What is male hormone substitution therapy?
Male hormone substitution therapy is the restoration of natural body chemicals, such as testosterone, due to the loss or absence of the corresponding amount of male hormones or androgens. Some people were born with too few androgens, and as men age, androgens that keep them young and healthy. The lack of androgen means that the secondary sexual characteristics - such as a reduction in voice, maintain muscle mass and distribution of fat and the indictment of sexual units - will not appear. Hormonal substitutes can be natural, from people or other similar mammals or artificially or synthetically produced by pharmaceutical companies. Some androgens, such as testosterone, can be absorbed in the form of ointment and some need to be injected. Two months after conception, the testicles begins to produce testosterone. Testosterone levels in men are the largest just before they reach their 20 years. At the age of 80, they are half of these levels.
Normal testosterone levels with activated testosterone in men are only half of the actual testosterone levels in the blood, because half or more hormone is bound by globulin -bound gender, naturally occurring chemicals in the blood that increases with age, causing a decrease in testosterone levels. This slow reduction in testosterone production in men who are age is called andropause. It begins in the middle age and is the main reason for male hormone substitution therapy in the male population looking for permanent health and youth.
Thehormonal levels in the human body are regulated by feedback with the pituitary gland, a small gland at the base of the brain that controls the metabolism of the body. When the hormone levels were artificially increased, the pituitary gland reduces its production of stimulating hormones and produces less testosterone. This feedback cycle causes expected results of substitution therapy with testosterone such as the accumulation of SVALine materials and remedy for erectile dysfunction, rarely can be seen, although there are juvenile side effects of increasing sexual taste and reducing body fat.
Sometimes there is a problem with testosterone production when the testic tissue of the testicles of the testicles does not receive a pituitary from the pituitary to start the production of hormones. This condition is called hypogonadism, it can occur in adult men and infants and causes about 1 percent of all children born sexually abnormal. Of these infants, the attending physician is assigned to one of the 10 - or 0.1 percent of all children - sex dependent on the genetic and physical properties of the child. This would mean approximately 300,000 intersex people in the population of 300 million. These intermediate individuals, along with physically normal women who identify themselves as male transsexuals, can benefit from male hormone substitution therapy to achieve their desired sexual identity, man identity.
Substitution therapy male hormones as in the case of And andOgen in older individuals, is not an end of the enclosure that many men expect when they hope for eternal youth. Some androgens help to accumulate muscle mass and reduce body fat and can fight osteoporosis in men, resulting in younger functioning of their aging tissues and organs. Research with testosterone has revealed several anti -Indian or danger to individuals during long -term use, including liver damage through toxicity, feminization due to liver conversion into some testosterone into estrogen and the possibility that repeated use of hormone can stimulate prostate cancer or other hidden cancer.