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Testosterone is the primary androgen — or male hormone — in your body. Low testosterone affects up to 39 percent of adult men in the US over the age of 45, and becomes increasingly prevalent ...
Hormone-related health conditions, like polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) and hypothyroidism, as well as life seasons like menopause, can lead to hormonal changes that make losing weight more ...
Fortunately, the effects of obesity on male fertility can be reversed, with either weight loss or testosterone therapy. [ 33 ] Losing weight has been shown to yield numerous beneficial results; doing so can alter misaligned BMI statuses, and can correct metabolic disturbances associated with increased weight, ultimately decreasing the amount of ...
Men with low serum testosterone levels should have other hormones checked, particularly luteinizing hormone to help determine why their testosterone levels are low and help choose the most appropriate treatment (most notably, testosterone is usually not appropriate for secondary or tertiary forms of male hypogonadism, in which the LH levels are ...
In 2020, a study that evaluated the effects of testosterone therapy in men with testosterone deficiency and varying degrees of weight (normal weight, overweight, and obesity) on anthropometric and metabolic parameters found that long-term testosterone undecanoate therapy in hypogonadal men, regardless of their weight at the start of the study ...
In fact, a new systematic review and meta-analysis published online on May 13, 2024, in Annals of Internal Medicine reports that having low levels of testosterone might affect men’s risk for ...
As of 2016, the International Society for the Study of the Aging Male defines late-onset hypogonadism as a series of symptoms in older adults related to testosterone deficiency that combines features of both primary and secondary hypogonadism; the European Male Aging Study (a prospective study of ~3000 men) [10] defined the condition by the presence of at least three sexual symptoms (e.g ...
A 2022 analysis published in the journal Nutrition and Health found that high-protein and low-carb diets decreased testosterone by 37 percent. A low-carb, moderate-protein diet didn’t show ...