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re: Friend had a heart attack - doctor says its from testosterone shots
Posted on 6/27/16 at 9:57 am to Hog on the Hill
Posted on 6/27/16 at 9:57 am to Hog on the Hill
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Testosterone fuels prostate cancer growth
The historical associations are mainly correlations not causation
The relationship is complex. The most current model is linked below.
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Prostate growth is exquisitely sensitive to variations in androgen concentrations at very low concentrations, but becomes insensitive to changes in androgen concentrations at higher levels.
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There are few bold people (the author of the paper I linked being one of them) treating hypogonad men with active prostate cancer (on surveillance regimens) with TRT (with no progression of cancer)
The best analogy is using a wilted plant. Water (testosterone) may stimulate the plant (prostate) to grow. At some point further watering the plant will not cause it to grow into the size of a Sequoa (cancer)
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