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1. Is your sexual appetite not as big as it used to be?
2. Are you low on energy?
3. Has your strength and/or endurance decreased at the gym?
4. Are you not as tall as you used to be?
5. Do you "enjoy life" less than you once did?
6. Are you sad and/or grumpy?
7. Are your erections disappointing because they aren't as strong?
8. Do you lack the energy to play sports?
9. Are you falling asleep after dinner?
10. Has there been a recent deterioration in your work performance?
If you answer "yes" to questions one or seven
and/or "yes" to any three others, you may have testosterone
deficiency and should see a physician. Source: Surviving
Male Menopause: A guide for women and men by Jed
Diamond
Let's Hear it for Testosterone!
Hill, Aubrey, The Testosterone Solution: Increase your
energy and vigor with male hormone therapy, Prima Publishing,
www.primapubilshing.com
1997
Shippen, Eugene & Fryer, William, The Testosterone
Syndrome: The critical factor for energy, health &
sexuality-reversing the male menopause, M. Evans
& Co, 1998Newsbytes
Alcohol's Effects On Testosterone
Even though testosterone is often referred to as a 'male sex
hormone,' it is in actuality common to both genders of animals and
humans. The overwhelming majority of research conducted in the past
25 years in both animals and humans has found that alcohol inhibits
testosterone secretion. However, a new study in the January issue of
Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research has found that
acute administration of alcohol can induce a rapid increase in plasma
and brain concentrations of testosterone in some rodents.
Source: Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental
Research, www.intelihealth.com/IH/ihtIH/EMIHC000/333/333/360074.html
Testosterone Levels in Older Men Predict
Cognitive Status
Dr. Scott D. Moffat and colleagues analyzed data on 407 volunteers from the Baltimore Longitudinal Study, who were between the ages of 51 and 91 at baseline and were followed for 10 years.
Subjects performed neuropsychological tests of verbal and visual memory, mental status, visuomotor scanning and attention, verbal knowledge/language, visuospatial ability and symptoms of depression. Serum testosterone and free testosterone levels were measured contemporaneously.
The higher the free testosterone index, the better the cognitive functioning, the researchers report. "Men classified as hypogonadal had significantly lower scores on measures of memory and visuospatial performance and a faster rate of decline in visual memory," Dr. Moffat and colleagues found.
They conclude that "the progressive physiological decline in
testosterone secretion in aging men contributes to selective losses
in cognitive functions that may be reversed at least in part by
testosterone supplementation." Whether such testosterone
administration is safe would require larger scale investigations.
Source: J Clin Endocrinol Metab
2002:87;5001-5007, www.medscape.com/viewarticle/447152?mpid=8241 (no
longer available at the original source.)
Single Men Testosterone Driven
Testosterone test offers clue to a man's
fidelity
In birds, low levels of the male hormone encourage fidelity while higher levels mean they are more likely to play the field. The same could be true for humans.
Scientists at Harvard University, in America, have found that married men who spend time with their family have lower testosterone levels than bachelors. This could be nature's way of encouraging men with families not to be unfaithful, said the scientists.
When Peter Gray, an anthropologist, and his colleagues measured testosterone in 58 men they found that levels dropped after a natural peak in the morning. But the decrease was more prominent in the married men than in bachelors.
"And fathers seem to show an even more dramatic difference from unmarried men," Mr Gray told New Scientist magazine. So devoted fathers, who are less likely to stray, probably have lower testosterone levels.
Source: Sarah Womack, Social Affairs Correspondent
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/05/23/wtesto23.xml&sSheet=/news/2002/05/23/ixworld.html
(no longer available at the original source.)
Testosterone May Reduce Risk Of Stroke
In Men; Estrogen Levels Not Related To Stroke
Testosterone Aids Older Men's Brains
Men Behaving Sadly? It Might be the
Hormones
Lack of testosterone leaves men bad-tempered, emotional, depressed and suffering from Irritable Male Syndrome, scientist Gerald Lincoln told BBC radio's Today program Thursday.
"It has an amusing side because we realize the frailties of men and how hormones do affect their behavior. But there is a serious side in that men's behavior can be compromised by their hormone state," he said.
Unlike women's hormonal state which moves in cycles, it is extreme circumstances, like accidents or serious illness, which trigger slides in men's hormonal levels, said Lincoln, who works at Edinburgh's Human Reproductive Sciences Unit.
But a shot of testosterone can make it all better with previously withdrawn men showing heightened energy, motivation and sex drive, he added.
It did not however solve the age-old problem of traditional male inability to wash the dishes.
The link between male irritability and testosterone was discussed originally in science journal Reproduction, Fertility and Development.
Source:
story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl==story&cid=W3&u==/nm/20020228/od_nm/testosterone_dc_1
(no longer available at the original source.)
Testosterone
Implants Effective Contraception for Men
'Testosterone revolution' urged for
older men
Try testosterone when you're over the
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