What does testosterone have to do with midlife Crisis?

Well it doesn’t take too much of a stretch of imagination to understand. We men have always known that “feeling good” and testosterone boosts go hand-in-hand. But now that science has caught up to our grade 9 science class they finally have something to say.

 

A consistent finding in the scientific literature is that testosterone increase even by replacement therapy produces an increased feeling of well-being. Published studies show that low levels of free testosterone correlates with symptoms of depression and other psychological disorders.

 

According to www.lef.org the most frequent common side effect of prescription antidepressant drugs is the suppression of libido. This is NOT what we want. Those with depression either accept this drug-induced reduction in quality of life, or get off the antidepressant drugs so they can at least have a somewhat normal sex life.

 

If more psychiatrists had their clients blood tested for free testosterone and prescribed natural testosterone therapies to those with low free testosterone, the need for libido-suppressing antidepressant drugs could be reduced or eliminated.

 

Testosterone replacement often enhances libido, the opposite effect of most prescription antidepressants. One study showed that patients with major depression experienced improvement that was equal to that achieved with standard antidepressant drugs.

 

A 12-month clinical trial using Androderm resulted in a statistically significant reduction in the depression score (6.9 before versus 3.9 after). Also noted were highly significant decreases in fatigue: from 79% before the patch to only 10% after 12 months.

 

According to Jonathan Wright, M.D., co-author of Maximize Your Vitality & Potency, the following effects have been reported in response to low free testosterone levels:

 

Loss of ability to concentrate
Moodiness and emotionality
Touchiness and irritability
Great timidity
Feeling weak
Inner unrest
Memory failure
Reduced intellectual agility
Passive attitudes
General tiredness
Reduced interest in surroundings
The above feelings can also be clinical symptoms of depression, and testosterone replacement therapy has been shown to alleviate these conditions. Testosterone thus has exciting therapeutic potential in the treatment of depression in men.

 

More information on low testosterone symptoms here. 

 

 

So why don’t doctors treat our hormones then instead? The answer is profound. Medical doctors in training for 7 years receive only 4 days teaching that covers “hormones”.
Yet when you go to see him; he is supposed to be in-the-know and likely won’t tell you that he doesn’t know. To him it is simpler to prescribe a drug to treat the symptom than to earnestly seek a cure in a region he knows very little about.

 

Even if you were to ask for a Testosterone Blood Test – they will test your total testosterone levels and report a scale of low / normal / high. These results mean absolutely nothing. “Normal” is interpreted as average for a midlife male between forty and sixty years old. Never mind that what is typically “average” for a midlife male is the results in the list above. My response to my doctor was “I have about all of the normal that I care to take!

 

The only blood test that will indicate true results is a bio-available testosterone test that measures how much free testosterone is not bound by SGBG or converted (aromatased) into Estrogen. A high level of total testosterone with a high level of Estrogen (E2) will yield the same results in the above list.

 

Doctors don’t / won’t treat our hormones because they do not know enough and are often resistant to their patients teaching them.

 

Two major cycles of a man in midlife crisis (depression & anxiety) are directly related to his current levels of bio-available free testosterone. We can deal effectively with much at the root of midlife male depression by inhibiting the conversion of your testosterone into estrogen. Furthermore we may release more bio-available testosterone to your receptors by reducing SHBG’s binding of free testosterone.

(via midlifeclub.com)

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