According to a new study which is funded by the British drug maker ProStrakan, testosterone gel therapy can fix the fundamental problems in men who suffer from diabetes type 2 (diabetes due to lifestyle).
Diabetes or insulin resistance occurs when the body not knows how to use insulin to process sugar.
The researchers found that the application of testosterone gel can reduce the problem in men with diabetes which have low testosterone levels, or in men without diabetes but with a bunch of heart risk factors called metabolic syndrome. Testosterone gel therapy can as well lower cholesterol levels and has some positive impact on sexual function.
"These findings support the treatment of testosterone in men with low testosterone and type-two diabetes or metabolic syndrome,"explained Dr T. Hugh Jones from Barnsley Hospital in England
In the new study, researchers tested ProStrakan's testosterone gel and gel dummy (placebo) at 220 male middle-aged and older. Participants use the gel once a day for a year.
As a result, insulin resistance decreased by 16 percent in men which use testosterone gel. However, this testosterone gel works only on the treatment of diabetes and not a medicine to control blood sugar levels. The researchers as well found that sexual function in participants slightly increased with testosterone gel, but there was no difference in erectile dysfunction or sexual satisfaction as a whole.
The side effects were similar between the placebo gel and testosterone gel, although sometimes the testosterone gel can cause swelling around the joints and in the breast.
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