Testosterone the male hormone has been found to be much less prevalent in obese men than in normal weight men. The researchers also found that obese women were also likely to have greater quantities of testosterone when compared to their normal weight contemporaries.

The story that was just published by the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism covered two different research projects that came to the same conclusions pointing to the fact of yet another extra health risk for obese men and women.
Testosterone is mainly a male sex hormone that is found in larger quantities in normal men than in women. It is responsible for a man’s aggressive traits and essential for good sexual function. Lack of testosterone in a man can mean low sex drive, weakened bones and muscles.

At Ukmedix we have already reported extensively on research that shows that obesity is a major reason for erectile dysfunction and we linked this to the fact that obesity and unhealthy living can mean the build up of fatty deposits in the penile artery that is so essential to good erections.

This new research shows however that obesity could also be causing erectile dysfunction due to the lack of testosterone that appears in obese men. In fact maybe the reasons for the high levels of erectile dysfunction in obese men is for both reasons. Testosterone in a man will decline naturally as he ages but research has shown that tall men who put on say 13 kilos had the testosterone blood levels of a man ten years older.

Whatever the reason for a man’s erectile dysfunction whether it is due to the lack of testosterone or due to the blocked arteries the fact remains that being obese can seriously affect the good erectile function of a man and it is therefore something that should be tacked in all men suffering from impotence.