Can't find it... Testosterone release with weight loss?

Hey guys, I vaguely remember a mention some time back about extra testosterone being released when we lose weight rapidly like this.  Is that right? I know a lot of it is the increased blood flow, less pain, more mobility, etc.. .but I feel like a horny teenager going thru puberty...LOL.   I get wood at the weirdest times, seemingly if a breeze blows right....  Also, I get these teenage mood swing, and danged if I have a friggin zit the other morning.. LOL.  What the heck is up with that? I'm 42 years old, and go thru with zit's years ago..LOL. Ok... the wife likes the horny teenager part..    Dale

Yes indeed !!! Thats all part of the ride sit back and enjoy .      Nick

The urban legend continues...What you said is true.  I won't go into details but...what it is...is what it is.

Hard to say, it can be testo causing that or impoved mood causing the testo or both. Increased physical actvity can also increase dopamine, whi*****reases (I think) both testo and drive.

Whatever the case, git 'er done!

Dave

No, it's women who like to explain every weird mood swing they might have post-op as indicating that "estrogen is stored in fat".  Not really. This is just conjecture, but a semi-informed conjecture.  In both men and women, circulating androgens (e.g., testosterone and androstenedione) are converted by the aromatase enzyme (in other words, aromatized) into estrogen.  This is why juiced male bodybuilders taking most anabolic steroids including testosterone, particularly at the high doses they use, can develop gynecomastia, or "***** tits".  The anabolic steroids are converted into estrogens, and breast tissue, whether male or female, responds to estrogen. Aromatase in present in many tissues, but in morbidly obese individuals, their (our?) superabundance of adipose tissue (fat cells) means that they're carrying around many times the usual number of estrogen-synthesizing machines.  In women, this androgen-driven, paradoxical excess of estrogen is one of the contributing factors towards the development of PCOS (polycystic ovarian syndrome), amenorrhea and infertility.  In men, this relative excess of estrogen can cause your brain to shut off the stimuli to your testicles to produce testosterone, leading to a lowered sex drive and decreased fertility (or outright infertility). Just as women who haven't had periods in many years, once post-op, may suddenly find that they have begun to menstruate again, men who are post-op WLS can experience a resurgence in sex drive because of the decrease in adipose tissue which leads to a decrease in the production of estrogen.  This reduction in estrogen levels allows more testosterone to be synthesized and, once synthesized, less of it is shunted away to be converted to estrogen. Does this help? /Steve

Steve,  Yes it does, thanks! So, techically we're not releasing stored testosterone, just the weight loss is allowing out bodies to produce the right amount.  Makes sense.  I know my sex drive had gone down before...  I still wanted it... just wanted to see what was on TV first...LOL.   .  Now it's like, screw it.. I'll watch the re-run... boom chik a wow wow...... oh HOnnneyyyyyyyy.... . Dale

I love it when a board brother gets a return to joy!

 well, I was about to say, just b/c the libido increases (e.g with weight loss) doesn't mean that the potency does ..  (or does it?)   Anyone have any "before and after" experiences they dare to share?

Wreck that chick!

Very interesting...  I have a decreased sex drive myself. My wife is always wanting it and for the most part I'm just not that interested.  Once a week is plenty for me and sometimes once a month is more than enough.  Additionally, I have man boobs. I've had them since I was a child.  It's the part of my body that I completely detest.  Men aren't supposed to have tits. I suppose it's the over production of estrogen that has created them.  I read that somewhere once before as well. I can't wait to have surgery so I can get this damned weight off..seems like it fixes EVERYTHING.