Testosterone Treats Unexpected Diseases and Symptoms
Channel: BioBalance Healthcast
Date: 2021-10-25

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Testosterone treats many illnesses in addition to sexual dysfunction.  Most patients and doctors don’t associate testosterone with the anxiety and depression that occurs after age 40.  Depression is a direct side effect of low T.  T is a mood elevator and stimulates Seratonin production, improving mood in that way.  Many of our patients can decrease the dose of antidepressants or even go off their medications after they have been on T for more than 4 months.  I always ask my patients to ask their “depression doctor”, who prescribed the antidepressant, to help them wean off. A side note: I do not recommend decreasing or stopping antidepressants during the fall, because we live in the Midwest and there is very little sunlight at our latitude between September to February, so I ask that they don’t change their antidepressant during those months.  Remember testosterone if you develop depression after the age of 40.

Testosterone also treats anxiety in both men and women by lowering FSH and LH, the pituitary hormones that surge after T and Estradiol decrease with age.  Many men come in to see me for low T and ED, who have recently been prescribed Xanax or some other anti-anxiety drug that is not working for their anxiety.  However, when I treat them with testosterone pellets, they miraculously are cured of their anxiety!  Women generally have hot flashes from elevated FSH/LH, however some of them have anxiety as well.  Women are cured of their anxiety attacks, with T pellets plus or minus Estradiol.

Other conditions that are improved when I treat my patients of both sexes with T pellets is Insulin resistance, AODM, and weight gain.  T improves insulin resistance and increases the calorie burning in the muscles.  You burn most of your calories every day in your muscles and T facilitates the metabolic work in the muscle tissue.  With testosterone, you literally burn more calories by jut breathing (your Basal Metabolic Rate). T increases your muscle’s activity by burning more calories of fat and stabilizes your blood sugar.  Our patients lose fat, gain muscle mass, and become more insulin sensitive with T pellets.  Those with diabetes decrease their medication over time and have a lot more energy…the natural way…by activating their muscles!

Immune dysfunction occurs when you age and is why older people need a higher dosage of immunizations, and why they die of viruses that younger people don’t die of. Your immune system is controlled by your thymus gland which makes white cells called T killer cells, T helper cells that kill cancer cells and viruses.   B cells make antibodies. The thymus and its function is growth hormone and testosterone dependent.  As growth hormone and T decrease, the gland shrinks and by age 50 ,  and by age 60 it can’t be seen and stops doing its job of protecting us.  By taking testosterone, growth hormone is stimulated and the thymus gland grows and is active making these cells that protect us.  There is a peptide that stimulates the thymus for those people who don’t fully respond to Testosterone, called Thymosin alpha-1.  This is a communication peptide that stimulates the production of protective immune cells.  It has 
been around forever as a medication, but no one used it  because it doesn’t have a big drug company behind it…so it  is available at compounding pharmacies. The FDA has started to stamp it out across the US, for no apparent reason. It improves immunity to all infections.  In this time of pandemic, this drug should be applauded and not taken off the market!  What are they thinking?

Autoimmune diseases occur when your immune system, your T Cells and B Cells, become confused and instead of killing viruses and bacteria, attack your own healthy tissue.  This imbalance occurs secondary to a genetic weakness as well as exposure to infections that “look like” normal tissue.  Testosterone deficiency causes an unstable immune system and leaves the door open for autoimmune diseases. I was very surprised when my patients with autoimmune diseases like RA, Lupus, and Sarcoidosis, improved drastically after they got T for completely different indications!  I then researched this association between T and Autoimmune diseases and found that there is a lot of research that proves T is an excellent treatment and prevention for autoimmune diseases.