Health
Is andropause the same as 'male menopause,' and should men worry?
Thanks to information surrounding the menopause, almost everyone knows something about how age affects hormone levels—in women.
Jun 24, 2024
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News tagged with testosterone
Health
Video: How low testosterone can affect men's health
Millions of men live with a testosterone deficiency. If left unchecked, this treatable condition may contribute to serious health problems like osteoporosis and lowered red blood cell production.
Jun 12, 2024
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Sports medicine & Kinesiology
New doping test can reveal more cheating female athletes
Roughly three times as many male athletes are banned for doping as female. A new doctoral thesis from Karolinska Institutet shows that one possible reason for this is that the doping tests in use fail to take account of women's ...
Jun 11, 2024
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Endocrinology & Metabolism
Persons of nonbinary gender may desire lower-dose testosterone treatment than guidelines recommend
Among transgender and gender-diverse adults whose gender identity is nonbinary—not exclusively male or female—and who choose low-dose hormone treatment, most prefer to continue testosterone therapy at lower-than-recommended ...
Jun 3, 2024
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Medications
New male birth control gel takes effect sooner than similar contraceptive methods
A novel male contraceptive gel combining two hormones, segesterone acetate (named Nestorone) and testosterone, suppresses sperm production faster than similar experimental hormone-based methods for male birth control, according ...
Jun 2, 2024
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Study finds potentially treatable factors to improve symptoms in men stopping illicit steroids
Men who illicitly used steroids to boost muscle size and physical performance and have stopped in the past year have impaired sexual function compared with men currently using steroids, according to a study being presented ...
Jun 2, 2024
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Synthetic estrogen associated with increased anxiety-like behaviors in a rat model
The type of estrogen in hormonal birth control may influence anxiety-like behaviors, according to data presented by Abigail Hegwood, M.S., from the Prakapenka Lab at ENDO 2024, the Endocrine Society's annual meeting in Boston, ...
Jun 1, 2024
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Diabetes
Higher blood concentrations of testosterone associated with reduced risk of developing type 2 diabetes in men under 65
Testosterone appears protective against developing type 2 diabetes in men who are overweight or obese and under age 65, but not in men over that age, according to a study presented at ENDO 2024, the Endocrine Society's annual ...
Jun 1, 2024
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Endocrinology & Metabolism
Testosterone therapy: Study suggests it's a safe and effective gender-affirming hormone therapy for trans men
Transgender individuals often face unique challenges in aligning their physical bodies with their true gender identity. Among the various methods employed, gender-affirming hormone therapy (GAHT) stands as a vital means for ...
May 30, 2024
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Oncology & Cancer
Research team identifies a new way to treat prostate cancer
The American Cancer Society estimates there are nearly 300,000 new cases of prostate cancer every year in the U.S., and approximately one in eight men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in their lifetime. Prostate cancer ...
May 22, 2024
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Testosterone
Testosterone is a steroid hormone from the androgen group. In mammals, testosterone is primarily secreted in the testes of males and the ovaries of females, although small amounts are also secreted by the adrenal glands. It is the principal male sex hormone and an anabolic steroid.
In men, testosterone plays a key role in health and well-being as well as preventing osteoporosis. On average, an adult human male body produces about forty to sixty times more testosterone than an adult female body, but females are, from a behavioral perspective (rather than from an anatomical or biological perspective), more sensitive to the hormone. However, the overall ranges for male and female are very wide, such that the ranges actually overlap at the low end and high end respectively.
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