I’ve just completed a seminar series educating practitioners across Australia about how to recognise & correct sex hormone dysregulation in men & the response has been overwhelming. Everyone seems to be in agreement that this subject was seriously under-cooked in their undergraduate training, which is such a shame given that low testosterone, male subfertility and infertility have escalated in recent years and so too has the number of male patients we’re now seeing Here’s some highlights that might give you something to think about:
- There is general agreement that men’s sexual health is an independent marker of their current whole health & strong predictor of future health – not just in terms of cardiovascular but also mental health, premature ageing, bone integrity…the list goes on!
- While the rate of erectile dysfunction in a cohort of health middle-aged American men was 52%, a recent Italian study revealed that 25% of men with a recent onset of erectile dysfunction were less than 40 years old!
- International men’s health specialists go even further & suggest that results of a semen analysis provides us with all we need to know about a man’s health
- So if you’re not asking your male patients about their sexual health (and yes that includes the young ones) how much of their whole health story are you missing??
What’s reassuring is that, men’s hormonal regulation & dysregulation is in fact more straight forward than women’s (…and we’re wizzes at that so this is going to be easy!!) It’s simply a matter of being taught the language, shown the ropes regarding the right questions to ask & how to interpret the pathology & then rediscovering all the things already in your dispensary that can be used for these clients. For example did you know:
- Vitamin K2 plays a role in testosterone regulation (Limonard et al 2015)
- Folate is the most well researched & effective CAM for treatment of erectile dysfunction with an 89% response rate in one large study (Yan et al 2014)
- Pomegranate is being hailed as the miracle solution for just about every male urology conditions (Kroeger et al 2013)
I find working in men’s health very rewarding & now I know there are a fresh bunch of practitioners around Australia equally inspired and skilled who are keen to start specialising in this area. This is fantastic news because I think that while female hormonal health has really been saturated with naturopathic specialists, we’re in desperate need of some practitioners out there who know men’s health as well as I do…or better! 🙂
If you missed the Men’s Hormones Seminars – you can now purchase the 3hr audio and the notes direct from our website https://rachelarthur.com.au/product/newgettingmenshormonesright/