ANDROPAUSE What is it?
When men get between 40 and 55 years of age, they begin to experience changes similar to those caused by menopause in women. These changes, which gradually from low testosterone, called andropause.
Unlike women, who no longer have their menstrual process as clear sign of menopause, men do not have clear signs to be going through these changes, and are entering the transition to andropause.
These cycles are characterized by a fall not less, hormone levels, specifically of testosterone.
In the male body, these changes of the transition, occur very gradually, and may extend for years, but it accelerates very harmful, especially by psychological stress, smoking, excessive alcohol consumption, obesity and poor eating habits.
This transition is accompanied by mood swings, fatigue, abrupt mood changes, irritability, depression, loss of mental and physical energy, sex drive changes, variations in the quality of your skin. But it also increases the risk of osteoporosis and heart disease.
Since this occurs at an age where people naturally begin to rethink his life, his past, present and future momentum, these symptoms become part of normal aging, stress, and this barrier is meant as "age" and are associated with external actors, particularly emotional stress.
While all men have these hormonal changes and decreased testosterone, can not be sure who suffer the symptoms or the process will be asymptomatic, or which exact age was entered in Cycle andropause, as it varies from person to person .
One of the main problems facing the physician before a diagnosis is that mostly men will cost a lot to admit that there is already some kind problems, especially if it is about sexual performance.
One of the most common questions is: How important is testosterone?, Well the hormone testosterone, which is effective throughout the male body.
Testosterone is produced in the testes and adrenal glands. Helps form proteins and is essential for normal sexual behavior and producing erections.
also affects many metabolic activities such as production of blood cells in the bone marrow in a formation and bone strength, as well as in the metabolism of lipids, carbohydrates, liver function and prostatic levels.
The decrease in testosterone can produce:
-
lower sex drive - increase in body fat
-
cardiovascular risk -
osteoporosis - brittle bones
-
back pain and fibromyalgia -
less muscle mass - loss of skeletal muscle resistance
- Emotional and psychological changes
- sleep disorders and behavioral
But not everything is bad, men can choose a good diagnosis on time, hormone replacement therapy, as do women. Like any treatment, there are some pre-existing conditions, where this replacement is not compatible, as when a patient has heart disease severe kidney problems, diabetes, liver disease, hypertrophic vascular diseases, prostate cancer or male breast cancer.
hormone replacement therapy testosterone in men with andropause, has proved highly effective and beneficial. Improve mood, libido, sexual performance, memory, sleep quality, weight loss, much more physical and mental energy, less anger, less irritability and tendency to depression, reduces the risk of developing associated diseases.
With a normal load of testosterone, men feel more masculine and successful, and uplifting and, therefore, self-improvement. By having a better self-image plays a much more active role in society.
However, there are many men who feel they accept that they have andropause, less manly, and that if they have to resort to hormone replacement therapy, are old, they are less attractive, which will be charged more irritable by high testosterone because testosterone is always associated with frustration, aggression and hostility, and ends by removing the "beast" that lives in man. But the reality is they're just urban myths.
We can not rewind time, or stop believing that the mechanisms of aging, but "aging" does not mean in any way "being old."
"AGING" is natural, we will all SO, NOW, "TO BE OR FEEL OLD 'IS AN OPTION OF LIFE, AND YOU CAN NOT DECIDE.
Sandra J. Mazzeo Dermocosmiatra
09-7396893 / 02-9819513
sandramazzeo@gmail.com
www.conceptodc.cl
http://sandramazzeo.blogspot.com/
0 comments:
Post a Comment