This is a controversial account of why, because of the barriers to testosterone action in the body, men can have normal levels of testosterone but still have life-, love-, and health-wrecking symptoms of testosterone deficiency which need treatment.
The deficiency is increasingly being linked to common and serious medical conditions such as obesity, diabetes, heart and circulatory disorders, and even Alzheimer's disease.
This has clearly been shown by the author's pioneering research publications as well as those of other colleagues and researchers worldwide.
However, in the majority of cases, they are often denied because of the lack of understanding of the medical profession and other authorities regulating the treatment.
This is a wake-up call to both doctors and patients alike to treat the symptoms of testosterone deficiency and related conditions with what the author argues is the most effective, safest, and economic form of preventive medicine of the twenty - first century.
Founder and chief medical consultant to the Centre for Men's Health, Professor Malcolm Carruthers is a highly respected men's health specialist and world authority on testosterone deficiency. Dr. Carruthers is adjunct professor at the Alzheimer's and Aging Department, Edith Cowan University, Western Australia.
As well as being a fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists, he is a life member of the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP).
He is also President of the Society for the Study of Androgen Deficiency (Andropause Society), a member of the British Cardiovascular Society, the European Academy of Andrology, the International and European Societies for the Study of the Aging Male, and a past president of the Society for Psychosomatic Research.
Alongside over 120 referred papers in medical journals and editorials in the American Heart Journal and The Lancet, he is the author of eight other books including The Testosterone Revolution (published by Thorson's/HarperCollins in 2001) and ADAM: Androgen Deficiency in the Adult Male
-Cause, Diagnosis, and Treatment (published by Taylor & Francis in 2004).
