My experience with Andractim

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The reason why Andractim is not available to us here in the US has always been

an enigma

to me. This product is esentially androstanalone, and Andractim has been

approved by

the French, German, and British equivalents of our FDA for the treatment of Low

Testosterone for quite a few years. The main company producing Andractim or

Gelovit is

based in France. If this medication is good enough for those three modern

countries, then

why is it not good enough or safe enough for us Americans. This is more of the

FDA's

insanity and their taking away from the American people legitimate treatment

alternatives

due to the big business $$$.

Andractim is great. If i could get it all the time, it would be my favorite

topical HRT. No

aromatization. It immediately starts to elilminate fat deposits that come about

due to high

levels of E, and it does rev up the libido and helps with ED. One down side of

Andractim/

DHT is that it has a shorter half life than does plain T once in the body.

While DHT is not nearly as anabolic as plain T, it is much more androgenic. Due

to this

fact, Andractim or DHT will bring about the development of secondary sexual

characteristics much quicker than does T. It is also used to prevent and to

correct minor

cases of gynocomastia.

Andractim comes in 80gm tubes, and it is a 2.5% concentration. For comparision,

Androgel is a 1% concentration. Each tube of Andractim or Gelovit comes with a

plastic

doseing device. This device has a two indented sections that run length wise on

the

plastic stick. The user then squezes the andractim into the intended section or

sections to

obtain the proper dose. It is very simple, and due to the fact that packaging

is kept to a

minimum, it should be considerably cheaper than androgel. Also, i was not able

to find

any sort of trademark or patented gel delivery system with regard to andractim,

so that

will make it cheaper to make and to sell underliciense.

Most US doctors have bought into the " DHT scare " . That being DHT will make you

bald

and have prostate problems. So they put such patients on DHT blockers, and next

thing

you know you have men with ED, and what do you know--they have another drug just

for

you (viagra, cilais ect) that you likely would not have needed had you not

started taking

the BPH medication. And the real clincher is that most doctors use the DHT

blockers

without taking a single blood test to see if the patient has high E or has

excess DHT.

However, as I and other posters have mentioned, there is considerable research

coming

out from the European medical community that shows that high levels of E2 are

actually to

blame for a great deal of the BPH and prostitis.

Here is an interesting factoid about the FDA and members of Congress and the

Senate.

Many members from both of these legislative bodies are privy to all the big

anticipated

ground breaking drug releases before these products hit the market. Due to some

" interesting loop holes " your congressman or senator can then use this

unreleased drug

knowlege to buy up all the stock he or she can afford to with this insider

trading knowlege

prior to the release of said drug, and then make outrageous profits.

For you and I as well as Martha , this would be called insider trading

and we would

be open to criminal charges. However, your legislator is immune from any

charges. We

have to stop this. The Senators, Congressmen, and Cabinet officials who are

privy to all

the FDA and major drug companies inside info, should not be able to buy stocks

relative

to the future drug products they know about.

In short, if Andractim is good enough for the Germans, the British, the French,

and the

Japanese, it is good enough for us Americans. To show how " ipotent " and

incompetent the

FDA is, take a look at all the SSRI antidepressants. The sexual side effects

from these

drugs far and away exceeds the rates of occurance reported to the FDA. The FDA

never

questioned these findings. However, hey now you are more depressed due to ED

and

arrousal problems so the SSRI is a wash, and now you end up taking viagra and

wellbutrin

to counter what the SSRI has done.

Once again this appears to be more of a business decision rather than a medical

treatment

efficacy decision.

SB