There is nothing more dangerous to your health than being overweight. Those love handles are, put simply, your Death Warrant. Think I'm exagerrating? I'm not. There's no more sure of way destroying your manhood and shortening your life than those extra pounds around your midsection.

If you're overweight at all, especially in middle age and beyond, it's time to get serious about what body fat does to you. Here's just a few of the nasty endocrinological and metabolic firestorms that those fat cells are unleashing into your tissues (especially the ones effecting your penis):

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Estrogen. Extra fatty tissue increases aromatase levels, leading to extra Estrogen in the male body. This is deadly over time, leading to decreased testosterone. Estrogen is also highly suspected of playing a role in prostate cancer.
Bad Sex. Those extra pounds are correlated with bad sex. No guy wants a poor sex life but some do not want to admit that the spare tire is dragging down their performance in the bedroom. []
Erectile Dysfunction and Impotence. Being overweight is also a strong predictor of erectile dysfunction.
Low Testosterone. Being overweight is also associated with decreased free and total testosterone. [9]
Inflammation. Fat cells, or adipose tissue in the literature, churn out cytokines, raising inflammation throughout your body, which is bad for the heart and penis.
Metabolic Syndrome and Insulin Resistance. Increases a hormone called resistin that leads to, you guessed it, insulin resistance, a.k.a. Metabolic Syndrome. Metabolic Syndrome is the curse of Western Societies.
Prostate Cancer. Increased risk of prostate cancer [3] and other cancers. Researchers recently discovered that one reason this occurs is that one of the lipase enzymes that the body uses on stored fat actually turns on cancer cells into aggressive thrivers and growers. [13] In other words, your spare tire literally feeds and fuels cancers, which explains why obesity and cancer so often go hand in hand.
Decreased Fertility. Greatly decreased Fertility. The decreased testosterone and extra fat in the area of your scrotum kill and injure your sperm.
Blood Clots and Stroke. Increase plasminogen activator inhibitor which increases clotting which leads to increased risk for stroke and heart attack.
Arteriosclerosis and Heart Disease. Increases IL-6 leading to augmented blood vessel inflammation which in turn leads to increased artheriosclerosis. Decreases an anti-inflammatory compound called adiponectin, which leads to increased levels of IL-6 and arterial inflammation.
Hypertension and Blood Pressure. Extra body fat increases a bodily chemical called angiotensis that raises blood pressure, one of the key enemies of your sexual and circulatory life.
Dementia. Increased risk of dementia due to excess abdominal fat in midlife. [10]
Apnea and Sleep Disorders. Increases

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Free Testosterone. Increased weight is associated with increased insulin which in turn is associated with decreased SBHG. SBHG binds to testosterone so theoretically this should increase free testosterone. But what actually happens is that because overweight individuals have such increased levels of aromatse in their body, the testosterone is quickly converted to estrogen. I document the dangers of Estrogen to the male body here.
Leptin. Leptin is produced in fatty tissue and so, of course, the more weight you have the more leptin you produce. Leptin increases blood pressure, especially in individuals with a mutated or missing PTP1B gene. [11]

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NEWS FLASH: There is an interesting new supplement called Irvingia that looks extremely promising. [7] One study found that, with no change in diet, study participants dropped 28 pounds in 10 weeks. This is a phenomenol amount of weight loss and is doubly remarkable because those in the study continued to eat as they always ate! What is even more remarkable about this supplement is that it lowers glucose, cholesterol, LDL and CRP (inflammation). A previous study found that it also dramatically lowered triglycerides. [8] In other words, not only does it drop weight, which is the cause of so many health issues, but it also lowers most of the key markers for heart disease. One of the key ways that it works is by lowering leptin, which is a hormone that signals your body to basically store fat. Leptin is also key to appetite control and so this also helps moderate hunger as well. It also inhibits the amylase enzyme, which converts starches to sugars in the intestine. In other words, it seems to almost magically help virtually every metabolic pathway dealing with weight retention. Of course, talk to your doctor and remember that this should only be used short term.

CAUTIONS:

Be cautious about cutting calories too fast and too deep: it can whack your testosterone. For example, after just a few days of fasting, you testosterone levels can lower by a third or more. [1] Not only does dropping calories too fast whack your total testosterone, but it also raises SHBG. [6] SHBG is Serum Hormone-Binding Globulin, a protein that binds to the lion's share of your testosterone. The little bit left over, around 2% of the total, is what your body can actually use since it is bioavailable. So, if you increase SHBG through dieting - and incresing SHBG is a problem for aging males anyway - more testosterone is bound leaving you with less free testosterone. So how many calories should you cut? Well, one study found that subjects that lowered caloric intake by 15% did not experience a loss in total testosterone. [2] Again, it is better to lose weight gradually, relying on exercise and a balanced diet than the typical crash and burn programs that so many people engage in. And, if you will follow the Low Fat (or Ornish) Diet, you can lose weight and barely cut back on calories at all, thus avoiding a nasty fall in total and free testosterone.

Be cautious about using the Atkins Diet (very low carbohydrate and high saturated fat/animal proteins) to lose weight, especially long term. This diet has been shown to increase CRP (C-Reactive Protein) levels by 30-40% and CRP is a key marker of heart disease. [5]

REFERENCES:

1) J of Clin Endocrinology & Metabolism,May 1997,82(5):1543-8

2) Amer J of Clin Nutrition,Jun 1984,39(6):930-6

3) Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev,2007,16:63-69

4) Obesity Reviews,Jul 2008,9(4)340-354(15)

5) Nov. 6, 2007, presentations, American Heart Association annual meeting, Orlando, Fla

6) Nutritional Reviews, 2008, 66:506-516

7) Nutr J, 2008, submitted

8) West Afr J Med, Apr-Jun 1990, 9(2):108-115

9) Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, published online on January 27, 2009, Submitted on July 24, 2008, Accepted on January 15, 2009, "Effect of Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass Surgery on the Sex Steroids and Quality of Life in Obese Men", Ahmad Hammoud MD, MPH*, Mark Gibson MD, Steven C. Hunt PhD, Ted D. Adams PhD, Douglass T. Carrell PhD, HCLD, Ronette L. Kolotkin PhD, and A. Wayne Meikle MD

10) Neurology, Received August 15, 2007, Accepted December 14, 2007, "Central obesity and increased risk of dementia more than three decades later", R. A. Whitmer PhD, et. al.

11) http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090901104852.htm

12) Intl J of Impotence Res, 2008, 20:358-365

13) Cell, 8 January 2010, 140(1):49-61, "Monoacylglycerol Lipase Regulates a Fatty Acid Network that Promotes Cancer Pathogenesis"

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