By Amy Norton
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Older men with low levels of the hormone testosterone may die sooner than other men their age with normal testosterone levels, a study suggests.
Researchers found that among 794 generally healthy older men, those with the lowest testosterone levels were 40 percent more likely to die within the 1985-2004 […]

Frequently testosterone deficiency are traceable to excess estrogens , alluded to earlier as hormonal equivalent to the eternal battle of the sexes. Often testosterone secretion will be solidly within normal range , but estrogen production may be two or three times the expected.
That excess estrogen has many effects on the male body , one has […]

Anorchism, the complete absence of testes, can be mistakenfor cryptorchidism , although it is not as common. The scrotum of course is empty. The body characteristics are similar to those of a male with undescended testes. If human chorionic gonadotrophin does not lead to increased urinary estrogen and testosterone levels and an increasingly masculine body, […]

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Aka gyno , the abnormal breast developement in males , is common. About 95% of boys entering puberty experience it to some degree. It is usually harmless except psychologically, yet frequently unexplainable. Testosterone deficiency is certainly related to many cases ; gyno is often one of the side effects of subnormal testosterone production.
However breasts may […]

Another testosterone deficiency problem is cryptorchidism. 3% of all full-term male infants and 21% of premature ones are born with one or both testicles undescended. About 80% of the time the tests will descend normally into the scrotum during the first year of life. When they don’t then medical intervention is essential.

Another testosterone deficiency disease is eunuchoidism. The victim has an overall more feminine body than a Klinefelter’s patient. Some characteristics of eunuchoidism is…

Klinefelter’s syndrome is perhaps the most common feminizing disease. It affects one out of every four hundred males. The youth suffering from Klinefelter’s syndrome is usually dismissed as a fat kid who can’t control his eating habits… yet he doesn’t have a over eating habit.