Long-Term Health Risks Of Low Testosterone

Name: Long-Term Health Risks Of Low Testosterone
Uploaded: 2024-06-19T16:00:21+00:00
Duration: 43 s
Channel: Dr. Charles Mok
Description: This content was created by Dr. Charles Mok. This content was uploaded by Dr. Charles Mok. This is an excerpt from a YouTube video titled "Long-Term…

19 Jun 2024 · 1 min

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This content was created by Dr. Charles Mok. This content was uploaded by Dr. Charles Mok. This is an excerpt from a YouTube video titled "Long-Term Health Risks Of Low Testosterone" (created 2024-06-19). A single speaker (labeled SPEAKER A) presents a health/medical explanation about how chronically low testosterone in men is associated with higher long-term risks: more metastatic cancers later in life, increased infections like pneumonia and influenza around the 70s, and higher rates of Alzheimer’s/dementia in the 80s, as well as greater cerebrovascular (stroke) and cardiovascular (heart attack) disease. The speaker also notes that a man in his 40s with low testosterone is not necessarily at higher immediate risk for Alzheimer’s unless the low level is maintained long-term.

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Men in their 60s had lower high testosterone. They had same rates of cancer, but once they got to seven years old, men with lower testosterone got many more metastatic cancers. Infections such as pneumonia and influenza occurred more often than men with low testosterone at about the 70 year old range. And then for Alzheimer's and dementia it was in the 80s. So we can't say that a man with low testosterone in 40 is going to get more incidence of Alzheimer's than a man with normal testosterone or higher testosterone level. We can say if that man maintains a low testosterone level for a long period of time, they're going to have more instances of Alzheimer's disease, infections like influenza and pneumonia, cerebrovascular disease such as a stroke, cardiovascular disease such as a heart attack, and more cancers, particularly metastatic cancers.