|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
[Diagnostic and Functional Tests]
The Male Hormone Profile is a noninvasive salivary assessment of the daily circadian activity of bioavailable testosterone. This profile provides insights into a wide range of disorders, from reduced libido and muscle mass to cardiovascular disease and osteoporosis.
With advancing age, testicular function often declines and levels of free bioavailable testosterone plummet. By the time a man reaches age 50, his bioavailable levels of testosterone may be half their youthful levels.
Testosterone powerfully influences emotional well-being and cognition, sexual function, muscle mass and strength, energy, cardiovascular health, bone integrity, and cognitive ability throughout a man’s life. As a result, deficiencies in testosterone can result in a wide array of symptoms and disorders. Because of testosterone’s synergistic impact on immune, metabolic, and inflammatory functions in the body, imbalances in the hormone may be found in a diverse array of health disorders, ranging from rheumatoid arthritis, heart disease, insulin resistance, and AIDS, to obesity, osteoporosis, and prostate cancer.
Because testosterone imbalances are often not considered in some of these disorders, and because clinical symptoms of male andropause can be subtle, a chronic androgen deficiency often goes undetected. Accurate evaluation of testosterone levels is invaluable in determining a contributory role for testosterone imbalances in chronic illness and the degenerative decline associated with aging.
The Male Hormone Profile offers a circadian analysis of testosterone secretion, utilizing four saliva samples collected at morning, noon, afternoon, and evening. Unlike total serum measurement of testosterone, salivary assessment has the advantage of reflecting only the unbound, bioavailable fraction of hormone.
The Male Hormone Profile can help in the customized treatment to help prevent degenerative processes associated with male andropause.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Your gateway to good health.
|
|
|