With that being said, a fair warning is in order: attempting to tinker with your hormones (or your libido) by introducing any kind of synthetic product (pharmaceutical or readily available “natural supplements”—and I use the term natural in the loosest sense—is a recipe for disaster.

Here’s why: your body maintains a very precise hormonal balance that is based on thousands of different factors that are not yet fully understood by science. When you start arbitrarily inserting actual hormonal molecules into your system by taking a drug or synthetic supplement, it totally alters that delicate balance and throws your entire body out of whack (and with the endocrine system, that includes your mental and emotional balance as well). Furthermore, your body has built in homeostasis mechanisms—self-regulating feedback loops that will shut down natural production of hormones if one gets too far out of normal range.