Whether hormone replacement therapy is for you or not is up to you and your doctor. Many medical doctors will say that testosterone is bad for your prostate and makes prostate cancer grow. Although the fall in testosterone grows in men as they age and reflects the rise in prostate cancer, BPH, and other prostate-related conditions. This wrong thinking started more than eighty years ago. One doctor in ancient history believed in castration to cure prostate cancer. Eunuchs had less developed sexual organs and smaller prostates so this seemed like a good idea at the time.
Today some say doctors are using both drugs and scalpels in castration. In’36 a study was made just after testosterone could be synthesized in’35. Doctors only recently knew of it and it was not readily available.
Even back then doctors not only knew that estrogen was bad for prostate health, while testosterone was good for prostate health, they also knew of the all-important testosterone to estrogen ratio where testosterone should control and limit the female hormone. Over eighty studies were quoted on the entire subject. Another study in’38 showed that as men aged their testosterone levels fell and the incidence of prostate disease rose greatly, thus the idea of hormone replacement therapy as a treatment.
