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Steroids improve sex life?

It is possible that testosterone stimulates sex life is not as hard as one might think. Shows one of the latest research, elderly men with slightly low testosterone levels do not feel enhance sexual desire and improve sexual activity after taking steroids. In the study, about 150 men from 60 years and older were daily taking testosterone supplements(steroids), while the other 150 received a placebo. On average, their testosterone levels by the beginning of the study amounted to slightly more than 300 nanograms per deciliter. This is about the lower limit of normal.

Three years later between the groups was found for the difference in evaluation by men of their level of sexual desire, erectile function and quality of sexual acts. According to the researchers, despite the fact that men from the group who took steroids really talked about slightly more satisfaction from sex acts, the effect was small and could be random. These findings are consistent with previous studies, also talking about the fact that men with low (within normal range) testosterone levels do not feel improvement in sexual function after taking steroids.

Dr. Elizabeth Kavaler, a urologist of Lenox Hill Hospital, who was not involved in the study, said that taking steroids can be useful for men who have his level is lower than in the studied — from 150 to 300 nanograms per deciliter. But "beyond that there's not much he can help", she says. Despite the confidence of some men is that testosterone supplements will make them stronger, or braver, "to feed men with testosterone does not mean to return them to the youth," said Knight in an interview with Live Science. "Taking part in the experiment, men not necessarily had any symptoms of low libido, so the doctors hardly would expect that their libido will increase," she explained.

It is important to note that sexual function was not the main purpose of the study, which somewhat limits the scientific reliability of opening. The study was aimed rather to establish whether steroids influence the development of atherosclerosis — the thickening and hardening of the walls of the arteries. Despite the fact that earlier medical researchers have suggested that steroids may increase the risk of cardiovascular disease in men between the groups was not observed no differences in the rate of development of atherosclerosis.

Describes a study conducted by researchers from Harvard Medical School, was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.