Can Testosterone and Estrogen Lower Cancer Risk? 🤔

Name: Can Testosterone and Estrogen Lower Cancer Risk? 🤔
Uploaded: 2024-02-08T21:00:30+00:00
Duration: 26 s
Channel: Dr. Charles Mok
Description: Short excerpt from a YouTube video by Dr. Charles Mok discussing studies that combine testosterone and estrogen for hormone therapy. The speaker states…

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Short excerpt from a YouTube video by Dr. Charles Mok discussing studies that combine testosterone and estrogen for hormone therapy. The speaker states typical dosing (testosterone ~1 mg per pound of body weight; estrogen ~3–6 mg) and reports that adding testosterone to estrogen was associated with about a 40% reduction in breast cancer events compared with taking nothing.

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About 1 milligram per pound (of body weight).

About 3 to 6 milligrams.

About a 40% reduction in breast cancer events.

Other studies that have emerged since I wrote the book have been using combinations of testosterone and estrogen, and again, we give a bigger dose of testosterone than estrogen. The testosterone dose is usually about a milligram per pound, and the estrogen dose is usually about 3 to 6 milligrams, a much lower dose because again, there's more testosterone in your body than estrogen. What they found was about a 40% reduction in breast cancer events when we used testosterone in addition to estrogen versus taking nothing.