What is male hormone health guidance?

Male hormone health guidance is a systematic health support service that integrates endocrine assessment, symptom intervention, lifestyle adjustment, and risk prevention and control, focusing on the secretion patterns and related metabolic characteristics of androgen (core being testosterone) throughout the life cycle of men. The core goal is to maintain the dynamic balance of hormones and improve related multi-dimensional health performance such as energy, sexual function, mood, muscle synthesis, and bone density.

I just met a 37-year-old middle-level employee of a state-owned enterprise a while ago. After being promoted last year, he socialized until midnight every day. He lost almost 10 pounds of muscle in the past six months, and his stomach became round. He usually felt weak in his legs after standing in meetings for half an hour, and his married life became unmotivated. I bought it online. After taking several imported testicle-stimulating supplements for two months with no results, I checked my hormones and discovered that my total testosterone had just passed the passing mark, my free testosterone was less than 40% of the average level for men of the same age, and my estradiol exceeded the standard. This is a typical situation that requires standardized hormonal health guidance.

Don’t think that this guidance is as simple as “supplementing whatever is missing” and prescribing hormones. In fact, the indications for androgen supplementation in the industry have been controversial. One group believes that as long as the index is lower than the reference range and accompanied by clear discomfort symptoms, it can be quickly improved through exogenous supplementation. The other group insists that exogenous androgens will inhibit the function of the own secretory axis. Even if it is effective in the short term, it may aggravate problems such as testicular atrophy and sperm production disorders in the long term. Therefore, formal guidance will never prescribe hormones for you. To put it bluntly, the male hormone regulation system is like a sophisticated water supply network. Testosterone is the water in the water pipes. If you find that the water outlet at home is small and cannot come up, just pour water into the water pipes. You must first check whether the water factory has low water output (insufficient secretion of gonadotropins by the pituitary gland), the water pipes are blocked (metabolic disorders lead to excessive conversion and consumption of testosterone), or there is leakage in the home (chronic disease consumption). Blind injection of water may burst the water pipes, which may cause an increase in red blood cells and increase the risk of prostate hyperplasia.

There was a 25-year-old boy who secretly bought black market anabolic steroids for half a year in order to build muscles. When he arrived, his face was swollen like a steamed bun, his testicles were shrunk to the size of peanuts, and his sperm motility was almost zero. When we gave him guidance, we didn’t even dare to prescribe supplements. We first asked him to stop all illegal products. It took him more than three months to adjust his daily routine and diet with trace amounts of gonadotropin, and then he slowly recovered his testosterone secretion function.

When we usually give guidance, most of the users actually don’t need to take drugs at all. Like the 37-year-old middle-level person just mentioned, his problem is that his body fat rate is too high. The aromatase in fat converts most of the testosterone into estradiol. In addition, drinking and staying up late every day suppresses the function of the hypothalamus. Regarding the secretion function, we asked him to cut off half of his social activities, drink one less cup of milk tea every day, and do half-an-hour strength training three times a week to reduce his body fat rate to less than 20%. When he was reexamined three months later, he found that free testosterone had increased by 60%, and the problems of fatigue and low sexual desire were basically gone. Nowadays, many organizations boast of this service, saying that taking testosterone supplements can make you 20 years old again. In fact, it is completely exaggerated. The core of health guidance is to help you bring your own hormone levels to a reasonable range for your age. It is not to force a 50-year-old person to have a 20-year-old hormone level. This will increase the risk of cardiovascular and prostate diseases. What suits you is the best.