testosterone levels are the number one reason why good sways fail. It's not enough just to affect your supply, you must also address demand, in order for your sway to succeed.
