> ## Content Index
> Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.foodconsumer.org/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further.

# Testosterone may help fight obesity in men
- URL: https://www.foodconsumer.org/testosterone_obesity_in_men_0711140827/
- Published: 2014-07-11T09:26:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-22T16:27:08.000Z
- Description: An Asian Journal of Andrology report describes how obesity lowers total and free testosterone and how low testosterone in turn promotes fat gain, and suggests testosterone might treat moderate obesity in men once randomized trials establish its safety and efficacy.
- Author: Food Consumer
- Tags: Drug, Health News, #vivvo-import

Friday July 11, 2014 (foodconsumer.org) -- Men who suffer obesity are often found to have low testosterone levels even though they may not have a recognizable hypothalamic-pituitary-testicular (HPT) axis pathology, according to a new report recently published in Asian Journal of Andrology.

The report says that moderate obesity can significantly decrease total testosterone because insulin resistance can reduce sex hormone binding globulin and more severe obesity can reduce free testosterone levels because of its suppression of the HPT axis.

On the other hand, low testosterone by itself can promote adiposity increasing risk of obesity.

Regardless, obesity induced hypotestosteronemia is reversible even though it requires substantial weight loss.

Because of the association between testosterone levels and obesity status, testosterone may be used to treat moderate obesity in men who do not apparently have symptomatic androgen deficiency. But for its indication to treat obesity, testosterone therapy needs to be tested in randomized controlled clinical trials to determine its safety and efficacy.

*Mark Ng Tang Fui, Philippe Dupuis, Mathis Grossmann, Lowered testosterone in male obesity: Mechanisms, morbidity and management, Asian Journal of Andrology, 2014*

Scientists at Maggiore-Bellaria Hospital, University of Florence, and Careggi Hospital in Italy have recently published a study in Asian Journal of Andrology suggests that central obesity can increase risk of erectile dysfunction in Italian men.

Studies have already shown that not just Italian men who live with obesity can suffer erectile dysfunction. The link between obesity and erectile dysfunction can be explained by the fact that obesity decreases low testosterone, which in turn leads to erectile dysfunction. (David Liu, PHD)

*Giovanni Corona, Giulia Rastrelli, Sandra Filippi, Linda Vignozzi, Edoardo Mannucci, Mario Maggi, Erectile dysfunction and central obesity: an Italian perspective, Asian Journal of Andrology, 2014*