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01 WHAT’S BEHIND THE RISE IN LOW TESTOSTERONE LEVELS? One of the natural processes of ageing is loss of muscle mass, a drop in metabolism and a middle-aged spread of fat, even when you’re a keen cyclist. Weight training and higher protein intake will help ameliorate the decline. As will testosterone. But recently there’s been a rise in men reporting low testosterone levels. Why is that? “Over the past five years, I’ve started to see more exercising men present with borderline testosterone results,” says Dr Simon Saunders, specialist in endocrinology at the Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. “These are effectively broken down into two major groups. First, there are young men in their mid-to-late twenties who are interested in muscle bulk. They’ve spoken to someone at the gym…

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Cycling Plus (Digital) - 1 Issue, September 2024

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