One of the major things that are always pointed out is that
doing testosterone replacement therapy will change your life — literally.
Not exact matches
«Use of
testosterone replacement therapy in healthy men
does not increase risk of heart attack or stroke, new study finds.»
A new study of generally healthy men who used
testosterone replacement therapy to normalize
testosterone levels has found that taking supplemental
testosterone does not increase their risk of experiencing a heart attack or stroke.
So, why
do women need
testosterone replacement therapy?
This is one of the main differences between steroid abuse and
testosterone replacement therapy (TRT)-- you don't begin TRT until you've been evaluated for symptoms and had your levels tested.
To answer simply, women need
testosterone replacement therapy for the same reason men
do — a hormone critical to your body's normal function is absent.
Estrogen
replacement therapy has long been understood as a remedy for women who are suffering from a variety of side effects following menopause, but what many women don't know is that
testosterone replacement therapy may also need to be added to the mix to properly balance hormone levels.
Unlike men, women
do not have established norms for
testosterone replacement therapy, and researchers have yet to establish definitively what levels of free and total
testosterone might be too high or too low.
Testosterone replacement does not cure infertility, however.
Where bioidentical hormones
do offer better therapy when it comes to female hormone
replacement, there is no benefit when it comes to
testosterone.
If you've recently gone through menopause and you just don't feel the same anymore, if you've had a major life event like breast cancer and you're experiencing some of the symptoms above, then it may be time to consider getting
testosterone replacement therapy.
Postmenopausal women using BHRT (or HRT) typically take their
replacement hormones once or twice daily, as
do men using BHRT (fortunately for 21st century men, the formerly patented, carciogenic
testosterone analogue, methyltestosterone — widely and enthusiastically prescribed for men in the 1940s and early 1950s, as was Premarin ® for women from the 1980s until 2002 — is hardly every prescribed at present).
Obviously, I don't know everything about you I would need to know if I were truly making a treatment recommendation, but it seems apparent that there is definitely room for improvement, and I think
testosterone replacement could play a big part in that.
Testosterone replacement therapy
does not need to utilize bioidentical hormones in order to be safe and effective.
What
testosterone replacement therapy
does is help you feel like the age you are by eliminating some of the stressors on your health, stressors that low
testosterone can cause.
When we recommend estrogen
replacement therapy, progesterone therapy, or
testosterone therapy to our female patients, we don't focus solely on reaching predefined levels of hormones.
How high
does my
testosterone need to be and what is the best
replacement therapy?
I knew
testosterone did much more for a man's health than just «build muscle» — which I had no real interest in at this point — so I decided to explore TRT, or
testosterone replacement therapy.
And I definitely want to talk about some of the lifestyle factors that people should
do when they're kind of like not in that super-duper low category and maybe shouldn't be using
testosterone replacement therapy.
In our practice, hCG is sometimes used in conjunction with
testosterone replacement therapy in an attempt to preserve or restore fertility — and, for men with low
testosterone who still plan to have children, hCG monotherapy may be a good place to start, as hCG
does have a limited capacity to induce
testosterone production in the male body, in some cases, and may be sufficient on its own.
Testosterone slows down bone turnover rate — just like other cells die and require
replacement, so
do bone cells.
Now, if you want to learn more about the side effects of medically supervised
testosterone replacement therapy, you can
do so here — but realize that this is very different from
testosterone boosters or supplements.
Learn more about how insurance works with
testosterone replacement therapy, how you can get your levels tested, and what to
do next.
Do you have, for guys who you recommend use something like testosterone replacement therapy or hormone replacement, do you have specific methods or specific forms that you think are important versus other
Do you have, for guys who you recommend use something like
testosterone replacement therapy or hormone
replacement,
do you have specific methods or specific forms that you think are important versus other
do you have specific methods or specific forms that you think are important versus others?
If you have questions about how long
does it take for
Testosterone Replacement Therapy to work, feel free to give us a call to set up consultation or download «When Will I Feel Better?».
The first thing we want to
do is ensure that you
do not have unrealistic expectations for the results of
testosterone replacement therapy.
This all requires careful management, monitoring, and control, all of which must be
done by a medical provider who has experience with
testosterone replacement therapy.
Don't rely on a single set of
testosterone test results — it's often the case that medical providers give patients the wrong test, at the wrong time, and with the wrong interpretation (especially those who don't specialize in or aren't familiar with
testosterone replacement therapy).
When we mention
testosterone replacement therapy for women, many people
do a double - take — it's as though we've said something contradictory.
For instance, at 45, on legitimate
testosterone replacement therapy and with consistent diet and sleep routines, you can hit each bodypart twice in a seven - day rotation and train each of those groups with two to three movements
doing two sets to positive failure each workout.