osteoporosis

Many physicians that prescribe testosterone use an “estrogen blocker”  (arimidex or chrysin) to reduce the peripheral conversion of testosterone into the hormone estrogen.    They do this because they claim high levels of estrogen in men can adversely affect the prostate gland.  What they fail to realize is that estrogen in men plays a critical role in preventing bone loss, preventing Alzheimer’s disease and dementia and also reducing the risk of cardiovascular disease.   There is not one human study that shows estrogen in men is harmful.  To the contrary I can produce 50 studies showing estrogens protective effects on