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Low T : - ketchim - 04-28-2014
Low Testosterone, or Low T. ;D
The syndrome even has its own website, isitlowt.com :
funded by the pharmaceutical company Abbvie. Men are encouraged to take a Low T "quiz"
asking them questions like :
"Are you sad and / or grumpy ?
Do you have a lack of energy ?
Are you falling asleep after dinner ?
Re: Low T : - ketchim - 04-28-2014
Prescriptions for testosterone drugs have shot up around the world over the last decade.
But there is growing concern that they are being over-used and may not be safe.
Re: Low T : - ketchim - 04-28-2014
Either an epidemic of lethargy is sweeping men around the world,
or the message from the pharmaceutical industry is getting through. :-[
Since 2001, prescriptions in the US have more than tripled :
to an estimated 3% of men over 40 - 1.7 million men.
In the UK, prescriptions roughly doubled over the same period, and the global market
for the drugs has increased 12-fold.
Re: Low T : - ketchim - 04-28-2014
comedian Stephen Colbert jokes, Low T is :
"a pharmaceutical-company-recognised condition affecting millions of men
with low testosterone, previously known as getting older". ::LOL::
Re: Low T : - ketchim - 04-28-2014
"Testosterone levels affect quality of life - that is very clear indeed,"
says Dr Hugh Jones, Professor of Andrology at Sheffield University.
"If you talk to the patients that I have on testosterone they are doing more.
It's happened several times that people who like dancing couldn't dance
and they can dance again."
