Low Testosterone Causes and Natural Treatments

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Many aging men have issues with low testosterone. Here is information on the causes, and what can be done naturally to raise testosterone...

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A number of factors can lead to reduced testosterone production, such as drug side effects and testicular damage.

But those reasons are far outpaced, especially among older men, by what is coming to be known as andropause (also called late-onset hypogonadism), the decline in testosterone that often occurs with age.

In one study of 534 men between the ages of 40 and 79, more than a quarter had hormone levels low enough to fit this description (Korean Journal of Urology 9/13).

The term “andropause” is modeled after menopause, the cessation of mentrual periods (and ability to have children) experienced by women at midlife. Men in andropause retain their fertility, although sperm production and quality often decrease.

Another difference is that menopause has been an open topic of discussion for decades, while low testosterone in older men is only starting to come to general attention.

“Men are long overdue for their own exploration into this territory because the changes that we experience are just as profound, just as life altering and just as pervasive as those experienced by women,” says Stephen Harrod Buhner, author of numerous books on plant-based medicine including The Natural Testosterone Plan (Healing Arts).

The symptoms associated with andropause are so varied because male hormones play so many roles within the body. “Everyone knows that testosterone makes a man a man,” says Buhner, who explains that this hormone is what turns a fetus into a baby boy and a boy into an adult male with bigger muscles, a deeper voice and increased body and facial hair.

Total testosterone levels, however, can be misleading. Most of the body’s supply is bound to protein, leaving only 1% to 3% as free testosterone; this free version is what declines as men get older.

What’s more, all men carry small amounts of estrogen, the primary female hormone, in the form of estradiol (just as all women’s bodies contain some testosterone). “If too much testosterone is converted to estradiol, the androgen/estrogen balance is significantly altered and this can have tremendous impacts on how we feel as men,” Buhner says.

Full article here:
http://energytimes.com/pages/features/0314/lowt.html

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test. levels start to decrease soon after age 25 in men. women actually have more test. than men, but its protein bound, with less free test. While masculizing features do occur with test. it is only at high doses. sex difference is caused by human chorionic gonadotropin secreted by the womens placenta, and umbilical cord during fetus causing the testis to secrete test. the health benefits of test in men and women are only recently coming to life. they include greater bone density, increased muscle mass, (yes this is good for women too) ability to deal with stress. Lab values are total erroneous. I do not want the test levels of 70 year old, I want them of a 35 year old-- and have them.
"As we grow older the woman wants to put on the pants, and take control of the business, the man wants to take up the broom, clean stuff up and become the janitor" --Carl Jung
 
Thanks for the info, Sea. Personally, I ain't concerned and have accepted growing old gracefully or not. Besides, those 70 year-old men trying to look and act 20 just give me the creeps.
 

The phobia that they have had on cholesterol for year just might be the problem.
All the sex hormones are made of cholesterol. Just look at all the erectile dysfunction in the last 30 years this is a fairly new disorder and at the same time they pushed to lower cholesterol. Cholesterol is so important the body makes it but not enough.
 
rt3 said:
I do not want the test levels of 70 year old, I want them of a 35 year old-- and have them.
"As we grow older the woman wants to put on the pants, and take control of the business, the man wants to take up the broom, clean stuff up and become the janitor" --Carl Jung
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I don't think it's a bad thing to want to increase your testosterone if you're an elderly man, that's why I posted this thread, suggesting some natural ways to do it. Our 61 yr. old friend whose doctor has given him testosterone shots and gels for the past year, now has liver cancer for his quest to be as young and viral as a 35 year old. I'm an older woman, and have no desire to "put on the pants", and my husband has no urges to sweep, clean and become the janitor...as you and Jung seem to think this is a "woman's" lot in life. Jung must be whipped to even make that statement, I wouldn't be quoting him if I were you, unless you really agree. :)
 


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