College Station Chiropractor: Men - The Hormone Secret Many Doctors Don't Want You To Know

Men: The Hormone Secret Many Doctors Don't Want You To Know

There is a lot of talk about hormones nowdays. Lots of celebrities urging you to get on bio-identical hormones to revive your sex life, stamina, and general health.

There is a little secret that you never hear about.

Hormones never stay where you put them. Take this scenario. You are tired, and the joy of life has ebbed away. You are getting thick in the middle despite a good diet and exercise. You find a deficiency of testosterone by the lab test, and you start taking testosterone. You feel great for a while, then you notice the effect seems to be less and less, and eventually you notice that you have even more of the problems you started with.


What Happened? Well, testosterone levels are regulated by a number of body systems. The testosterone you were taking just got converted to estrogen by the aromatse enzyme. To make matters worse, your brain detected the increased testosterone you were taking, and gave instructions to your own cells to stop making testosterone. You just got a big hole in your testosterone bucket, and it is leaking down into estrogens

You now have a "normal" testosterone level, but your estrogen levels are now elevated, causing the same symptoms you had to begin with. You see, maybe the problem was not the hormones levels, but the activity of the enzymes and other regulatory systems that maintain hormone balance.

The real answer for you may be in a thorough thoughtful evaluation of the whole system of hormone control.

You may benefit from a careful functional medicine approach by a functional medicine natural methods doctor like a chiropractor in the College Station Bryan area who has experience and knowledge of seeing the whole picture.
3/8/2011 1:45:57 PM
David N. Bailey, DC, MPH
A board certified chiropractic orthopedist, I also have training in functional medicine. I also earned a Masters in Public Health from Texas A&M University Health Science Center School of Rural Public Health.
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