Category Archives: Testosterone

Abstract and Introduction Abstract In recent years, testosterone replacement therapy (TRT) has received significant media attention, and the rate of testosterone use has increased notably. A reported association between testosterone use and increased occurrence of myocardial infarction and stroke prompted the FDA to issue a safety bulletin in 2014 Continue reading →

Inovio Pharmaceuticals breached a contract to supply needle-free injectors after learning they would be used to inject testosterone by transgender men, according to a lawsuit filed Nov. 1 in San Diego Superior Court. BLS Pharma says Inovio was cooperative until it learned the biomedical companys ZetaJet injectors would be used by the transgender men, instead of just men with insufficient testosterone, a condition called male hypogonadism. Continue reading →

American doubles star Abigail Spears has been provisionally suspended by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) after traces of banned substances, including testosterone, were found in her doping probe. The 38-year-old failed the test while participating in the 2019 US Open, with traces of prasterone (DHEA), testosterone and metabolites being detected in her urine sample. READ MORE:No love lost: Female tennis players BRAWL on the court over harsh post-match handshake (VIDEO) Prasterone and testosterone are Non-Specified substances, which are prohibited under category S1 of the 2019 WADA Prohibited List (Anabolic Agents), and therefore are also prohibited under the Programme. Continue reading →

Advancements in medical technologies have brought new challenges to sports regulators, especially the International Federations. One of the newest battlefields is transgender athletes. Back in February, now-former marathon world-record holder Paula Radcliffe (GBR) sounded the alarm quite clearly, telling the BBC: Right now, transgender women are not a threat to female sport Continue reading →

Nike will look into runner Mary Cain's allegations of abuse while she was part of Alberto Salazar's training group. The runner says it reached the point where she started having suicidal thoughts and cutting herself. Continue reading →

Analysis: most commonly associated with cheating athletes, steroids occur naturally in our bodies and play an important role in modern medicine By Dipali Ahuja, University of Limerick; Laurie Ryan, University of Limerick and Emer Browne, TCD "And the winner is!" - or is it? The prevalence of doping at major sporting events such as the Olympics has called into question the rightful winner of many competitions. In the 2012 European Athletic Championships women's 1500 metres final, the first, second, third and fourth placed athletes subsequently faced bans for testing positive for using performance enhancing substances. Continue reading →

For a society striving for equal opportunity and freedom to act as one pleases, common values have fallen into the pit of unequivocal standards. The general characteristics of male and female behavior are no longer held on the same platform and terms like hyper-masculinity are blacklisted while feminism seems to be on an exponential growth curve. However, masculinity and femininity are two sides of the same coin. Continue reading →

November 10 2019, 12:01am,The Sunday Times David Walsh Shane Sutton, the former head coach at Team Sky and one-time performance director at British Cycling, could not have been much amused by the discussion that took place at the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) hearing in Manchester two days ago. According to Mary ORourke, the QC representing defendant Dr Richard Freeman in a fit-to-practise case, the reason her client ordered 30 sachets of Testogel (testosterone) in 2011 was to treat Suttons erectile dysfunction. Forget for a moment that testosterone is not something any reputable physician would prescribe for erectile dysfunction and consider this conversation from Suttons point of view Continue reading →

Testosterone is the main male sex hormone. It plays a key role in male development, and low levels can affect sexual function, mood, energy levels, hair growth, bone health, and more (1, 2). Levels of this hormone naturally decline with age, with studies suggesting that hypogonadism, a condition in which the body doesnt produce enough testosterone, affects 39% of men aged 45 and over in the United States (3) Continue reading →

Testosterone is the primary male hormone, and plays an important role in establishing and maintaining typical male characteristics, such as body hair growth, muscle mass, sexual desire, and erectile function, and contributes to a host of other normal physiologic processes in the body. The primary systemic treatment for prostate cancer, androgen deprivation therapy (ADT), lowers testosterone and causes side effects related to reversing all of the normal functions of testosterone. Although most men may experience only a few of these symptoms, the list of potential effects of testosterone loss is long: hot flashes, decreased sexual desire, loss of bone density and increased fracture risk (osteoporosis), erectile dysfunction, fatigue, increased risk of diabetes and heart attacks, weight gain, decreased muscle mass, anemia, and memory loss Continue reading →