Men given 12 or more injections of testosterone per year were 33% LESS likely to get prostate cancer during a 3-year follow-up than men not on testosterone replacement according to data from 189,491 men aged 40-60 years-old.

Men using testosterone gel 330 days or more per year were 42% LESS likely to get prostate cancer than men not on testosterone replacement.

This is the exact opposite of what was believed for many years.

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Men over the age of 65 given testosterone gel were less likely to be hospitalized during the next year compared to men who were given a placebo according to a new study.

Seventeen percent (17%) of men (68 out of 394) given testosterone were hospitalized during the one year study compared to 20% of those (78 out of 394) given placebo.

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Men over the age of 65 given testosterone gel were less likely to die during the next year compared to men who were given a placebo according to a new study.

0.76 percent of men (3 out of 394) given testosterone died during the one year study compared to 1.78% of those (7 out of 394) given placebo.

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Older men, who on average were 61-years-old, who were testosterone-deficient, and who were given injections of testosterone, lost an average of 35 pounds according to a study presented on May 9th, 2012 at the 19th European Congress on Obesity in Lyon, France. Read the entire article | Email this article

Older men, who on average were 61-years-old, who were testosterone-deficient, and who were given injections of testosterone, lost an average of 35 pounds and reduced their waist by an average of 4 inches, dropping from from 42 inches to 38 inches according to a study presented on May 9th, 2012 at the 19th European Congress on Obesity in Lyon, France. Read the entire article | Email this article

Older men, who on average were 61-years-old, who were testosterone-deficient, and who were given injections of testosterone, lost an average of 35 pounds and showed improvements in blood pressure, blood sugar levels, triglyceride levels and LDL cholesterol according to a study presented on May 9th, 2012 at the 19th European Congress on Obesity in Lyon, France. Read the entire article | Email this article

Older men, who on average were 61-years-old, who were testosterone-deficient, and who were given injections of testosterone, lost an average of 35 pounds and showed no evidence of increase risk of prostate cancer according to a study presented on May 9th, 2012 at the 19th European Congress on Obesity in Lyon, France. Read the entire article | Email this article

Older men, who on average were 61-years-old, who were testosterone-deficient, and who were given injections of testosterone, lost an average of 35 pounds according to a study presented on May 9th, 2012 at the 19th European Congress on Obesity in Lyon, France. The same researchers had previously found that low testosterone is common in obese men, especially those with diabetes. Read the entire article | Email this article

Older men, who on average were 61-years-old, who were testosterone-deficient, and who were given injections of testosterone, lost an average of 35 pounds according to a study presented on May 9th, 2012 at the 19th European Congress on Obesity in Lyon, France. However, beware that too much testosterone can cause you to GAIN weight. One doctor told me about a man who came to see him who had been given testosterone by another doctor, and who had gained 35 lbs, but he found his testosterone levels were TWICE as high as they should have been. So, while testosterone replacement may help older men lose weight, too much testosterone may cause weight gain. Read the entire article | Email this article

At the time of his death at the age of 86, Mark Starr, MD's father, who 6 years earlier, had had an enlarged heart due to congestive, had shrunk back to normal size and a coronary catheter showed he had minimal atherosclerosis after being placed on desiccated thyroid and testosterone at the age of 80-years-old notes Mark Starr, MD notes in this audio clip from a speech he gave at a 2007 Orthomolecular Conference.

Dr. Starr is the author of the wonderful book Hypothyroidism Type 2: The Epidemic. Read the entire article | Email this article

Giving oral testosterone plus a nutritional drink containing 475 calories per day eliminated hospitalization in older, under-nourished adults according to a study from Australia. Read the entire article | Email this article

"It is known that BMI is inversely proportional to serum total testosterone concentrations; low serum SHBG levels [sex hormone binding globulin] in obesity contribute to the low serum total testosterone," according to a new paper from UCLA.

"Recent studies show that BMI is also inversely proportional to free testosterone concentration."

"The characteristic low serum testosterone concentrations observed in obese men are also present in men with the metabolic syndrome and type 2 diabetes mellitus." Read the entire article | Email this article

"[Low testosterone in males] is a clinical condition that affects a significant number of men in the United States and can affect up to 50% of men diagnosed with type 2 diabetes," according to a new paper from Solvay Pharmaceuticals which analyzed data from 26 studies. Read the entire article | Email this article

LARGE DOSES OF TESTOSTERONE increase muscle mass and strength in both exercised and non-exercised men, but has no effect on fat according to a study in The New England Journal of Medicine. Read the entire article | Email this article