testosterone

Excess Estrogen

Submitted by RonnyT on Fri, 2015-01-09 10:25

Most young men are dreading the day when their six-pack abs will bloat into a permanent beer belly, they will grow breasts and lose their libido.

Is it inevitable to look like this when you are middle-aged? Big Pharma would like us to believe that. But there is a lot you can do yourself to prevent such a body transformation.

Testosterone decline, which occurs naturally during age, was long thought to be sole reason for these middle-aged transformations. However, new evidence from Massachusetts General Hospital suggests estrogen – more commonly associated with female menopause – mediates some symptoms of “andropause” in men.

 

The idea of male menopause has solidified itself into medical culture in recent years, which has been matched by a tremendous boost in doctor’s prescriptions for testosterone supplements.

A 500 percent increase in prescriptions was recorded between 1993 and 2000, and this pattern continued over the course of the following decade.

The Causes Of Acne

Submitted by RonnyT on Mon, 2014-12-22 10:45

If you search the net for side-effects of anabolic androgenic Steroids (AAS) you will find many different opinions on the cause. And mostly you’ll find the pictures of this young (21) bodybuilder. Mostly used by offenders of steroid use.

In the countless threads on the discussion boards you can find a lot of bro-science. Like: “Acne is primarily genetically based -- some get it on back and shoulders, some get on the face, some don’t get anything -- you don't just get acne from aas -- I have never had so much as a pimple from taking anything. Yet my back was covered at one point in high school when I was 100% drug free--Your reading too much about the dangers of aas --I've never gotten acne, lost hair, gyno -- Never had any of that and the vast majority of users I know don't really either give or take some occasional acne. “

There also exist many discussions on pro-bodybuilders using enormous amounts of gear without any acne. Visible acne that is. Well most guys know that pictures a modified. Not only those of models and Playboy bunnies, but also the pictures of bodybuilders in the magazine, PhotoShop, you know.. Still it’s not hard to find pics of pro-bodybuilders covered with acne. Here I posted a picture of Dennis Wolf, but also Dorian Yates and others are not too hard to find.

Female hormonal desires

Submitted by RonnyT on Fri, 2014-08-22 08:26

In every fitness magazine, bodybuilding magazine or something like Men’s Health, we read about female sexuality. We enjoy pictures of scarcely dressed models. The same thing with all the discussion forums. And that goes on issue after issue. This made me come to the conclusion that this was very suitable as a subject.

 

Sigmund Freud

 

"The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?'"
-From Sigmund Freud: Life and Work by Ernest Jones, 1953

The history of synthetic testosterone

Submitted by RonnyT on Thu, 2013-06-20 15:50

The History of Synthetic Testosterone

Testosterone has long been banned in sports as a performance-enhancing drug. This use may soon be accepted in medicine alongside other legitimate hormonal therapies (by John M. Hoberman and Charles E. Yesalis )

On June 1, 1889, Charles Edouard Brown-Sequard, a prominent French physiologist, announced at the Societe de Biologie in Paris that he had devised a rejuvenating therapy for the body and mind. The 72-year-old professor reported that he had drastically reversed his own decline by injecting himself with a liquid extract derived from the testicles of dogs and guinea pigs. These injections, he told his audience, had increased his physical strength and intellectual energy, relieved his constipation and even lengthened the arc of his urine.

Almost all experts, including some of Brown-Sequard's contemporaries, have agreed that these positive effects were induced by the power of suggestion, despite Brown-Sequard's claims to the contrary. Yet he was correct in proposing that the functions of the testicles might be enhanced or restored by replacing the substances they produce. His achievement was thus to make the idea of the "internal secretion," initially proposed by another well-known French physiologist, Claude Bernard, in 1855, the basis of an organotherapeutic "replacement" technique. Brown-Sequard's insight that internal secretions could act as physiological regulators (named hormones in 1905) makes him one of the founders of modern endocrinology. So began an era of increasingly sophisticated hormonal treatments that led to the synthesis in 1935 of testosterone, the primary male hormone produced by the testicles.

The Positive Effects of Testosterone on the Heart

Submitted by RonnyT on Tue, 2011-08-16 19:06

The Positive Effects of Testosterone on the Heart
by Doug Kalman MS, RD

Steroids will cause your kidneys to implode, your heart to blow a ventricle, and your liver to squirt out of your arse, fly across the room, and knock the cat off the futon. We read it on the Internet and saw an after school special about it, so it must be true, right?

Actually, the more you learn about steroids, the more you come to realize that, like all drugs, there’s a difference between their intelligent use and outright abuse. In this article, Doug Kalman takes a look at the effects of Testosterone on the heart. What he found may surprise you.

Over the years we’ve all heard the repeated mantra that anabolic steroids are bad for the heart. Some physicians will tell you that gear raises your risk of heart disease by lowering your good cholesterol (HDL) and raising your bad cholesterol (LDL). In fact, as some docs will tell you, steroids are known to even induce cardiac hypertrophy (enlargement of the heart). And since you can’t flex your heart in an effort to woo women, who’d want that?

But, as in every story, there’s more than one side. In fact, let it be said, the dangers of steroids are overstated and, hold onto your seats, may even be good for the heart. Let’s examine some of the scientific studies on the positive effects of Testosterone on the heart.