What can I expect from Male Hormone Profile?
This complete profile analyses the range of hormones that affect everay aspect of a mna's health and wellness. Everything from energy, strength, concentration, mood, libido, to muscle strength and bone health is dependent on these hormones being at the right level and in balance.
Testosterone and all the other essentail hormones steadily reduce after the age of 30 with rapidly accelerating loss later in life - particularly from 60.
The optimum levels needed for maximum male health and wellness are debated but whatever you decide about treatment, you need to start with understanding and monitoring these hormones.
All of these hormones exist in both men and women but in very different conentrations and have very different functions if you are male.
Testosterone we all know is directly associated with most of the a man's physical characteristics of bone mass, fat distribution, muscle mass and strength and it is also essential in the production of red blood cells and sperm.
A small amount of testosterone is converted to oestradiol which is also essential for healthy libido, erectile function and making sperm.
Prolactin has a vital role in balancing the production of testosterone.
LH also is essential to producing testosterone while FSH stimulates sperm production
DHEAS is essential to make testosterone and this oestradiol in men in the first place, and SHBG manages how much testosterone can be useful to all your tissues.
The complex interplay between all these hormones is responsible for so much there is to being a healthy man, physically and mentally.
This test can be perfomed on a finger-prick home test sample and can also be done on a phlebotomy sample collected at any one of our partner locations around the country.