Whether men should be given testosterone after a certain age or whether doing so would be considered as malpractice is still a hotly debated issue among medical specialists in Austria. At leading professional conferences in other countries, however, the discussion tends to focus more on “when to start” and what the dose should be when it comes to hormonal regeneration.
It has been a known fact for some time that many esthetic and health problems related to aging are directly linked to hormone deficiencies and hence should logically be treated with well-thought-out substitution. This also applies to the spectrum of “burnout” disorders in persons over 30 years old, because “burnout” is merely a term describing a condition in which the endocrine glands become overworked and worn out from chronic stress.
The use of bioidentical hormones with molecular structures identical to those of the “real” hormones is important in a well-thought-out hormonal regeneration; as is the balancing of the substituted hormones with all other hormones in the body, as the latter are cybernetically linked with each other. For example, administering only testosterone to men or only estrogen to women can lead to hormonal imbalances, which can cause all kinds of side effects.
Obviously a hormonal regeneration must always take place under a medical specialist’s supervision, in order to ensure that there is no testicular shrinkage!
DDr. Heinrich, MD