What is the content of male hormone health guidance?

The core of male hormone health guidance is around androgen secretion and metabolic balance, mainly testosterone, and full-cycle status adjustment and risk prevention and control. It is not as crude as the "make up for what is missing" rumored online.

I just met a 32-year-old Internet back-end programmer a while ago. After working on projects for half a year, I always felt tired, lost my hair, and couldn't get along with my partner. I was watching short videos and saw others saying that testosterone supplements can rejuvenate. I blindly bought a famous online testicle-stimulating supplement and took it for two months. My face broke out in acne and my temper became explosive. When I checked my hormones, I found that the testosterone did not increase much, and the estradiol was nearly double the normal range. I suffered for nothing.

There is also a lot of controversy online about androgen supplementation. Many people in the fitness circle think that as long as it is lower than the reference value, supplementation can quickly improve sports performance and mental state. Even if they have not reached the passing line, they want to supplement it to "extraordinary performance"”； However, most clinical doctors are against the casual use of exogenous testosterone by healthy people. After all, exogenous supplementation will inhibit the normal work of the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis. The body mistakenly believes that it has enough androgens, which will cause the testicles to reduce or even stop their own secretion. Over time, irreversible functional decline may occur. The current consensus in the industry is to first investigate the causes of the imbalance. More than 90% of young and middle-aged adults have low androgen levels secondary to low androgen levels, and there is no need to supplement external sources at all.

Don’t take it seriously. Many people’s low androgen levels are not caused by the body’s inability to produce them, but by their own living habits. Let’s just talk about abdominal obesity. The aromatase enzyme in the fat ring on the belly is like a conversion factory that works day and night, constantly converting androgens into estrogen. This is why many obese men have problems with breast development and low sexual desire. I have seen several patients reduce body fat from 28% to less than 20% without taking any medicine, and their testosterone directly increased by more than 30%, which is more effective than any supplement.

You don’t have to go to the hospital to draw blood. You just need to observe a few signs yourself: for example, whether the frequency of morning erections is significantly less than half a year ago, whether it takes two or three days to recover after the same amount of exercise, and whether you still feel tired when you wake up after seven or eight hours of sleep. These are all hints that androgen may be low. If you really need to take a test, remember to do it on an empty stomach between 8 and 10 a.m. This is the peak time of androgen secretion, so the test results will be accurate. If you rush to take a test in the afternoon, the normal indicators may be low, which will only cause you anxiety.

If you really adjust your lifestyle for two or three months, but the symptoms are not relieved and the indicators are still not improving, go to the men's department or endocrinologist in a regular hospital for evaluation. Don't mess around on your own. After all, the balance of male hormones is a delicate system, and problems may occur at almost any point, so it’s better to stay stable.