A lot of people have low testosterone now, older people because they are on statins, or cholesterol lowering drugs. Our bodies make our sex hormones, testosterone and estrogens, from cholesterol. When you lower your cholesterol with these statins, your body is going to preferentially use that cholesterol for repair. That is what it does, it fixes things in your body that are damaged with cholesterol.
Every time your heart beats, your blood vessels expand and contract. This causes little micro tears in your blood vessels that are going on all the time. You body is using cholesterol to repair those.
When you are lowering that cholesterol level so low to get to that level that your doctor wants, or that the drug companies say you should have, your body is going to use that cholesterol for repair over making sex hormones (testosterone) out of it. You can survive with low testosterone. You can’t survive without this damage to your body being repaired. It is natural, it happens all the time, it is the way it’s supposed to work.
When you lower your cholesterol, your body is not making enough testosterone like it should from that cholesterol. So now your testosterone level goes down because you are on a statin and your body is using that cholesterol to repair itself.
Your cholesterol level needs to come back up. If you can’t keep your cholesterol level down with diet and exercise to get off that statin, you need to get your testosterone level back up. You need to take some supplemental testosterone. If you want to do that, go to MedicineCoach.com and click on that blue box that says, “Become a Client”
