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Anabolic Steroids: What Urologists Should Know In 1994, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's National Household Survey on Drug Abuse revealed that nearly 1.1 million Americans—0.5% of the adult population—said they had used anabolic steroids. The youngest users are...

In the 1920s, long before the appearance of modern antidepressants, physicians tried to treat listless men with a serum of ground-up animal testes, which they imagined contained the essence of male virility. In the '40s and '50s, when that essence had been discovered and synthesized in a...

Testosterone has been found to suppress the growth of some advanced prostate cancers and may also be able to reverse the resistance to prostate cancer drugs that suppress testosterone production. The findings are surprising, since testosterone is generally known to provide fuel for prostate...

Raising David James the 9th. Yep, the 9th. Wednesday, November 10, 2010 DaVinci's "Vitruvian Man" - Did you ever notice that he has his whole penis? I know, talking about baby penises seems like a strange choice for a blog post. I used to think that penises came in two varieties, circumcised...

Testosterone for the treatment of depression: A comprehensive review. Abstract: Testosterone is the primary male sex hormone, 2009 will mark the 104th anniversary of the term “hormone” named by Ernest Starling. Although the biological effects of testosterone were known for many centuries, the...

Six weeks of testosterone-enanthate: more weight on the bench, faster sprint, often not detectable <tbody> </tbody> A weekly injection with 3.5 mg testosterone enanthate per kilogram bodyweight is enough to increase trained athletes' sprint capacity, body weight and their 1RM for bench...

Androgens Are Not Evil! The field of androgen physiology is as fascinating as it is frustrating. Not only do mainstream journalists get the “facts” wrong, but also many of my own science colleagues are more than willing to sacrifice “scientific fact” for political correctness. God forbid you...

Sexual desire is typically higher in men than in women, with testosterone (T) thought to account for this difference as well as within-sex variation in desire in both women and men. However, few studies have incorporated both hormonal and social or psychological factors in studies of sexual...

i am sure alot of this stuff has been posted at some time but its a good read for the new guys Estrogen, Testosterone, & Phytoestrogens by Mike Falcon As bodybuilders, there are words we love and words we hate. Valued words include testosterone, muscle mass, androgens, protein and Tylene Buck...

Testosterone: a natural tonic for the failing heart? P.J. Pugh, K.M. English, T.H. Jones1 and K.S. Channer From the Department of Cardiology, Royal Hallamshire Hospital 1 Department of Human Metabolism and Clinical Biochemistry, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK Introduction Chronic...

Hypogonadism is a common condition, especially among older men, but often goes undiagnosed and untreated. It can be associated with a number of signs and symptoms that affect health and quality of life, including feelings of low energy and fatigue; decreased sex drive and performance; decreased...

The more testosterone you give men, the more fat they lose. Canadian and American endocrinologists describe the effect of a study in which they gave fifty healthy men different doses of testosterone enanthate for twenty weeks. Testosterone increases fat-free mass, and therefore also muscle...

Chemical athletes who use the anti-oestrogen nolvadex may also be making their blood vessels more healthy, and reducing their risk of a fatal heart attack. We deduce this from a trial done by researchers in Cambridge, England that was published eight years ago in Circulation. The active...

“In clinical trials where testosterone has been used in patients with pre-existing CV conditions, the effect on disease symptoms has typically been either neutral or beneficial,” the researchers wrote. According to results of the review, testosterone treatment significantly improved exercise...

It was long known that men suffer more rarely from inflammatory diseases than women, but now a new research has found how sexual hormones play an important role in this. They found that testosterone makes men less susceptible to inflammatory diseases and allergies than women. “In a series of...

An international trial of a male birth control injection has failed due to its serious side effects, the professors overseeing the German implementation of the test announced Monday. The trial, conducted by the World Health Organization (WHO) and CONRAD, a non-profit organization aimed at...

Compared to efficient and secure female contraception, a vasectomy and condoms are the only options for men. The choice of male contraceptive methods is limited, so contraception mainly rests on the shoulders of women. Several concepts are considered: testosterone administration--inhibiting...

Testosterone Replacement Treatment may now be officially recommended to men suffering "male menopause" in light of new findings, doctors say. The breakthrough findings were released at the start of Britain's first ever Andropause Awareness Week, in time for a gathering of scientists and...

By: Dan Gwartney, MD Few people know of the current state of anabolic androgenic steroids (AAS); it may be rarer still to find someone with knowledge of the history of anabolic steroids. Sadly, the best texts on the subject directly from the pioneers are difficult to locate as they have been...

By Dan Gwartney, M.D. Testosterone Undecanoate: Big Gains or Big Pain? Nearly every recreational user of anabolic steroids (AAS) accepts the legal and health risks in order to improve his quality of life— a more impressive physique, greater confidence, or a competitive edge. Yet, despite...