Most men and their doctors overlook estrogen and the importance it has in the male body, but with an alarming amount of research on it its time to start taking your estrogen, and more importantly your estradiol much more seriously. Below you will learn about the benefits and negatives of this hormone and how it relates to men along with what IMT does to make sure your covered. We got your back!
Even though androgens are the major sex steroids in men, their primacy in regulating the male skeletal remodeling system has been increasingly in question. Every day more direct and indirect evidence emerges suggesting that estrogens may also play a major role in male skeletal health. Recent data suggests that a threshold level of bioavailable estradiol is needed to prevent bone loss, and with aging an increasing percentage of aging men begin to fall below this level. The testes account for, at most, 15% of circulating estrogens in the male; the remaining 85% comes from peripheral aromatization of androgen precursors in different tissues, including bone.
CONCLUSION
The amount of testosterone required to maintain lean mass, fat mass, strength, and sexual function varied widely in men. Androgen deficiency accounted for decreases in lean mass, muscle size, and strength; estrogen deficiency primarily accounted for increases in body fat; and both contributed to the decline in sexual function. Our findings support changes in the approach to evaluation and management of hypogonadism in men. (Funded by the National Institutes of Health and others; ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT00114114 link
