Although the first study on male andropause (or male menopause) was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association in the mid-1940s, it's only recently that the U.S. medical community has taken notice of this condition.

It is appropriate to first define a hormone. A hormone is a chemical substance produced in one part or organ of the body that starts or runs the activity of an organ or a group of cells in another part of the body.

Testosterone, estrogen, insulin, adrenalin and cortisone are all hormones which are at least vaguely familiar with regard to their function by most people.

Hormones tune our systems or un-tune them. The optimal function of every cell requires optimal hormonal input. Any decline in hormonal activity from youthful norms will result in suboptimal cellular activity.

Andropause is characterized by a loss of testosterone — the hormone that makes men, men. Most men see testosterone or declining androgen levels drop as they age. However, some men are impacted more than others.

Unlike the precipitous loss of estrogen that women hitting menopause face, the gradual loss of testosterone may take years to exact its mark on men with a host of symptoms not unlike changes menopausal women experience.

Symptoms of andropause can vary from one man to the next. Lethargy or decreased energy, decreased libido or interest in sex, erectile dysfunction with loss of erections, muscle weakness and aches, inability to sleep, hot flashes, night sweats, depression, infertility and thinning of bones or bone loss are hallmark signs of andropause. Are these unpleasant changes?—absolutely. Heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, arthritis, osteoporosis—most of major fatal risk factors are all intimately related to hormonal changes.

Interestingly, many of these health conditions improve or reverse themselves when a proper balancing of bio-identical hormone treatment is combined with a sensible diet. For example: Constant stress and poor nutrition can weaken the adrenal glands. When stress continues over prolonged periods of time, the adrenal glands can deplete the body's hormonal and energy reserves, and the glands may either shrink in size or hypertrophy (enlarge).

The overproduction of adrenal hormones caused by prolonged stress can weaken the immune system and inhibit the production of white blood cells that protect the body against foreign invaders (in particular lymphocytes and lymph node function). Adrenal dysfunction can disrupt the body's blood sugar metabolism, causing weakness, fatigue, and a feeling of being run down. It can also interfere with normal sleep rhythms and produce a wakeful, un-relaxing sleep state, making a person feel worn out even after a full night's sleep.

As you will learn from our highly skilled panel of medical specialists, testosterone has the capacity to drastically alter the course of aging, radically improve the quality of life, and change both the risk of experiencing many aging diseases in the middle and later years and the course of treatment, if and when they occur. In conjunction with the other hormones, it is capable of changing the entire second half of life. Like the other hormones, its effectiveness is limited to individuals who are out of balance or declining away from youthful healthy levels. Eventually that means most of us.

The rate at which you reach relative depletion will be individualized and largely unpredictable. However, our medical specialists can determine where you are by evaluating the composite of symptoms you already have and by doing specific lab tests.

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