Another study that contradicts the pervasive dogma that higher T levels are a nightmare for aging males, leading to everything from baldness, to prostate cancer, to heart disease, and even diabetes. Speaking of diabetes, the study found the exact opposite – i.e. the higher total T levels were in a male under 65, the lower his risk of developing diabetes was. Unfortunately, our modern lifestyle of bathing in endocrine disruptors 24×7 decimates male T levels, and so do a number of very widely prescribed pharma drugs (statins, PPI inhibitors, blood-thinners, etc). Be that as it may, it would be nice to see a subsequent study examine the role of cortisol as well, since a few studies with longer term measurements (done in hair or nails) of cortisol (F) and testosterone demonstrated positive associations of F, but especially of the F\/T ratio with obesity, diabetes, and CVD, thus implicating directly chronic stress in this metabolic\/endocrine condition.<\/p>\n
https:\/\/www.endocrine.org\/news-and-advocacy\/news-room\/2024\/endo-2024-press-umapathysivam<\/a><\/p>\n https:\/\/www.medicalnewstoday.com\/articles\/higher-testosterone-levels-may-help-reduce-risk-of-type-2-diabetes-in-men-under-65<\/a><\/p>\n “…A new\u00a0study<\/a>\u00a0says higher levels of\u00a0testosterone<\/a>\u00a0can lower the risk of\u00a0type 2 diabetes<\/a>\u00a0for men 65 years or younger who are overweight or have\u00a0obesity<\/a><\/strong><\/span>. The study, which hasn\u2019t been published yet in a peer-reviewed journal, was presented today at\u00a0ENDO 2024,<\/a>\u00a0the Endocrine Society\u2019s annual meeting in Boston. Mahesh Umapathysivam<\/a>, a lead researcher from the University of Adelaide in Australia, said in a statement that the research team wanted to better understand the relationship between testosterone and type 2 diabetes risk across a range of testosterone levels. He said they also wanted to examine interactions between testosterone and different diabetes risk factors in midlife and in older men. \u201cA low blood testosterone concentration is an independent risk factor for developing type 2 diabetes, and high levels of testosterone appear protective against the development of type 2 diabetes<\/strong><\/span>,\u201d Umapathysivam said. The team examined data from the\u00a0MAILES Cohort<\/a>, a group of men ages 35 to 85 years living in urban Adelaide.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Another study that contradicts the pervasive dogma that higher T levels are a nightmare for aging males,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[661,285,1248,88,319,27,21],"class_list":["post-2531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","tag-androgen","tag-diabetes","tag-endocrine","tag-male","tag-obesity","tag-stress","tag-testosterone","wpcat-2-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/haidut.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/haidut.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/haidut.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haidut.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haidut.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/haidut.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2532,"href":"https:\/\/haidut.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2531\/revisions\/2532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/haidut.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haidut.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haidut.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}