Sexual health-Interests have grown even higher than it was published shortly after a piece of Sullivan, Androgel introduced to the market. (Injections in the treatment of painful Sullivan will be used, He describes the three-inch needle and as a result of leakage of blood) produce a wild and unpredictable levels of hormones (big explosion shortly after the injection, insufficient levels) a few days later. But Androgel, Users ice cream with androgens (a class of steroid hormones on the testosterone is one) can be absorbed through the skin. Androgel offers no-fuss-no need simple everyday applications which produce more consistent blood levels of drugs.
Cover Story during the log on the further development led to a lively spot in the media.
Testosterone is the subject of controversy in recent years, partly due April cover story in The New York Times Magazine.By Andrew Sullivan praised the effect of hormone treatment for his HIV-induced defects. Referring queues libido, confidence and energy, as a result,He recalls his injections of testosterone as a "meeting every two weeks with a syringe full of manhood."
Hot, hot hormones.
This Buzz About Testosterone supplementation caused a critical problem, especially among men of a certain age: where guys who are not more young people for it to be?
History of history
Unfortunately, the optimistic reports of testosterone, some important information, such as, for example, are omitted, a painful injection.I do not think they are very simple question: What do most men extra testosterone in some typical reduction of sexuality as they age backwards? Interestingly, the answer is no. Extra testosterone can definitely improve the lives of people with very low testosterone levels due to illness – about 5% of normal, due to harsh conditions, such as the removal of pituitary tumors, removal of the testicles (in the case of testicular cancer, for example), or the Sullivan case of HIV. In these cases the reduction will have effect on libido.
If a man’s testosterone levels, increasing them with increased doses of the hormone would be expected to normalize their behavior again. Sullivan’s experience was with some sound effects in the placebo-raised – hardly possible he raises in his work. But most people simply do not have to Androgel. Here’s why.
Testosterone and Aging Male
The level of testosterone is usually a gradual return to the people in the early Middle Ages. The popular perception and a piece in Sullivan said that this decrease is the basis for the typical decrease in the energy, EDGE, and sexual desire that often accompanies aging. But there is simply no scientific evidence to support a causal relationship between the seen (slow) decline in testosterone levels in normal aging and a negative impact on libido sexual performance or energy level. Furthermore, temporary decrease in testosterone, many people in times of stress (congestion, bad grades for the head), usually do not appear to make any lasting difference libido and performance, either. Behavior drives hormones, but not vice versa For the argument, we assume that the slightest drop in testosterone levels was proportional to the decrease in sexual desire, energy and libido, and at the slightest increase has increased. If this were so, researchers should be able to group of normal, healthy people to study to select assess their level of testosterone, and show that men with higher testosterone levels, libido, sexually active or aggressive. In fact, some studies suggest such a link. But it is a violation: Acting aggressive increase in testosterone levels as well as sex, so that the ratio is due to travel behavior, hormones, and not vice versa. This phenomenon has been discussed in many of the leading texts on this subject. If attempts to control these factors – shame and sex – the overwhelming majority of studies, regardless of people or animals, show that individual differences in testosterone levels within normal limits, especially not predict individual differences in the aggressiveness or sexual acts. My own study of testicular function, social rank, and personality among wild baboons ", was published in the journal Psychoneuroendocrinology, is one of many who found it. Only 15% of the normal Is Enough It is important here is to give Sullivan testosterone, so that its circulating levels to 15% of normal, 100% of normal or 150% of normal, and you will have approximately the same effect in all cases.
The best single review of this issue, "the behavioral effects of androgens in the human body, published in August 1996 in the American Journal of Psychiatry. In a very broad range, testosterone has nearly the same impact on behavior. Click to change key sections of the range (in connection with castration or more diseases) and the physiology and behavior. Push the levels above this range, in connection with the abuse of anabolic steroids, and you usually increases aggression, perhaps libido. But to remain in such a wide range – from 15% to 150% of normal – behavior and libido about the same.
The increase in body weight, but not sex Drive
So that extra testosterone can do? In some studies, including one in October 1992 issue of the journal Clinical Endocrinology Metabolism showed that the increase in testosterone levels increased in older people, weight and lowers cholesterol. Sullivan learned about 20 pounds to get, Currently, more than 400 pounds and squat feels an increase in demand for energy, less nervous than a double espresso, but no less powerful. " However, there was a double-blind studies show that extra testosterone restored "young" sexual performance or libido, vigor and energy. And testosterone, experts agree. Consider the following summary of the last review in July 2000 issue of the journal Geriatrics published: "hormones such as DHEA, human growth hormone, testosterone, and generally decreases with age, but the therapeutic value of [restoring them] for "normal" level of physiological was not supported by controlled clinical studies. "In addition, Williams Textbook of Endocrinology (1998, 9 th edition), especially the" Bible "on the ground, he said:" The reduction of male sexual function with age does not appear to be mediated endocrine. " The increase in body weight, but not sex Drive Continued …
Thus, 50% reduction in testosterone levels in man, as he at the age of 50-bit A20 somewhat unlikely that a large effect on their physiology and behavior. Therefore, something like Androgel this level of 50% to 100% of Boos, probably not a very influence, whether it be. Stress suppresses testosterone, but not all the same? In addition, low secretion of testosterone-induced stress is no reason to take extra testosterone either. All kinds of stress, physical or psychological problems may, secretion of all, to prevent the hormones involved in the complex release of testosterone. Anesthetize someone for surgery, cut into slices of the abdomen with a scalpel, and the level of testosterone begins to decline. The same thing happens to male primates who plunged from a high rank currently in the group hierarchy. The same applies to a person located in a stressful cognitive tasks as a final exam. Or – an example I made a strange pleasure links – a study in the May 1972 Archives of Gener Al Psychiatry found that men in the beginning, a very intense period of training officer in the army suppressed testosterone levels, too. Thus, this reduction in stress conditions seems well-established phenomenon. But most importantly, what are the consequences of this decline in testosterone levels in stress?
Loss of libido or performance? Been reduced aggressiveness? Reduced muscle metabolism? None of the above, almost certainly. At lower levels of testosterone during stress, even with serious, chronic stress, just not dramatic enough to produce these side effects. Thus, people should not say much about the consequences of fear or a traffic jam or temporary restrictions on their testosterone. The problem is not that the decline in testosterone levels of stress.
It must be done to maintain the penis. But that is another topic for another story.