Post Date April, 15 2023
Can androgen supplementation keep men passionate and ambitious forever? The doctor said that androgen supplementation may lead to hypertrophy of the prostate. Do you want to be hypertrophic or hyperactive? Have men considered clearly?
Women also have androgens
Because hormone imbalance has no impact on life, many people do not pay much attention to it. As a matter of fact, there are few doctors who have studied the subject of androgen at present. After many trials and turns, the reporter finally found the only expert who has studied the subject in Jiangsu Province: Di Fusong, director of the Endocrinology Department of Jiangsu Provincial People's Hospital.
Director Difusong briefly introduced some knowledge about androgens that we have ignored or often misunderstood.
First, in determining sex, androgen is the sex hormone corresponding to estrogen. Androgens begin to work during the embryonic development of men. Androgens can differentiate the external genitalia into penises. If there is no stimulation of androgens in the embryonic period, the original genitalia will be transformed into female type. Then, the baby born may become male and female. It is difficult for even experts to determine the gender of some serious patients in adulthood. Therefore, Director Di warned that pregnant women should not randomly supplement hormones.
When children reach adolescence, boys begin to develop, and the level of androgen in the body will increase significantly, while girls also secrete androgen. Under normal circumstances, the ratio of androgen in women and men should be 1:10. In some boys, when they reach the stage of development, their sexual characteristics stagnate or fail to reach the normal level. This symptom is simply low androgen level.
There are many reasons for the low level of androgen. Director Di said that androgen, like estrogen, is affected by the pituitary and hypothalamus, and secreted by the testicles. Once the above related organs have problems, including tumors and other diseases, the hormone secretion will be affected. Therefore, low androgen is a symptom that cannot be ignored.
For adult men, the amount of androgen secretion plays a very important role.
Androgen affects our; Libido
With regard to the physiological problems of adult men, Director Di believes that androgen and male sexual function are closely related. Men's sexual desire requirements, sexual excitement and the ability to erect all need androgen as the driving force. The low level of androgen in men will directly affect their sexual desire, and will also result in low quantity and low quality of sperm. Some studies have also said that if a man does not have enough androgen until he reaches adulthood, the results are varied, from complete loss of libido, decreased libido to normal libido.
In addition, for women, women with high levels of androgen secretion will have strong sexual desire.
However, if the female body secretes too much androgen, because androgen can inhibit the secretion of gonadotropin-releasing hormone in the hypothalamus, and has the effect of resisting estrogen, the ovarian function is inhibited and amenorrhea occurs, and there is even masculine expression. At the same time, it will lead to endocrine disorders, causing acne, hirsutism and other symptoms.
In addition, the level of sexual desire is also affected by other factors. The level of hormone secretion is also cyclical. The level of male testosterone will change rhythmically within 24 hours, with the highest in the morning and the lowest in the evening. In a year, people tend to have more vigorous sexual desire in spring, but the response of human physiological cycle is not as obvious as that of animals. However, although men often have erections in the morning, the peak time of sexual activity is at night, which also shows that human sexuality is not only related to hormones, but also restricted by other factors.
Other scientific studies have also shown an interesting conclusion: for mature animals, the more advanced animals are, the less fully controlled by androgens in their sexual activities. However, if immature animals are castrated, including humans, they will lose their sexual activity completely.
It is normal for men to have children at the age of 80
The medical definition of women entering menopause mainly includes:; Menopause is the basis for judgment. After menopause, women completely lose their reproductive function. And male; It is difficult to judge the period of ejaculation. Director Di cited Confucius as an example. It is said that when Confucius was born, his father was 70 or 80 years old. A man in his seventies and eighties gave birth to a son with superior intelligence. It can be seen that his physiological function at that time reached normal indicators, that is, his sperm was still very active.
Since men at the age of 80 can have reproductive function, should men at the age of 60 and 70 also maintain high sexual desire to be normal? On this topic, Director Di believes that it depends on personal needs. If a 60-year-old man finds a wife 20 or 30 years younger than him, he may need to add some androgens appropriately.
Of course, when replenishing androgen, there are also corresponding precautions like estrogen, such as, the other functions of the body of the person who needs to be replenished are basically normal, and the heart is healthy; In addition, androgen supplementation may lead to hypertrophy of the prostate. Therefore, hormone supplementation should be carried out under the doctor's prescription after comprehensive examination in the hospital. Abuse of hormones will cause huge potential risks to the body.
However, there are also many men who gradually lose their sexual ability or have low sexual desire in their prime of life. These problems may be caused by various reasons.
To sum up, Director Di told the reporter that the question of whether men have menopause is still under discussion.
No matter how male menopause is defined, most men yearn for no menopause. Therefore, in addition to the direct supplement of androgen, there are also men who use the method of traditional Chinese medicine to nourish the male, that is, to take androgen from food. Is this kind of supplement really useful?
; After the whip is cooked, the androgen is gone
In the folk, there are a lot of stories about the bull whip and deer whip to make people strong. Is there any scientific basis for this?
Director Di believes that this statement is scientific, because the genitals of these male animals do contain androgen, but this amino acid (peptide) disappears when it encounters high temperature, that is, when it is cooked. Of course, you can't eat it raw for this reason. After all, ordinary meat will carry a lot of parasites without processing. Therefore, the view that food can nourish and strengthen yang is mainly to give people a little psychological effect. In addition, although some plants have been found to contain estrogen, no plants have been found to contain androgens.
