Detecting the 'power' of female hormones in the male body

New research on female hormones in male bodies has been published by American scientists.

A recent study by Dr. Joel Finkelstein of Massachusetts General Hospital (USA) said that men also need female hormones estrogen to maintain sexual desire and avoid the risk of obesity.

Testosterone is the main sex hormone in men. The body of a man converts some of this hormone into estrogen (female hormone) and these two hormones will decline with age.

However, Dr. Joel Finkelstein, the study author, said: "Many people believe that" male menopause "(or decreased sexual desire) is due to the lack of male hormone testosterone, but in fact, it is related to female hormone estrogen ".

Dr. Joel Finkelstein and colleagues conducted research on 400 healthy male volunteers, aged between 20 and 50. Each month, they will be given injections to temporarily reduce testosterone hormone levels like pre-pubertal periods.

After that, volunteers will be given different testosterone gel doses to use. Half of volunteers are required to use other drugs to prevent testosterone from being converted into estrogen.

After 16 weeks, the researchers found that muscle size and muscle strength depend on testosterone, the amount of fat depends on the hormone estrogen. Both of these hormones are essential to maintaining "love" ability and performance . Besides, the amount of hormone estrogen in the male body has partly prevented obesity agents in them.

Scientists believe that this result reflects exactly as the study was conducted on mice before. Male rats often become fat and do not have much sexual desire when estrogen is not produced. Dr Finkelstein said: "The results have shown that men with high levels of estrogen will help boost their sexual ability."

However, scientists still conduct research to better understand the risk of adding hormone estrogen to the male body or testosterone depletion that will cause muscle and bone to decline, move slowly, poor memory, easy cardiovascular disease .