Not exact matches
Women who have
high levels of both
testosterone and estrogen in midlife may face a greater risk of
developing benign tumors on the uterus called uterine fibroids than women with low
levels of the hormones, according to a new study published in the Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.
Participants who had
high levels of
testosterone in the blood were 1.33 times more likely to
develop a single incidence of fibroids than women who had low
levels of
testosterone.
A fundamental reason as to why males carry more lean body mass than females, and have the potential to
develop greater amounts of muscle in less time, is precisely because their natural
testosterone levels are many times
higher than females.
This article reviewed the state of the evidence and, based on the prospective longitudinal studies, concluded that «men who
develop prostate cancer do not have
higher baseline
testosterone levels and men with
higher testosterone levels are at no greater risk for
developing prostate cancer than men with lower
testosterone levels.»
Unless you have a
high level of
testosterone, due to a condition like polycystic ovarian syndrome, it's unlikely that you'll
develop bulky muscles without bodybuilding supplements.
Furthermore, it has also been found that men who have been treated with synthetic
testosterone replacement therapy tend to
develop high levels of estrogen.
The symptoms of
high estrogen
levels [13] in men are similar to the symptoms they may experience when
testosterone levels become deficient, but some additional symptoms may also
develop.
Sometimes, however, mid-life women can
develop «androgen dominance» as
testosterone levels can become
high relative to declining ovarian estrogen and progesterone production.