What are the symptoms of male hormonal health?

In fact, "symptoms" are mostly used to refer to the abnormal feelings caused by diseases. When male hormones (the core is testosterone) are at a healthy level, the most direct manifestation is that the entire person's energy, emotion, body metabolism and physiological functions are in a state of relaxation and coordination, with no obvious feeling of lag or overdraft.

I met a 42-year-old mid-level company manager two years ago. At that time, he always said that he slept eight hours a day, but he was still groggy when he arrived at the company. I exercised regularly three times a week, and after half a year, my overall condition is obviously different. When I met him last week, he said that he had just driven his family to the northwest, and he didn’t feel tired after driving for seven or eight hours. He could also play basketball with his son for an hour after get off work. This is actually a typical sign that his hormones have returned to a healthy level.

Many people think that hormonal health requires beards, thick chest hair, and obvious muscles. In fact, academic circles have always had different views on this. The amount of body hair is related to the sensitivity of the hair follicles to androgens. I met a 27-year-old young man whose testosterone levels were normal. He is in the middle to high position, but he is born with little body hair and even a few sparse beards. This does not affect his normal exercise and life at all. On the contrary, many people blindly supplement androgen in pursuit of so-called "masculinity". In the end, their own hormone secretion is disordered, and the gain outweighs the gain.

Compared with appearance, daily feelings are actually more reference. You will not be depressed or irritable for no reason, nor will you feel unmotivated all day long even though you have had enough rest. I used to have a friend who works in the Internet. He worked on projects for four consecutive months last year. He had to play two games a week. During that time, he didn’t even want to touch his sneakers. His girlfriend called him out to eat because he was annoyed. When he checked, he found that his free testosterone had almost dropped to the lower limit of the normal value. After more than two months of adjustment, he even posted a video of his goal on WeChat last week, and his conversations were much more intimate than before.

Physiological functions are originally the core part of androgen regulation. In a healthy state, long-term loss of sexual desire or abnormal erection will not occur. Of course, it does not mean that the stronger the sexual desire, the better. If the sexual desire is so high that it completely affects normal work and life, it is a sign of hormone disorder. There is also a metabolic aspect. If you do not deliberately change your diet and reduce exercise, and your body fat rate suddenly increases for no reason, especially if the fat on your belly increases quickly, you should also be careful about whether your androgen levels have dropped. After all, testosterone is involved in regulating fat distribution. When your hormones are healthy, your weight will not fluctuate significantly for no reason.

Nowadays, many fitness bloggers advocate that "the more muscles you have, the higher your testosterone will be" and "leg training can promote testicles." In fact, there are clinical studies showing that as long as people are not overly obese or severely underweight, people within the normal body fat range, even if their muscle mass is not outstanding, as long as their testosterone levels are in the normal range, they are in a healthy state of hormones. There is no need to force yourself to overload training to increase testosterone levels. On the contrary, overtraining will also depress testosterone levels in the short term, which is not worth the gain.

I usually encounter a lot of people labeling themselves randomly based on the symptoms on the Internet. If you really want to make an accurate judgment, it is most reliable to go to the hospital to do six sex hormone tests. If you make random guesses, you will easily disrupt your own stable hormone balance and cause problems.