Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
When Gary Wittert began looking for tubby male baby boomers to take part in a clinical trial last month, he got 800 volunteers in one day. The draw: free testosterone injections.
Wittert, a professor of medicine at the University of Adelaide, and his colleagues suspect the sex hormone known to increase libido and musculature could also help prevent a form of diabetes that tends to strike later in life and afflicts more than 330 million people worldwide.
The steroid, which cyclist Lance Armstrong admitted to using in winning seven Tour de France titles, could go from being popular among men ?looking to spice up their sex lives? to becoming a mainstream therapy if the trial, the largest test of testosterone?s potential to fight diabetes, shows positive results, said Stuart Roberts, a health-care analyst with Bell Potter Securities in Sydney.
http://www.delawareonline.com/artic...erone-may-help-fight-diabetes-baby-boomer-men
Wittert, a professor of medicine at the University of Adelaide, and his colleagues suspect the sex hormone known to increase libido and musculature could also help prevent a form of diabetes that tends to strike later in life and afflicts more than 330 million people worldwide.
The steroid, which cyclist Lance Armstrong admitted to using in winning seven Tour de France titles, could go from being popular among men ?looking to spice up their sex lives? to becoming a mainstream therapy if the trial, the largest test of testosterone?s potential to fight diabetes, shows positive results, said Stuart Roberts, a health-care analyst with Bell Potter Securities in Sydney.
http://www.delawareonline.com/artic...erone-may-help-fight-diabetes-baby-boomer-men