Testosterone Replacement Therapy

Hormone levels naturally decline as we become older. When your body’s hormone levels are low, you’ll have trouble maintaining your health. The good news is that, in the vast majority of cases, hormone imbalances and losses can be reversed. Hormones have a big impact on how we feel and how we perform. Many of the adverse consequences that begin to develop as we age can be reversed by replenishing hormones to a healthy level.

Research

Key points on testosterone therapy from Dr. Abraham Morgentaler, leading testosterone expert and urologist from Harvard Medical School.

• Many people have long believed that levels decline as a natural consequence of advancing age, and that therefore; there is nothing we can or should do about it…That’s like telling a middle-aged person that since vision typically deteriorates with age, there’s no point in prescribing glasses—or that we shouldn’t treat atherosclerosis to prevent heart attacks, because it, too, is an age-related phenomenon. It just doesn’t make sense!
• Millions of men needlessly suffer from low sex drive, loss of energy, and diminished enthusiasm for life—because of low levels of the male hormone testosterone.
• Testosterone is more than a ‘male sex hormone.’ It is an important contributor to the robust metabolic functioning of multiple bodily systems. Testosterone stimulates and maintains muscle and bone growth. For example—many men don’t realize that low T puts them at increased risk for osteoporosis. It also stimulates red blood cell production, helping to prevent anemia. Testosterone levels are reduced in type 2 diabetes and metabolic syndrome; therapy with testosterone in these conditions can reduce LDL cholesterol, blood sugar, glycated hemoglobin, and insulin resistance.
• Men with low T die earlier than those with normal T. That alone is ample reason to take notice.

  For more information you can read Dr. Morgentaler’s book “Testosterone for Life”.