Overweight men are more likely than normal weight to have low levels of the hormone
Losing weight may help overweight men with low testosterone to increase their hormone levels, new research has found.
Overweight men are more likely to have low testosterone levels, the study, involving nearly 900 middle-aged Irish men overweight and prediabetes. People with prediabetes have blood glucose levels abnormally high, but levels are still not high enough to be considered diabetes.
The men were assigned to one of three treatments. One group was told to eat a diet with less fat and calories and to make 150 minutes of exercise a week, a second group took metformin, a diabetes drug, and the third group took a placebo.
Among the men in the group of healthy lifestyle, the rate of low testosterone levels decreased from 20 to 11 percent after one year. The low testosterone level did not change in the group of diabetes drug or the placebo. Read more …







