What is the reason for the warning about male hormone health risks?

To put it bluntly, the essence of male hormone health risk warning is that the metabolic homeostasis of androgens with testosterone as the core is broken. Whether it is insufficient total secretion, insufficient activity, or abnormalities in metabolic pathways, it will trigger a series of compensatory signals in the body to alert you in advance.

Liu, a 38-year-old Internet programmer I met a while ago, is the most typical example. He has been unable to sleep for more than half a year. After two years in the gym, his muscle girth has shrunk. He can’t even get excited about his previously regular life as a couple. At first, he thought he was working overtime. It wasn’t until his work unit checked for hormones that his total testosterone level was 40% lower than the normal range for men of the same age. He realized that the previous discomforts were all red lights of hormones.

When it comes to this, some people will definitely think, isn't this a normal manifestation of getting older? In fact, academic circles have always had different tendencies in determining this cause. One group believes that men’s testosterone levels naturally decrease by 1% to 2% every year after the age of 30, and that hormonal risk warnings after the age of 40 are an inevitable result of aging. The other group believes that more and more young men in their early 20s are experiencing similar problems. Age is not the core cause at all, but is all caused by bad living habits.

Think about it, many young people now have a bulging stomach after a meal of high-sugar and high-fat takeout. The aromatase in the fat will directly convert androgens into estrogen. The fatter the fatter, the lower the androgens, and the less energetic they will be. It is a vicious cycle.； And staying up until two or three o'clock every day to go to bed, which can't even guarantee 6 hours of deep sleep. You must know that the peak synthesis of testosterone is in the deep sleep stage. Even the prime time for synthesis is occupied by working overtime and checking mobile phones. How can there be enough hormones for the body? Not to mention those sales and operations people who are overwhelmed by KPIs every day. The pressure is so great that they can't even eat. Cortisol remains high for a long time, which is equivalent to putting a direct brake on the synthesis of hormones. It would be strange if there is no problem. Oh, yes, there are also those office workers who sit for 10 hours without moving, wearing tight pants and carrying their mobile phones in their trouser pockets against their thighs. The local temperature is one or two degrees higher than the normal body temperature for a long time. The secretion function of the testicles is affected, which will naturally trigger an early warning.

Of course, not all early warnings are due to lifestyle habits. I once met a 27-year-old young man who did not stay up late and was not fat. His testosterone level was as low as that of a postmenopausal woman. After a checkup, it was discovered that he had a microadenoma in the pituitary gland, which affected the secretion of gonadotropin. For this pathological cause, adjusting his daily routine will definitely be useless. The original disease must be solved first.

Nowadays, when many people encounter hormone warnings, their first reaction is to randomly supplement impotence folk prescriptions. On the contrary, the more supplements they take, the more confusing they become. In fact, whether it is low-dose hormone supplementation by Western medicine or syndrome differentiation and conditioning by formal Chinese medicine, there are corresponding suitable groups. There is no need to argue who is right and who is wrong. Only what suits you is useful. To put it bluntly, most of the time, hormonal warnings are not serious problems. They are just small notes sent by the body to remind you that it is time to take a rest and adjust your living conditions. If you find out the cause early and make timely adjustments, most of them can be brought back to normal levels. If you are afraid that you will not take it seriously and wait until metabolic disorders, bone density decreases, or even reproductive functions are affected, then the gains will outweigh the losses.