Optimal Hormone Levels

Hormones are the most powerful molecules in our bodies, controlling the function, growth reproduction, metabolism, and repair of every cell. Our bodies require optimal hormone levels, just as they require optimal levels of essential vital nutrients: vitamins, fats, amino acids, and minerals.

Hormone levels are generally optimal in our early twenties but begin to decline at a rate of 2% per year after the age of 30. Hormone levels decline because our glands and the parts of our brain that control our glands deteriorate with age. This age-related hormone loss is natural, but it is not adaptive; it is destructive. It is one of mechanisms of aging.  It is Mother Nature’s way of cancelling us out by deterioration and death.

Hormone loss has been shown to contribute to many of the disorders and diseases that we suffer as we age – diabetes, atherosclerosis, high blood pressure, fatigue, loss of muscle strength, osteoporosis, autoimmune diseases, cognitive decline, increased cholesterol levels, loss of libido, depression, and some cancers. Many have additional non-age-related hormone insufficiencies or imbalances due to hypothalamic-pituitary dysfunction, endocrine gland failure, hormone resistance, and metabolic disorders.

Each day nearly 200 hormones and hormone-like substances course silently through your body, acting as chemical messengers secreted by nine major endocrine glands (adrenals, thyroid, parathyroid, testis, hypothalamus, pancreas, thymus, pituitary, pineal) and other organs.  These hormones affect every cell in your body, helping to determine whether you’re hot or cold, hungry or full, calm or stressed, alert or sleepy, and naughty or nice.

Testosterone is the therapeutic agent used for Andropause. But natural testosterone should not be confused with synthetic derivatives or so-called "anabolic steroids". These are notorious for their misuse by athletes and body builders and can cause great harm.

Transdermal testosterone cream rubbed well into the skin is used to treat Andropause. It does not irritate the skin like testosterone patches. It can be applied as little or as often as your body requires. And there are a variety of dosage strengths available but typically 10% is prescribed.

Diet, exercise, supplements and, transdermal testosterone/hormone therapy should help achieve optimal results for the man impacted by Andropause.

So keeping your hormones in an optimized state is vital for day-to-day good health.