Not Hair Loss News – Testosterone Products Double the Risk of Heart Attacks

“Testosterone replacements can increase the risk of serious heart and blood vessel problems, Health Canada says.”

The article is to the point and lists all of the common products that can kill you silently. I see patients every week who are taking testosterone supplements for a variety of reasons including: They test their testosterone levels and find it on the low side, they are weight lifters and think that they will be able to lift more weight, or they have erectile dysfunction and think that testosterone will cause them to have better sexual performance.

Remember Jim Fixx, the famous author of The Complete Book of Running who in his mid-thirties was 220 lbs and smoked 2 packs of cigarettes per day. He pioneered the role of exercise in keeping healthy, but died at the age of 52 of heart disease while Jack LaLanne, who died at the age of 96, added good healthy eating to his daily exercise routine. Women were complacent for years believing that their hormones protected them from heart disease (although some did take testosterone for better sexual performance), but for women who do not practice good eating and exercise, found that they were not immune from heart disease and may even be more prone to sudden death from heart attacks. Ask yourself, if you don’t believe in diet and daily good exercise routines, are you ready to die for that belief? As a side note to this article, when you take testosterone, it will accelerate any genetic male pattern balding that you might have.