Low Testosterone Increases Risk of Alzheimer’s

The role of low testosterone may increase contracting Alzheimer’s and even type 2 diabetes. Compilation of studies show how testosterone plays a vital role in protecting the brain and is responsible for lowering inflammation and scavenging free radicals.

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This study shows that low endogenous testosterone levels were associated with poor cognitive performance in healthy elderly men.
https://www.eurekaselect.com/155570/article 

Low T and ALS

Lower levels of testosterone may be associated with an increased risk of all-cause dementia or AD
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0891988720933351?url_ver=Z39.88-2003&rfr_id=ori%3Arid%3Acrossref.org&rfr_dat=cr_pub++0pubmed&

“Our findings strongly suggest that normal age-related testosterone depletion is one of the important changes that promote Alzheimer’s disease in men,” said Christian Pike

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30632505/

androgen therapy might be useful in the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0149763418309515?via%3Dihub