Two interesting reports out about
testosterone this week.
One study’s headlines claim that contrary
to the popular belief that testosterone (T) levels drop a lot as men get older,
testosterone levels do not have to drop with age, although that’s not really
what the study found.
Rather, this Australian study found that
certain factors can make T levels drop faster than they otherwise might, and
those factors include the two unsurprising ones of depression and obesity but
also the very surprising one of quitting smoking, but please, please don’t take
that to mean that if you’re an aging male smoker and you want to slow down the
drop in your T levels that you should continue to smoke.
The other benefits of quitting smoking – at
any age (including in a recent study in one’s 80s) are too huge to ignore.
The second study confirmed one of these
findings by concluding that overweight men can raise their T levels by,
surprise, surprise, losing weight.
Now the last thing the world may need is
men with more circulating testosterone but for that small proportion of men who
suffer from T levels that are so low as to impact their health, here’s one way
to improve those levels.
