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Testosterone Therapy: To Boost or Not to Boost
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Fatigued? Libido fading? Muscle wasting away? You’re the perfect candidate for testosterone therapy, at least according to those seductive TV commercials. There’s certainly an ample market, with more than 1 in 3 men older than 45 suffering from a deficiency in the hormone responsible for masculine characteristics. But is low T therapy really a fountain of youth? Who really benefits from it? And is it safe? In this episode, we talk to a urologist about what’s often called the male menopause and when replacement therapy is the appropriate response.
Expert: Dr. Nathan Starke, Urologist
Interviewer: Todd Ackerman
Notable topics covered:
- Does too much testosterone really cause “roid rage?”
- Is declining testosterone inevitable? What are normal levels?
- Natural ways to boost your testosterone
- The symptoms that warrant going in for a blood test
- Why testosterone use tripled in the century’s first decade
- Types of prescription testosterone: injections, gels, patches and, now, pills
- Have concerns about heart side effects been debunked?
- The connection between testosterone and prostate cancer
- Testosterone’s little-known precipitous drop: impending fatherhood
- The causes of low testosterone
- The difference between testosterone therapy and performance-enhancing steroids
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