Fast facts on testosterone

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Posted on 13-04-2023 12:12 AM

If you have low testosterone levels, it may mean that your body is unable to make enough testosterone. This could be

be cause your testes are not working properly, or be cause the pituitary gland in your brain is not telling your testes to make testosterone. Causes of low testosterone levels include: damage to your testicles — for example by an injury, undescended testes or an infection, such as mumps damage to your pituitary gland obe sity genetic disorders, such as klinefelter syndrome chronic health conditions, such as diabe tes and haemochromatosis some medicines and cancer treatments the ageing process some people use the term ‘andropause’ or 'male menopause' to refer to the decline in testosterone with ageing.

The idea to treat covid-19 by reducing testosterone received strong support in a new study led by david goldstein , phd, director of the institute for genomic medicine at columbia university, and xinchen wang, phd, a postdoctoral researcher at the institute. Using existing data on the effects of hundreds of drugs on human cells, the researchers sought to identify compounds that can regulate the expression of genes that encode key viral entry proteins. Their work showed that tmprss2 represented the most promising viral entry protein to target and that lowering testosterone would be the be st available option for lowering the expression of tmprss2.

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