Anti-aging Effect of Qigong and Sex
Hormones
in Male and Female Patients
Edited
by: Joe Hing kwok Chu
Both males and females produce testosterone. Men produce testosterone
in the testes and
adrenal glands and women produce testosterone in ovaries and adrenal glands.
The average male has 260 to 1,000 nanograms of testosterone
per 100 c.c. of blood plasma and the average woman has 15 to 70 nanograms
of testosterone per 100 c.c. of blood plasma.
The sex drive of men depends on the level of testosterone
and the the number of receptors
they have in the body. Men with low testosterone can still have a normal
sex drive if they have larger amount of receptors.
Usually the level of testosterone fluctuates during the
day. In normal healthy men, the peak is around 8 a.m., and the low is around
midnight. In men with
shenyangxu
condition, the
curve of testosterone production can look like
an inverted V.
As people age the sex hormone concentration
in blood plasma changes. In normal men after middle age, the concentration
of plasma female hormone,
estradiol (E2) tends to rise, while the levels of
plasma male hormone, testosterone (T) tend to remain normal or slightly
decrease. As men get older the estradiol starts to remain at steady levels
and testosterone starts to drop.
Dropping of testosterone in men not only causes
loss of libido and impotence but also causes other illnesses.
In 1976, Phillips found that of 15 middle
aged male patients, 7 had a slower growth of beard,
3 had gynecomastia
, and three had decreased libido before myocardial
infarction occurred.
Four months before myocardiac infarction, plasma E2
rises significantly while levels of T
were normal.
In 1982,
researchers at
the Shanghai Hypertension Clinic in China found that E2
level and or E2/T ratio increased respectively in patients
with sick sinus syndrome (1981), as well as in those with Type II diabetes
(1982), acute myocardial infarction (1983)
and hypertension (1984). Administration of
kidney tonics and Yin-yang regulating herbal medicines or practice
of certain type of qigong overcame various symptoms, and decreased, to various
extent, the E2 levels and E2/T ratio.
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