meramums (imported) wrote: Sat Mar 04, 2006 5:33 am Does anyone know if you can keep your muscle mass just by exercising despite chemical castration ?

Or will muscle mass go down anyway ?

If you want to convince yourself that testosterone is directly related to muscle mass, just look at any bodybuilding magazine ... it is really a transforming hormone.

Hormones are the main signals for controlling levels of just about everything that goes on physically in the body. Muscle, fat and bone growth are very sensitive to "sex hormones". As a matter of fact, so is cancer.

So unfortunately you can't just lower your testosterone (for sex drive control) and expect everything else to remain the same.