Researchers have revealed that too much testosterone can make people overvalue our own opinions and blind us to other people’s views, it makes people act less cooperatively and more egocentrically.
The study has shown that in fact testosterone also affects people decisions, by making them more egotistical. Most of the time, this allows people to seek […]

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New research by Australian scientists reveals that males who are exposed to high levels of testosterone before birth are twice as likely to experience delays in language development compared to females.
The research, published in Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, focused on umbilical cord blood to explore the presence of testosterone when the language-related regions […]

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Doctors say men can experience their own version of hormonal change which some are calling “man-opause” or more accurately Andropause. The symptoms sound familiar: fatigue, mood swings, bone loss, but the conditions is not menopause. In fact, the ailments have nothing to do with being a woman.
According to medical experts, obese men are at a […]

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Researchers have long cited the adrenal glands and testes as the twin engines driving androgen (male hormone) production.
But a team from at Brown University in Providence wondered whether other organs or tissues might be involved. The observation stems from analyses in both mice and human tissue, revealing that proteins key to the production of hormones such […]

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Two thirds of GP’s don’t know that low testosterone in middle-aged men can cause heart disease and diabetes, researchers say.
Testosterone Deficiency Syndrome (TDS) affects almost a tenth of men in their 40s and 12 per cent in their 50s, leading to loss of sex drive, tiredness, weight gain and depression.
A survey presented at the Men’s […]

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It was long known that men suffer more rarely from inflammatory diseases than women, but now a new research at  the Institute of Pharmacy of University Jena has found how sexual hormones play an important role in this.
They found that in male cells the enzyme phospholipase D is less active than in the female ones […]

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A new study at the University of Sydney, Australia, suggests testosterone levels don’t necessarily drop with age, but it’s more likely among older men with declining general health.
Bucking prior research indicating age-related testosterone deficiency contributes to deteriorating health, fatigue and libido loss, Australian researchers found that blood testosterone amounts didn’t fall in older men with […]

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A new study finds low testosterone levels and symptoms of male sexual dysfunction due to obesity may be reversible with weight loss after bariatric surgery.Low testosterone levels were not strongly associated with complaints of sexual dysfunction before surgery. However, Thissen said men did not complain of sexual dysfunction after surgery-related weight loss.
 The results will be presented […]

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According to a study published in Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), cutting back on sleep drastically reduces a healthy young man’s testosterone levels.
The study leader found that men who slept less than five hours a night for one week in a laboratory had significantly lower levels of testosterone than when they had a full […]

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U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved AndroGel® (testosterone gel) 1.62%, a clear, odorless, gel formulation shown to restore testosterone levels in hypogonadal men with half the volume of gel at the starting dose compared to AndroGel 1%.
Nearly 14 million men in the United States may have low testosterone levels.  The Endocrine Society developed […]

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