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Once upon a time there was a 20year old guy, energetic, confident, athletic ready to take on the world. Nothing to worry about and you feel absolutely bullet proof.
Roll the tape on 20 - 40 years.
You now have low energy levels, always tired, low libido and performance, feel “wimpy” and more than likely have an increased girth and chest measurement. You feel down at times and don’t bounce back like before.
Does this sound at all familiar?
We’ve heard so much about male health and medicine, take all these drugs. Diets….eat like a rabbit, cut out meat, cut out butter & eggs, cut the coffee. Work out harder, jog miles a day… quit alcohol, quit this, and quit that. Accept that we’re getting older, sagging, going to have prostate and heart problems… It’s enough to drive you to the 19th.
One of the most important issues in male health is testosterone. Fact is that your testosterone drops after the age of 30. By the age of 40 the levels plummet by 1% or more per year. Your energy levels drop, mental acuity drops, libido drops, your sexual function drops, it gets increasingly more difficult to produce muscle and fat naturally starts to accumulate around your middle.
But wait there’s more. As a man ages his testosterone decreases and his estrogen increases, in part due to the conversion of testosterone into estrogen. In one recent study it found that estrogen levels in an average 54 year old man are higher than those of an average 59 year old woman.
To make you feel even better, this low level of testosterone compounds itself. It is more likely that you will be fat. Studies also show that fat cells generate the aromatase enzyme that converts testosterone into estrogen. We get the opposite of what we want, decreased testosterone and increased estrogen.
Treatment
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