What is testosterone?
Testosterone - is the main "male" hormone. The entire group of male hormones called androgens. Testosterone helps maintain muscle strength, libido and potency, and bone density.
What happens if the testosterone level is too low?
With age, testosterone levels decline, and the following symptoms may occur:
- Severe fatigue (especially towards the end of the day);
- Sharp decrease of libido and potency;
- mood decline, depression, and depression.
If testosterone levels remained low throughout the year, there are changes in the body:
- Decreased muscle mass;
- Bones become brittle;
- It decreases the amount of hair;
- Increasing mammary glands (gynecomastia).
Why reduced testosterone?
- This may be the normal age-related decline;
- Injury or infection in the testicles;
- Treatment of malignant tumors (chemotherapy, radiation, hormonal therapy for prostate cancer);
- Is there a problem in the pituitary gland (a gland of internal secretion, which regulates the work of the testicles);
- Severe chronic liver and kidney disease, obesity, diabetes.
If it is normal, whether you want to go to the doctor?
These symptoms may be in other diseases. Therefore, if you find yourself in something similar, it is best to see a doctor.
How it is treated?
Doctors often prescribe testosterone preparations.
Sometimes men normally take the age of testosterone decline.
Sometimes, such a decline is too spoils the habitual way of life.
men over 60 years Testosterone is prescribed:
- If confirmed by the low level of two or more tests;
- If the symptoms interfere with life;
- If symptoms are not associated with other diseases.
This treatment increases the risk of developing prostate cancer, so you have to be screened regularly.
