testosterone-evidence of deliberate lies

[Guest guest]

This is in regard to testosterone (TRT) for women, and while it may

be intrinsically off-topic, the lengths to which the press will go to

further FDA/DEA's agenda of keeping the controlled substance,

testosterone, out of public hands, by convoluting research findings

is should make us all sit up and take note. This issue has a direct

bearing on the quality and length of the second half of our

collective male and female lives.

This abstract of a recent clinical study was spread far and wide

across the US and international medical communities. It was

published in newspapers and medical journals alike.

The conclusions of the press writer who " condensed " the researchers'

findings in this Australian study of testosterone and female libido

is as follows:

" MALE HORMONES NOT TIED TO WOMEN'S LIBIDO "

Reuters Health Tuesday, July 5, 2005

excerpt: " THE RESULTS CONTRADICT THE IDEA OF USING TESTOSTERONE TO

TREAT LOW SEXUAL DESIRE DISORDER, THE RESEARCHERS CONCLUDE. "

source: Journal of the American Medical Association, July 6, 2005

Naturally I was frothing at the mouth (figuatively speaking!) at this

ridiculous assertion. So much that I paid for the actual research

report (note this is the only means of access to the full-text of the

article as written by the researchers themselves).

HERE IS WHAT RESEARCHERS ACTUALLY FOUND AND CONCUDED:

excerpts:

" OUR RESULTS ARE NOT IN CONFLICT WITH TESTOSTERONE BEING USED

PHARMACOLOGICALLY TO TREAT HYPOACTIVE SEXUAL DESIRE DISORDER (low

testosterone).... Rather, our data, taken together with what is

already known about the intracrine physiology, suggest that sex

steroids influence female sexual function, but that there is no serum

androgen level that defines female androgen insufficiency ....and

levels of these hormones should not be used for the purpose of

diagnosing androgen insufficiency in women. "

What the study actually did was to verify one of my pet peeves:

Hormonal levels taken from blood tests are not a useful indicator of

a patient's condition. Hormone testing is an inaccurate and useless

diagnostic tool.

Of course most medical doctors are unlikely to have read the full

text. It is more likely they read the abstract, just as the general

public did. Thus they will base an unjustified aversity to HRT on

this short inaccurate synopsis and will continue to adminsiter

useless hormone tests that reveal nothing.

BEWARE my brothers! This sort of lying media campaign against TRT in

women is targeting your TRT!

source for above excerpts:

Access via PURCHASE ACCESS Vol. 294 No. 1, July 6, 2005

http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/294/1/91

Circulating Androgen Levels and Self-reported Sexual Function in

Women

R. , MD, PhD; L. on, MD; Donath, MA;

Robin J. Bell, MD, PhD JAMA. 2005;294:91-96.

I can send the full report to anyone who is interested (seeing as it

is OT probably no one is interested).