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What's wrong with working out and supplementing your decreasing hormone levels with artificial testosterone? I may be reading your comment in the wrong light,

by bherms 14y ago

What's wrong with working out and supplementing your decreasing hormone levels with artificial testosterone? I may be reading your comment in the wrong light, but I think the research on health benefits here are fascinating. Once you move away from the stupidity of people juicing to get as big as Ronnie Coleman and away from the use of them by people under the age of ~40, hormone replacement is actually pretty great. Women have been taking estrogen for years and it's not frowned upon.

robbiep 14y ago
A few inaccuracies in your comment: Estrogen will induce breast and uterine cancers unless it is given with progesterone. Hardly zero side-effects. It is considered proper to only administer estrogen alone to women with severe symptoms of menopause. For the purpose of contraception, the COCP uses low levels which inhibit further hormone release by acting on the pituitary gland; it effectively simulates the state of pregnancy. Even this has risks especially for women with coagulation disorders. With regard to your comments about men receiving hormone supplementations: the problem here is that testosterone production doesn't actually decrease as you get older. Or at least, falling testosterone seems to be the result of, and not the cause of, age and lifestyle related changes and declines. This result was shared with my med school class by one of the principle investigators of the 2011 study in the links; I apologise for using science daily Links as I don't have access to research journals ATM http://www.webmd.com/healthy-aging/news/20110607/testosterone-decline-not-inevitable-with-age http://www.webmd.com/healthy-aging/news/20110607/testosteron... http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/06/110607121129.htm http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/06/110607121129.ht...
- bherms 14y ago
  Thanks for the information... It's a topic I've only briefly read about on a few occasions, so my knowledge clearly isn't too in depth.

by bherms 14y ago

robbiep 14y ago

A few inaccuracies in your comment: Estrogen will induce breast and uterine cancers unless it is given with progesterone. Hardly zero side-effects. It is considered proper to only administer estrogen alone to women with severe symptoms of menopause. For the purpose of contraception, the COCP uses low levels which inhibit further hormone release by acting on the pituitary gland; it effectively simulates the state of pregnancy. Even this has risks especially for women with coagulation disorders. With regard to your comments about men receiving hormone supplementations: the problem here is that testosterone production doesn't actually decrease as you get older. Or at least, falling testosterone seems to be the result of, and not the cause of, age and lifestyle related changes and declines. This result was shared with my med school class by one of the principle investigators of the 2011 study in the links; I apologise for using science daily Links as I don't have access to research journals ATM http://www.webmd.com/healthy-aging/news/20110607/testosterone-decline-not-inevitable-with-age http://www.webmd.com/healthy-aging/news/20110607/testosteron... http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/06/110607121129.htm http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/06/110607121129.ht...

bherms 14y ago
Thanks for the information... It's a topic I've only briefly read about on a few occasions, so my knowledge clearly isn't too in depth.