High estrogen is common in older men, but you can do something about it
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How to turn high estrogen into high T at any age
Estrogen is a stress hormone which causes inflammation and suppresses energy production.
Estrogen causes fat gain – and it’s produced by fat cells.
Estrogen increases the risk of cancers and most other chronic diseases.
Elevated estrogen also causes sexual problems in men.
Some studies have shown that blood estrogen is slightly lower in older men – but this can be misleading.
Because when you look at the full picture it becomes clear that older men have far more estrogen in the tissues and the testosterone to estrogen ratio decreases with age.
Don’t be fooled by oversimplified blood tests – estrogen is a problem that increases in men with age – and it’s one that we all should address.
The human research was carried out at the University Hospital, Gent, Belgium. The paper was published in Aging Male.
There are three types of natural estrogen. Estradiol is the main one that is detected in the blood.
Estrogen is made from testosterone.
“In males, testosterone is the major source of plasma estradiol, the main biologically active estrogen, only 20% of which is secreted by the testes.”
Men have significantly higher blood estrogen levels than postmenopausal women do.
Higher testosterone levels protect us from the degenerative effects of estrogen…
“The plasma concentration of estradiol in males is 2-3 ng/dl and its production rate in blood is 25-40 micrograms/24 h; both of these values are significantly higher than in postmenopausal women.”
One of the most important overlooked factors of estrogen is that blood tests are not entirely reliable.
A lot of estrogen is produced and metabolized in the cells – where it does a lot of harm without showing up in the blood.
“Plasma levels of estradiol do not necessarily reflect tissue-level activity as peripherally formed estradiol is partially metabolized in situ; thus, not all enters the general circulation, with a fraction remaining only locally active.”
While blood estrogen levels don’t change a lot in men as we age, testosterone does.
Unless something is done to prevent it, testosterone tends to drop with age.
“However, the age-associated decrease in testosterone levels is scarcely reflected in plasma estradiol levels, as a result of increasing aromatase activity with age and the age-associated increase in fat mass.”
The decreasing testosterone levels are partially explained by increasing aromatase – the enzyme which turns testosterone into estrogen.
We don’t see this in blood estrogen levels.
All of this indicates that older men are being exposed to elevated levels of estrogen in the tissues which are not showing up in blood tests.
“Free and bioavailable estradiol levels do decrease modestly with age as does the ratio of free testosterone to free estradiol, the latter testifying to the age-associated increased aromatization of testosterone.”
If your testosterone levels are dropping then it’s likely that your tissue bound estrogen is increasing.
Increasing body fat and decreasing testosterone are particular indicators of rising estrogen.
“Estradiol levels are highly significantly positively related to body fat mass and more specifically to subcutaneous abdominal fat, but not to visceral fat.”
Some types of fat are more indicative than others.
Fat cells are estrogen factories – destroying testosterone to make this inflammatory hormone.
But particularly belly fat and butt fat.
Fat cells in that region of the body are particularly hungry for testosterone which they turn into massive amounts of estrogen.
“Indeed, aromatase activity in visceral fat is only one-tenth of the activity in gluteal fat.”
It’s important to keep an eye on these markers as we age — and it’s important to take at least some steps to minimize aromatase.
This means that testosterone stays higher and estrogen lower — even invisible, tissue-bound estrogen.
The essential mineral zinc is in aromatase inhibitors – high-zinc foods like oysters – or well cooked mushrooms which contain natural aromatase inhibitors are some safe, simple steps we can take to minimize aromatase.
You should always consult your healthcare practitioner for guidance on medical diagnosis and treatment.
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