Mon

30

Nov

2009

Exercise and the Elderly-Benefit and Facts

Here's a frightening scenario for elderly: a third of adults over 65 years have had and occasional fall. In 2004 alone, nearly 15,000 died from falls injuries, and almost 2 million went to emergency rooms for treatment of these kind of injuries. Therefore, a case could only skin knees and bruised. Even though for us in 30s us this could be a normal circumstance, it could be something much more serious in our 70. And with the slow curing age, the recovery time is longer and more difficult.

Regular exercise for elderly help provide resistance training to maintain bone density and prevent muscle loss that can occur is the lack of activity. Other exercises such as yoga, tai chi, and even balance on one leg, can help improve balance.  Exercise in patients with chronic diseases such as heart disease, hypertension, diabetes and arthritis, can provide. In a recent study at Duke University Medical Center, found that exercise helps fight depression is useful for older people, with or without medication.

Exercise is not just vanity - it is a necessity to maintain an active and independent in the previous year. Isometric exercise makes it possible. They work in water can provide the benefits of exercise not add stress to joints and muscles

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Mon

24

Aug

2009

Should You Worry With Low Testosterone Level?

Low testosterone levels are normal, once men reaches over 50, and can be battled with hormone replacement therapy. A low testosterone level can be a cause of testicular dysfunction and low libido sexual dysfunctions; but, a hormone level that's more than normal or too high can have side effects.If a doctor views as it necessary in order to keep up constant body's strength, avoiding deteriorating muscle mass and maintain strong immune system, then hormone replacement therapy will be the solution.

There is a study of the Massachusetts Male Aging, conducted of 1709 men aged 40- 70 years old. It is viewed that testosterone declined total cross all ages section of 0.8% per year, and with further 2% reduction of free testosterone, biological. While decreases the longitudinal old participating in the 1.6 and 2-3% per year, respectively. Researchers also have indicated that men who have low level testosterone and having hormone deficiency may be more likely to receive depression. Thus it will affect their quality-of-life compare to men who had adequate amounts of the testosterone hormone.

Men grow 10~15 times more than women, but recent research has certified that this hormone also plays a certain role in women's physical and psychological health, specially their sex life. Among men in aged 65 or 70 years group, reductions in amount testosterone was overlook by larger decreases of testosterone levels. This observation was consistent in a cross-sectional observation of 3638 men aged 70 and older.

 

The free and total testosterone levels decline with age in a study describing total testosterone matched in groups of men aged 18 to 78 years old. Thus, while total serum testosterone level correlated in elderly men still keep on age-related increase in SHBG could modulate free testosterone in an environment where total testosterone stabile. Nevertheless, the different mechanisms impacting are only happened likely to lower testosterone levels in aging men.

Falling levels of testosterone may result from the reduction of testicular dysfunction response to LH with aging, combined with the lack of hypothalamic-compensate for lower levels of total testosterone level. Now the important question is whether these changes reduced the SHBG circulating androgens and physiology of normal aging men. This is because illness or the availability of androgen cause of treatable in older people have known to take effect.

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