Screening plan to tackle male menopause
Boost weight loss, libidi, Muscle.
Doctors have drawn up plans to screen older men for the male menopause, amid concerns that as many as one in five of the over-65s may be affected.
The existence of a male equivalent to the menopause is still controversial, but most experts agree some men experience a crash in testosterone that can leave them tired, depressed and lacking in libido.
The so-called “andropause” has also been linked to diabetes and obesity, and in some cases can be treated with testosterone injections.
Medical associations, including the European Association of Urology, have issued guidelines recommending that men with type 2 diabetes and symptoms of testosterone deficiency be tested.
“It is going to pick up a lot of men with low testosterone who previously would have been sat at home without their doctor investigating it,” said Hugh Jones, professor of andrology at Sheffield University.
Unlike the menopause in women, not all men experience the andropause and scientists say that only those showing clear symptoms should be offered testosterone injections. read more
testosterone boosts sexual episodes among postmenopausal women with low libidos
A study published in the July 2008 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine
found a high percentage of women in the United States experience low sexual desire and another study showed a high dose of testosterone boosts sexual episodes among postmenopausal women with low libidos.
The first study showed prevalence of low sexual drive ranged from 26.7 percent among premenopausal women to 52.4 percent among naturally menopausal women. Of surgically menopausal women, 12.5 percent had hypoactive sexual desire disorder.
Low sexual drive is associated with low levels of arousal and sexual excitement, resulting in infrequent orgasms and reduced sexual satisfaction.
For the study, Suzanne L and colleagues from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill and Procter & Gamble Pharmaceuticals in Mason, Ohio surveyed 2,207 U.S. women aged 30 to 70 and in stable relationships that lasted equal or greater than three months for their sexual desire.
The researchers focused on 755 premenopausal women and 552 naturally and 637 surgically menopausal women. Low sexual desire was defined using the profile of female sexual function desire domain and HSDD was defined using the profile of female sexual function and the personal distress scale.
Suzanne and colleagues concluded that “Prevalence of low sexual desire is elevated among surgically and naturally menopausal women vs premenopausal women. Distress about low desire (HSDD) appears to be more than twice as prevalent among surgically menopausal women vs premenopausal women, although the estimate is fairly imprecise.”
One treatment for low sexual desire in women is use of testosterone. Another study published in a recent issue of the New England Journal of Medicine found that 300 micrograms of this hormone per day for 24 weeks more than doubled sexual episodes or the frequency of having sex among postmenopausal women with hypoactive sexual desire disorder, a condition that is caused by a low libido and affects as many as 32% of the menopausal population .
Editor comment: Remember that this is Synthetic Testosterone they are talking about here. Natural testosterone as made by the body has no negative symptoms.
But the testosterone patches for women comes with a risk. Of 534 women receiving the treatment, 4 were diagnosed with breast cancer
during the one-year study compared to one of 277 women in the control group.
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