Testerone doubles risk of heart attack in over 65s?

[daifu-orchid (imported)]

Here's a link to a Korean study linking longevity and eunuchs: http://www.bbc.com/news/health-19699266

-Same story, eunuchs last longer!

[JesusA (imported)]

A related thread, with overlapping information, can be found at "Testosterone Risks": http://forums.eunuch.org/showthread.php ... rone-Risks

An old thread on the "Life span of Korean eunuchs" can be found at: http://forums.eunuch.org/showthread.php ... an-eunuchs. The thread includes a link to the original article, which includes an important chart that could not be posted on the Archive.

[daifu-orchid (imported)]

Ooops! Unintentional necropostia!

[JesusA (imported)]

Ooops! Unintentional necropostia!

With over 20,000 different threads on the Archive dating from 2001 to the present, no one can possibly know all that has gone before. There's nothing wrong with a new thread on a topic when someone has new information. When someone does discover an earlier thread, though, I think that it's a good idea to post a link to the previous information.

[daifu-orchid (imported)]

(Too kind, J. -There is always that abundance of useful Search tools at the top of every page, to be studiously ignored!)

An entirely mischievous thought: Supplemental T is a leading money maker in US; I wonder if it is known how often a Doc checks a T level before prescribing it anyway, knowing the risk and surely not dismissing it in the interest of making an extra buck or two? Perish the thought!.

[tugon (imported)]

(Too kind, J. -There is always that abundance of useful Search tools at the top of every page, to be studiously ignored!)

An entirely mischievous thought: Supplemental T is a leading money maker in US; I wonder if it is known how often a Doc checks a T level before prescribing it anyway, knowing the risk and surely not dismissing it in the interest of making an extra buck or two? Perish the thought!.

On the other hand imagine the doctors who are inundated with requests of all these ads for life quality enhancing meds. We do not want to feel sad, age or lose our erections. Well not "ours". A doctor shared with me that between the internet and pharmacy ads it was tough practicing medicine. I am sure men would demand T and a busy doc would probably just prescribe it.

[PetJohan (imported)]

Seems another investigation has just shown the link between testosterone and heart attacks, a doubling of the risk in the over 65s.

Given that old farts keel over from heart attacks far too frequently anyway, this seems of interest:

http://www.newsinferno.com/heart-attack ... udy-finds/

It is indeed good to be a eunuch?

Look far enough and read enough studies on a specific area and you'll find both support and disagreement. Any drug can have negative effects in that each person is singular in their physical make-up therefore introducing an unknown can have an unknown effect. Very infrequently but that risk always exists.

As to the cardio-vascular implications, one would need to see how far back studies of participants went, specifically as pertains to their heart, to even have a vague idea as to usage and its potential for medical problems. Do you take 81 mgs of aspirin a day? It's generally realized that one should however there is a very small group of people to whom this might be fatal. Ditto any medication and some, now, to defeat resistance strains created in the body have become amazing brews of things that had to be used to bypass the restrictive elements, primarily in the white blood cells, that would see them as pathogens and attack them.

I take Depo Testosterone weekly as its been shown to be efficacious in treating the symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis which I have. I was castrated ten years ago and DT, which I was then taking for MS, was not shown to have any participation in my heart or other organ functions. IF you feel that it's not correct for you, don't take it. Few doctors will prescribe it as routinely as many other drugs or medicines.

All that said, the usual must be that a group of the young, body builders, athletes etc, who began using it at an early age do put themselves at a higher risk but it must be added what they are doing physically to themselves is easily just as threatening.

Let us remember that testosterone is a naturally occurring substance in all bodies so the concept of introducing a wholly new element does not exist.

[humlind1 (imported)]

As u age your body naturly loose testosterone.

so the one of us. that have not naturly make testosterone in our body.

have to take that into acount.

my nevro.

told me about this as i started my training.

and used time to say.

that i need to keep clouse contact with doctor.

and the testosterone level.

compeered.

to age level.

also it has to do with your, iron level and general healt level.

to keep risk of heart problems.

and other body related problems at check.

For me, the biggest problem is, with out a doubt.

the mind part.

it's like.

one thing to keep your body in shape.

but to avoid all the darkness. and the melt downs.

is for me. where i have a real struggle.

but its like one step at a time.

i know the path.