The Healthy Eunuch

[jcat (imported)]

There are therefore 4 strands to staying healthy.

Hormones

Exercise

Diet

Supplements

(not necessarily in this order)

I work in IT so we love acronyms! so HEDS is my focus for 2012. Somewhere along these 4 four strands is a balance, taking into account your mileage may vary, there is probably a flow chart or 'health' flow that can be built up and stepped through.

It does appear to get complicated. If castration is achieved by using the 'chemical' method, those drugs open up a whole can of worms of side effects see

http://www.eunuch.org/forums/showthread.php?1

2114-Due-to-requests-chemical-castration-protocal-with-optional-levels-of-feminizing.

My first thought was a starting point of castration by surgical removal and the HEDS required. However, it has just this moment occurred to me that 'Chemical Castration' adds a significant load to staying healthy and because the side effects are so wide and variable person to person (YMMV), it suddenly becomes really complex.

My next thought, (I am spontaneous, so quite dangerous if I decide to do something! Lock up the scalpels!) is that it may be better therefore to start at the end and work backwards. In other words one is or has become a 'Eunuch'.

Am I on the right track? Or is there a better more logical approach?

The HEDS requirement is the same for all who have lost the ability to produce Testosterone but has additional issues for chemical castration and then any TRT/HRT adds side effects to be brought into the HEDS balance!

Simple!?

Not really! There are an awful lot if 'If x then y and if not then z' questions.

All the data is probably either in EA or in the heads and experience of the members here.

[janekane (imported)]

I saw part of a public television program today, about aging and dementia. The speaker noted that low levels of sex hormones in both males and females who are developing Alzheimer's Disorder appear to contribute to the severity of dementia and hormone supplementation tends to reduce, and may even reverse, Alzheimer's Disorder dementia.

That might seem to suggest that someone like me is at greater risk of dementia because of being castrated than would otherwise be true.

However, my dad died of cancer at an age many years younger than I am, and my brother died from cancer more than two decades younger than I am.

I figure that being dead from cancer is about as far as dementia ever gets.

Biological diversity may make what extends one person's live greatly shorten the life of another person. That is why I describe my experiences without ever suggesting that someone else will, following castration, have -- or not have -- experiences comparable to mine.

Not only that, but I continue to do research as a bioengineer, and continue to find my mental ability to be verifiably increasing, not diminishing, based on the time it takes for me to learn new and challenging things.

[devi (imported)]

There are also other ways of getting your calcium. There are the deep green leafy vegetables and the sunshine. Plus the other day as I was preparing beans to cook and as I throwing in a stew bone into the pressure cooker, I got to thinking that this has been another way I've been getting my calcium also.