Sentences with phrase «of more testosterone»

This ovarian and insulin imbalance could contribute to the creation of more testosterone, causing symptoms like cystic acne, excess facial hair (hirsutism) and head hair loss (androgenic alopecia).

The injection contains hormones that send signals to the body for production of more testosterone.

For instance, light therapy inhibits the pineal gland in the centre of the brain and this may allow the production of more testosterone, and there are probably other hormonal effects.

Not exact matches

When you think of testosterone, it's easy to focus on sports and competition, but testosterone's importance covers much more than athletics.

In arguing for more research in physiology, he cited «a definitive health survey of nearly 4,500 Vietnam war veterans revealing that men with the highest levels of testosterone — a male sex hormone — were violent and impulsive, committed crimes, abused drugs, were promiscuous, beat their wives and had poor work records.

The testosterone - fuelled clashes that we see on the news periodically between various factions of monks that tend to the shrines of the Holy Land was a much more common and widespread occurrence in the 4th century.

If these «Christians» actually read the bible itself, they would realize that the last thing that Christ himself (who was not some kind of a testosterone hoped up person) would have done was to have placed young people (who he actually called the essence of heaven itself) in more danger than was absolutely necessary.

But it is true that in the Netherlands, where Smith has spent much of her time since 1993, steroids, testosterone and human growth hormone (hGH), all of which can help an athlete train harder and build muscle more efficiently, can be purchased cheaply and easily.

Men have more testosterone and therefore move wore weight, which leads to an increase in the muscular degradation, as well as the depletion of the nervous system.

He may not have ovaries that stop working but he and men of his age (56) go thru physical changes too, and that change is no more testosterone.

Guys who are rated as the most masculine — a billboard for a man's good genes — tend to have more testosterone, and men with higher testosterone levels are 43 percent more likely to get divorced than men with normal levels, 31 percent more likely to split because of marital problems and 38 percent more likely to cheat.

Anabolic steroids - more properly termed anabolic - androgenic steroids - are synthetic derivatives of testosterone - the hormone that makes a man a man.

(Conventional wisdom links testosterone with aggression, but researchers find that it's more accurately predictive of respect - seeking.

Even more interesting, is that the father's testosterone levels lower by 30 % within the first three weeks of their baby's life, allowing fathers to better bond on a nurturing level with their child.

One possibility is that men who have naturally lower amounts of testosterone may be more likely to become fathers and be involved in childcare, compared with men with naturally high testosterone levels.

The report of a study published in the Scientific American showed that men with lower levels of testosterone are more vulnerable to depression.

Far more important to me is what drives healthy young women like 25 year old Dusty Radar (profiled in today's Hartford Courant) to cut off their breasts, inject themselves with an amount of testosterone not intended for their bodies (whose long - term consequences are unknown) and possibly sterilize themselves with unnecessary hysterectomies in order to become a pseudo-man i.e., a transman.

There are more than 30 kinds of anabolic - androgenic steroids — the infamous» roids used and abused to promote muscle growth — but they are all synthetic compounds mimicking testosterone's chemical structure.

This relationship stability might be caused by the bias of women on the pill toward low - testosterone men, who tend to be more faithful.

The researchers hypothesized that Southerners come from a «culture of honor» in which aggressive responses to insults are culturally appropriate, and the results of their experiment bolstered that notion: Not only were Southerners more likely than their northern counterparts to respond with aggression, but their levels of testosterone also rose as a result.

In this way, testosterone is less a perpetrator and more an accomplice — one that's sometimes not too far from the scene of the crime.

It makes sense — in the short - term, testosterone helps make both males and females bigger, stronger and more energetic, all of which would be useful for winning a physical or even mental contest.

In tests on men in a polygamous society, those with high levels of testosterone in their saliva were more likely to have several wives and give their children less attention, compared with those with less of the hormone.

With FSH and a one - step contraceptive for men out of the picture, researchers must now concentrate on a more complicated hormonal balancing act between FSH, testosterone, and other reproductive hormones.

That breadth of response makes sense: in the short term, testosterone helps make both males and females bigger, stronger and more energetic, all of which would be useful for winning a physical or even mental contest.

Which is to say, are high - testosterone males more likely to become violent criminals, or does being a violent criminal raise a man's level of testosterone?

The male participants would normally have shown a slight nighttime drop in testosterone levels anyway, because the body doesn't need it during sleep, but on election night, they departed dramatically from this routine: Obama voters» levels did not fall as they should have, whereas those of McCain and Barr backers dropped more than would have been expected.

Not only were Southerners more likely than their Northern counterparts to respond with aggression, but their levels of testosterone also rose as a result.

Women who were given testosterone but thought it was a placebo, on the other hand, offered fair - share splits 60 percent of the time — significantly more often than those who correctly guessed they got testosterone (30 percent) or a placebo (50 percent).

Researchers expected an increase in testosterone levels to inevitably lead to more aggression, and this didn't reliably occur, says Frank T. McAndrew, a professor of psychology at Knox College in Galesburg, Ill..

Previous studies have suggested that men with more testosterone are more sexually active, but that levels of the hormone drop once men become fathers.

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.

Denmeade says the combination of drugs that block testosterone production and receptors, called androgen deprivation therapy, may make prostate cancer more aggressive over time by enabling prostate cancer cells to subvert attempts to block testosterone receptors.

Older men with low libido and low testosterone levels showed more interest in sex and engaged in more sexual activity when they underwent testosterone therapy, according to a new study published in the Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.

The authors stressed that the long - term reduction in aggressive disease was observed only in men after more than a year of testosterone use, and the risk of prostate cancer did not differ between gels and other types of preparations.

A new U.S. - based study of more than 25,000 older men shows that testosterone therapy does not increase men's risk for heart attack.

More research is needed to better understand the newer forms of hormone therapy that do not lower testosterone and how they impact survival,» D'Amico said.

But in their tests, the presence of testosterone made RORA less active, leading to a decline in aromatase and a buildup of even more testosterone.

In his letter, Richard Wilson suggests a more humane way of controlling the testosterone - fuelled excesses of investment bankers than by...

The study found that while there was no change in body weight, testosterone treatment produced a reduction in total body fat of 3 kilograms (more than six pounds) while increasing muscle mass by the same amount.

«I think it is more likely doctors will start seeing men with symptoms of low testosterone, and they will work backward to make the connection to Zika.»

«More information is needed on the effects of testosterone on the cervix and effective cervical screening strategies that do not rely on a Pap test.

For example, bearded ladies, which likely have higher levels of testosterone, might be more aggressive and thus better able to fight off predators or competitors when compared to the more - feminine females.

What's more, in fights between live males, Buchholz found that only snood length — which may in part be determined by a bird's testosterone level — was a good predictor of victory, more reliable even than weight.

All of these changes tend to make male faces look more like female ones, Franciscus noted at the meeting, and are linked to lower testosterone levels.

«When we started this study, we really thought that ovarian hormones would increase inflammation, more so than testosterone making it better,» says senior author Dawn Newcomb, of the Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

While this study focused on testosterone, Newcomb hopes to expand further studies to explore the effects of more sex hormones on asthma.

Indeed, these boys reached puberty earlier, were taller and more muscular, and had higher levels of testosterone in their blood as adults than did males who gained weight more slowly as infants.

While these XX male mice had the same level of testosterone as normal XY mice, they displayed more masculine sexual behaviours — mounting females more often and ejaculating more frequently.

«Most clinicians have felt that «more was better» when it came to blocking testosterone in prostate cancer patients, however, results for the specific endpoints we focused on, OS and DSS, indicate that this was clearly not the case,» said Amin Mirhadi, MD, lead author of the study and a radiation oncologist at Cedars - Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.