"This fall, Binder will coordinate a four-month study to give 20 St. Louis men ages 65 to 90 a topical testosterone gel and injections of human growth hormone. Binder plans more studies after this one, and hers is one of three across the country."
"But beyond the different hormones involved, male HRT and female HRT differ in a crucial way, said St. Louis University's Dr. John Morley. For men, researchers will give no more hormones than they would produce normally. As Binder said, the men in her study will not be "superphysiologic." In contrast, Morley said, women needed doses of estrogen and progestin many times normal to derive any benefit."
"Morley, a national geriatrics expert, has helped St. Louis become something of a hub for male HRT. He said testosterone especially holds promise to improve the lives of aging men in modest but real ways."
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