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Favorable Article on Testosterone Therapy and Pushback
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<blockquote data-quote="Jinzang" data-source="post: 158382" data-attributes="member: 12925"><p>The Guardian did a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/sep/09/my-energy-is-back-how-testosterone-replacement-therapy-is-changing-mens-lives" target="_blank">very favorable article on testosterone therapy </a>which surprised me:</p><p></p><p>“Despite my medical training, I bought into the cultural narrative that with a busy lifestyle, these symptoms are nothing more than normal ageing,” he says. A GP wrongly concluded that Vossen’s symptoms were just part and parcel of normal life. It was only after spending seven months fruitlessly doing more exercise, improving his diet and getting more sleep that Vossen sought a second opinion. “I had severely low testosterone,” he says. “I was producing about half the level I should have been.” Within three to four months of taking testosterone replacement therapy (TRT), Vossen was back to his old self.</p><p></p><p>The article was so favorable that it got <a href="https://endocrinologyblog.org/2019/09/09/misleading-medical-reporting-in-the-media-over-diagnosis-of-low-testosterone-levels-in-men/" target="_blank">pushback from the Society for Endocrinology</a>:</p><p></p><p>This article published in the Guardian addresses the important issue of treating hypogonadism. However, we are concerned that the article will (inadvertently) serve as an advertisement for “fringe” private medical healthcare services that contradict the advice and experience of qualified NHS specialists, who have specifically trained in hormone medicine (endocrinology), with no platform offered to provide a more informed viewpoint.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jinzang, post: 158382, member: 12925"] The Guardian did a [URL='https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/sep/09/my-energy-is-back-how-testosterone-replacement-therapy-is-changing-mens-lives']very favorable article on testosterone therapy [/URL]which surprised me: “Despite my medical training, I bought into the cultural narrative that with a busy lifestyle, these symptoms are nothing more than normal ageing,” he says. A GP wrongly concluded that Vossen’s symptoms were just part and parcel of normal life. It was only after spending seven months fruitlessly doing more exercise, improving his diet and getting more sleep that Vossen sought a second opinion. “I had severely low testosterone,” he says. “I was producing about half the level I should have been.” Within three to four months of taking testosterone replacement therapy (TRT), Vossen was back to his old self. The article was so favorable that it got [URL='https://endocrinologyblog.org/2019/09/09/misleading-medical-reporting-in-the-media-over-diagnosis-of-low-testosterone-levels-in-men/']pushback from the Society for Endocrinology[/URL]: This article published in the Guardian addresses the important issue of treating hypogonadism. However, we are concerned that the article will (inadvertently) serve as an advertisement for “fringe” private medical healthcare services that contradict the advice and experience of qualified NHS specialists, who have specifically trained in hormone medicine (endocrinology), with no platform offered to provide a more informed viewpoint. [/QUOTE]
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