Study: Sunbathing Boosts the Testosterone Level in Men

Sunbathing enhances the male sex drive and increase testosterone level, exposes the study published by the Austrian Medical University of Graz.

Researchers at the university revealed that men having more vitamin D in their blood also had more testosterone than other men. Since the sunlight is the major source of vitamin D to the body, around 90% of this specific vitamin is supplied by sunlight while the remaining 10% may be consumed through vitamin D supplements, meat, and oily fish. The increase in Vitamin D also led to a drastic increase in testosterone level concluded the researchers.

This study showed that men receiving sunlight for an hour increased their testosterone to around 69% more. Therefore, men with minimum of 30 monograms of vitamin D in blood have significantly higher levels of testosterone than those who have low testosterone.

It may however take some time for doctors to realize that sunbathing may solve many testosterone related problems for problems like erectile dysfunction and low libidos without having to suggest testosterone therapy to the patient. Meanwhile, you grab your beach suit and go get some sun!