Testosterone is GOOD for Your Prostate II

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Testosterone is GOOD for Your Prostate II

- Roger Mason

You ladies please read this column today as there is a man in your life who will most probably have a prostate condition one day. Also testosterone levels are just as important for women especially for osteoporosis and bone loss.

All the doctors of the world will tell you that testosterone is a man's enemy and causes prostate cancer to grow. Common sense however tells you young men with lots of testosterone rarely get any prostate condition where 4 out of 5 men over 70 already have prostate cancer in their bodies. This misconception is based on the "eunuch theory" where castrated men do not get prostate disease. Eunuchs cannot have sex and have pitifully underdeveloped reproductive organs; they live short lives, have very bad health and are never really men.

My book "The Natural Prostate Cure" shows how men can naturally cure BPH (enlargement), prostatitis (inflammation) or even outright prostate cancer. That's right, you can cure cancer naturally and people do it every day. In the book you will find 28 published clinical studies to prove beyond any doubt that testosterone is GOOD for prostate health , necessary for a healthy prostate and actually helps CURE prostate cancer rather than exacerbate and increase it. There are more studies that will go in the next revision of the book, but I wanted to share one of them with you today.

Everyone, male or female, over 40 should test their testosterone level with an inexpensive saliva test kit. You can find these on the internet. A blood test from a doctor is costly and doctors know almost nothing about hormones in the first place and will test your (useless) "bound" level which is not bioavailable. If you're lucky he'll also test your free (bioavailable) level and he might yammer on about the "bound:free ratio" which has nothing to do with nothing. The saliva test will ONLY tell your free bioavailable level.

At the University of PA School of Medicine a group of doctors found men of all ages who were low in testosterone (hypogonadal is the term). Instead of giving them unnatural oral testosterone salts they gave them natural transdermal testosterone cream to raise their levels. The average level at start was a miserable 78 ng (nanograms) and they raised the average level to 407! I mean these guys were not doing well in the testosterone department. According to the conventional medical wisdom these men would now develop epidemic prostate problems over the next three years of treatment.

Quite the opposite happened. The average PSA (prostate specific antigen) level was 2.0 at the beginning and was still 2.0 three years later with their testosterone levels up more than 500%. If this isn't proof that testosterone is safe and good for men then there is no more proof than real men over three years with their testosterone up fivefold. Their urine flow (EPH restricts urine flow up to the point of death at times) increased from 23.7 ml per minute up to 26.5 ml per minute.

It just gets better from here... their bones got stronger and this would apply to women low in testosterone as well. Their lumbar bone density increased almost 8% in three years. No drug on earth will make your bones stronger and denser especially these much touted osteoporosis drugs that do not work and are very toxic.

Now their muscle mass increased almost seven pounds and their fat mass did not change at all. This means they had a lower body fat ratio by raising their testosterone. It is very difficult to lower your body fat ratio except by stringent diet and lots of exercise and they did not change what they ate or how much exercise they got. This is amazing to do this with no lifestyle change. They did not get any stronger however and you have to exercise to gain strength.

They looked at the previous literature and realized men with low testosterone levels have less muscle mass, weaker bones, less healthy blood parameters, less energy, poor sexual function and other problems.

Which brings us to what is called "hemocrit" and "hemoglobin" blood measurements. The authors said, "One of the most striking changes in response to testosterone treatment was the increase in hematocrit and hemoglobin from minimally subnormal to mid-normal mostly within the first three months..."

The men also reported they just plain felt better generally, were happier, less prone to depression and felt good. They also had more energy and less fatigue. Their sexual functioning improved and this is something that cannot be faked. Either a man performs or he doesn't perform and there is no gray area here. Many other studies have reported increases in sexual performance when hypogonadal men are given testosterone.

How can you raise your testosterone? You can take 50 mg of androstenedione. Minorities of men do not convert this well to testosterone and this will not work for them. You can go to a doctor and get a NATURAL transdermal cream 3% from a compounding pharmacist. Do not get the name brand "Androgel" as it is very weak (only 1%) and very expensive ($100). You can get a 5% cream if your level is very low or you are very old. Use a half gram of cream a day so a 100 g tube will last you almost 7 months. Pay less than $100 for it or get an internet compounding pharmacy to fill your prescription. One pharmacy here in Wilmington wanted over $150 and another only $75. Do not fool with the various analogs of androstenedione as these are promoted by the meat-heads who write for the weight lifting magazines. No studies have been done on 5-androstendione, nor-androstenedione or the and-rostenediols and we just don't know what they do. And companies like Life Extension who sell Tribulis/Muira Puama/Maca combinations to raise your testosterone are too funny for words. Well, funny to me anyway since I'm not stupid enough to buy something like that. Which brings us to the herbal "sexual rejuvenants" you see advertised everywhere. If you think paying $29.95 for a useless herbal mixture is going to bring back your sexuality you're beyond hope anyway.

Men and women test your testosterone with a saliva kit and test your DHEA along with it since they are both androgens. If you are low then raise your levels. Women only have one tenth the testosterone men do but it is just as important for them.

reference: J. Clin. Endoc. Metab. (2000) v. 85, p. 2670