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Mr. Cogburn: Read the TESTOSTERONE SYNDROME by Eugene Shippen, M.D. Let me quote an excerpt. "Testoserone deficiency has been an unrecognized syndrome that impacts every sinew and cell in the body. It is powerfully linked to nearly every major degenerative disease. Use of this remarkable healing hormone could reverse suffering and prevent early death. Test. decline is at the core of male menopause. In women, there is an explosion of in-your-face symptoms, while men's very similar symptoms sneak in the back door unexpectedly like a thief in the night. Too often, loss of energy, ambition, sexual drive, and a host of minor symptons ar written off as 'burnout' or depression. Women, meanwhile, have already learned that hormone replacement results in reversal of the physcial changes of menopause. Men, confronted by an information vacuum, need to make the same discovery." In my husband's practice, he replaces many men with test. supplementation. What a huge diffenence! (he and I are replaced with test. supplementation also.) I am not disputing the fact that older men become accomplished lovers....BUT physically they decline due to lesser and lesser Test. levels. We want our male patient test. levels in the range that they had in their late teens to early twenties for optimal health. (they supplement with levels of a 17 y/o for men who have heart disease and diabetes in Europe with good results) Consequently, their lovemakeing, on a physical scale, improves dramatically. Jane

Mr. Cogburn: Read the TESTOSTERONE SYNDROME by Eugene Shippen, M.D

Every 'therapy' and every 'syndrome' has some book written about it by a proponent of the idea. There are similar books with selected scientific references in other popular ideas such as "systemic yeast", "multiple chemical sensitivities" ect. ad nauseum. There is little argument to be made with the "true believers" but others on the fence do well to be cautioned about the faddish movements which seem to occur as often in medicine as anything else.

physically they decline due to lesser and lesser Test. levels

No question we all decline with time. The idea that the decline in men is a result of decreased testosterone levels, though, is unproven. I would not dispute that giving testosterone to men has certain effects that they may like, but there are clearly dangers as well. Further, because an effect is produced does not mean that there was a 'deficiency' as I noted earlier with reference to amphetamines.

For that matter, I just gotta have my morning coffee. Does that mean that I am caffeine deficient?