Re: Increasing Obesity and Testosterone...

From: James Michael Howard (jmhoward_at_anthropogeny.com)
Date: 12/30/04 

Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 13:22:55 GMT

On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 23:27:45 +0100, down@thekraal.com (madiba) wrote:

>James Michael Howard <jmhoward@anthropogeny.com> wrote:
>
>> Obesity is not causing other problems; obesity is caused by the same
>> thing that is causing a lot of problems in other areas as well:
>> excessive testosterone.
>
>Just as testosterone levels fall in the aging male he gets his paunch.
>There goes your theory..
>Obesity is, and always has been caused by people consuming more calories
>than they burn.

Actually my hypothesis is about the effects of excess testosterone
reducing DHEA which reduces fat. DHEA declines to very low levels in
old age, so, low DHEA and the effect of remaining testosterone on this
low level of DHEA increase fat.

You did what I wanted; you opened the door to the underlying
mechanism. Thanks

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