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New Findings, New Thoughts
A VIEW ON TESTOSTERONE DEFICIENCY
Do our bodies really want to be without sex hormones?
Like the thyroid and adrenal glands, the ovaries and testes are controlled by the pituitary.
This gland sits at the base of the brain, connected to it, doing its bidding. Among many other functions, the pituitary
hormones FSH and LH stimulate our ovaries and testes, instructing them as to how much hormone to secrete.
All men and women reach a point in their lives when these sex glands stop
producing enough hormone to keep them as strong and vital as they once were. Women begin to lose their strength, energy,
and sexuality (and often their good mood) from falling testosterone levels about ten years before the loss of estrogen and
progesterone brings on their menopause. The term “male menopause” has been used to describe the loss of testosterone secretion
by the testes. This failure commonly begins in the forties, sometimes in the thirties or even the twenties, and almost
always by the sixties.
The loss of these hormones, which are responsible for our bone, muscle, and heart strength, for our energy, vigor,
mental sharpness, and sexuality, is certainly “normal” and “natural”. But are the consequences of the loss desirable?
Remember, nothing is more “normal” and “natural” than disease and death.
How do we (our brains) react when these vital hormones begin to fade away?
(There is nothing more “us” than our brains.) Do we ignore this loss? Do we accept the effective death of our
ovaries or testes without bothering to try to goad them into functioning again? Hardly. We (our brains) greatly
increase the amount of the FSH and LH stimulating hormones in our blood, as much as six times more than the highest
levels that existed during our younger adult lives. The pituitary gland pours them out, as if desperate to re-awaken
our failing glands and spur them to produce adequate amounts of hormone. The reality is that it’s a survival reflex,
because the loss of these hormones begins the process of physical and mental deterioration - the beginning of dying.
There is much more about the many adverse consequences of the disease of testosterone deficiency,
such as chronic
fatigue, loss of sexuality,
diabetes, heart failure, vascular disease, osteoporosis, among many others, on this website.
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