Supplements, Number two of the Seven

Supplements

Of the Seven Elements of a "Healthy Life Past 100" this is the one that is hardest to understand because there are parts that are changing as new research, based on reliable heavily scrutinized data, proves that old data, which was based on weak unreliable research, is inaccurate.

A good example about this is an article printed in the June 2015 Life Extension magazine. The article is written by Abraham Morgentaler, MD, FACS, who is an associate clinical professor of urology at Harvard Medical School and the founder of Men's Health Boston, a medical practice for male sexual and reproductive disorders.

Morgentaler found that there were benefits to testosterone therapy for men but he was worried that they would risk getting prostate cancer from the research of  Dr Charles Huggins. Higgins wrote an article in 1941 that cancers can be sensitive to hormonal manipulation. Through his research it seemed that testosterone therapy would greatly increase the odds of getting
prostate cancer. From that day on the medical profession took this to be a fact and testosterone therapy was abandoned. In the 1990's Morgentaler found that men who got prostate cancer had low levels of testosterone.

Harvard has a medical library that goes back to the 1800's so Morgentaler went down to the library and researched everything he could find on the basis for Dr Higgins findings. He found that what the medical profession was basing their procedures on for the last 60 years was based on the research on one man, there were three who started the project, but two were disqualified so everything was based on the results of one man, which really proved nothing.

Morgentaler continued to do testosterone therapy and got results that they were not expecting. Everyone knew that low testosterone affects men's sexual desire and performance but they didn't know what their research would also uncover. They found that the medication could make men feel more energetic, increase muscle strength and mass, decrease fat, strengthen bones, improve mood, and make men feel that their minds were sharper.

In May of 2011 Morgentaler and his colleagues published a report in the Journal of Urology about the effects of testosterone therapy on 13 men who had untreated prostate cancer. After 2.5 years of treatment none of the men showed any signs of the cancer progressing and in 54% of the biopsies they couldn't find any trace of cancer. We have to be careful not to jump to conclusive conclusions but it was the first time since 1941 that anyone had bothered to look at exactly what happens when they reconstructed the experiment.

So as we continue, we will find that we are still learning on many fronts.


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