Weight Training Increase Short-Term Hormonal Response in Older Men
December 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Where you aware that anabolic hormones like testosterone, growth hormone and IGF-1 reduces as we grow older? Low levels of these hormones boost the risk of heart disease , type 2 diabetes, decreased muscle mass and loss of bone mass, prostate cancer and even depression. That’s not all, loss of anabolic hormones damage your metabolic health, endorses obesity and reduce sexual performance. This is considered a serious public health issue that deprives men of their energy levels and lifestyle. Strong weight training boosts anabolic hormone levels and has been recommended as a way of fighting hormone reduction in middle-aged men.
Exercise and diet can influence testosterone
Brazilian researchers, found that total testosterone, free testosterone, dehy-droepiandrosterone, and cortis and sex hormone(binding globulin) amplified more in men who did train with weights then in non-trained men after a powerful weight-training workout. However, older men with extreamly low levels of testosterone and growth hormone can’t depend on exercise to improve hormone levels and may even need hormone replacement therapy to keep great health. During a previous interview with Muscular Development, Harvard urology professor Dr. Abraham.
Morgentaler, author of Testosterone for life, (New York: McGraw Hill, 2009) said, “While exercise and diet can influence testosterone, it is doubtful that lifestyle changes alone will compensate for extremely low levels. I urge my patients to exercise and eat healthy diets because it makes them feel better and enhances overall health.”
(Journal Strength Conditioning Research, 22:1617-1624, 2008)
