Got Testosterone?: Men-Return to the Sexier, Strong, Smarter You!

By Kathy C. Maupin and Brett Newcomb

We live in an era of rapidly advancing medical breakthroughs, and some of them seem too good to be true. Men, could just one hormone keep you healthy, strong, virile, and fully productive until you die? The answer is “yes,” and that hormone is testosterone—more than merely an antidote to ED.

There is much more to testoste

• Language: English
• Publisher: BioBalance Health LLC
• Release date: Feb 28, 2019
• ISBN: 9781732276789

Kathy C. Maupin

Dr. Kathy Maupin has practiced obstetrics and gynecology for more than thirty years, and for more than sixteen years, she has specialized in hormone replacement for men and women using testosterone pellets. She received bioidentical hormone pellet replacement therapy herself after a hysterectomy at age forty-seven, as a last-ditch attempt to save her health, her career, her family life, and her happiness. Dr. Maupin credits the treatment with saving her life. She now helps both men and women worldwide discover the importance and life-changing benefits of testosterone replacement. In 2003, she founded BioBalance Health(R) , a medical practice dedicated to helping women and men treat the symptoms of aging with bioidentical testosterone pellets, preventive medical treatment, dietary supplements, and exercise. Dr. Maupin not only has a lifetime of experience in treating men and women medically. She also developed and successfully promoted legislation in the state of Missouri that benefits patients as well as doctors. She wrote the Missouri healthcare initiative, that became the first state to adopt this law in 2001, that required insurance companies to pay for breast reconstruction after mastectomy. In 2015, she and co-author Brett Newcomb published their first book, The Secret Female Hormone: How Testosterone Can Save Your Life, published in six countries.

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Praise for Got Testosterone?™

"In my practice, we check the testosterone levels of all men over the age of thirty-five who feel depressed. We do this before we discuss antidepression medications or engage in a course of talk therapy. Checking their testosterone is the starting point.

The power of Dr. Maupin and Mr. Newcomb’s approach is that it offers science-based medicine and is psychologically sound, all in one package. It’s often difficult to find the former in the average low-T clinic; it’s unheard of to find the latter. This is pioneering work, and mainstream medicine will be following their lead."

— Michael E. Mahon, PsyD

Saint Louis, Missouri

"As both trailblazers and advocates for women’s health, Dr. Kathy Maupin and Brett Newcomb let the secret out when they revealed the absolute importance testosterone plays in promoting the health and well-being of women in their first book, The Secret Female Hormone. Applying the training and education received at Dr. Maupin’s clinic in St. Louis using the pellet method for bioidentical hormone replacement, the female patients seen in our clinic experience a higher quality of life, better health, and a restored personal sense of well-being. As a result, many of them ask, What can I do to get my husband to come see you? The answer is now quite simple: Have him read this book and let’s see what happens! I am grateful for this important resource that emphasizes the crucial role testosterone plays in men’s health."

— Jason M. Kolodjski, DC, MSN, APRN, FNP-C

Clinic Director, Natural Health Center

Houston, Texas

This book gave me the information I needed to get my head out of the sand and get some extensive lab work done. I found out that I had a serious testosterone deficiency that was causing me a lot of issues. Dr. Maupin had talked to me about my joint pain and inflammation for several years before I tried the T pellets. The pellets turned my body clock back twenty years, and now I have a new energy level, I sleep great, I have no more joint pain or inflammation, and my wife is very happy.

— Brian Dunlop, JD

Saint Louis, Missouri

Got Testosterone?™

Men—Return to the Sexier, Smarter, Stronger You!

By Kathy Maupin, MD

and Brett Newcomb, MA, LPC

A STONEBROOK PUBLISHING BOOK

Copyright © 2019 by Kathy Maupin, MD

This book was guided in development and edited by

Nancy Erickson, The Book Professor®

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All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Stonebrook Publishing, a division of Stonebrook Enterprises, LLC, Saint Louis, Missouri. No part of this book may be reproduced, scanned, or distributed in any printed or electronic form without written permission from the author.

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ISBN: 978-1-7322767-8-9

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Dedication

This book is dedicated to men everywhere who are fighting the battle against aging and are looking for affordable, practical answers in their quest to remain vigorous and healthy for the rest of their lives.

We wrote this book to provide answers to those challenges. We didn’t write it for young weight-lifter men who want to bulk up. It’s not meant to turn you into a muscle-bound, no-neck caricature of masculinity, although this book will help you maintain your muscle mass. It wasn’t written to make you hypersexual, although the solution found within will help you be sexual and have a strong libido. Neither is it for medicating you, although it will help you avoid the need for certain meds that are associated with aging and will prevent you from ever needing many of them.

This book was written with respect and careful detail, and it tells the stories of real men who have overcome many of the difficulties and diseases of aging by accepting the optimal testosterone replacement.

To my patients who may identify with one or more of the real life examples in this book, I assure you that I have combined several case studies into each example, so no person will feel that I have revealed their secrets.

My hope is that you and the next generation of men over forty will maintain your strength, sexuality, and confidence—as well as your good health—for the rest of your life.

Contents

Foreword by John Maupin, JD

Preface

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1: The One Hormone Men Need to Sustain Their Youth and Health

Chapter 2: Do You Have Any of the Symptoms of Low Testosterone?

Erectile Dysfunction

Infrequent or Decreased Volume of Ejaculation

Loss of Sexual Desire

Inability to Achieve an Orgasm

Premature Ejaculation

Loss of Morning Erections

Loss of Muscle Mass

Loss of Stamina and Strength

Poor Recovery After a Heart Attack

Insomnia / Poor Quality Sleep

Fatigue

Memory Problems

Joint Aches / Arthritis

Poor Balance / Coordination

The All-American Beer Belly

Ringing in the Ears

Anxiety and Depression

Man Boobs

Smaller Genitals

Feeling Old and Near the End of Life

More Body Hair but Less Head Hair

New Migraine Headaches

Thinning Skin

Frequent Urination / Enlarged Prostate

Chapter 3: Do You Have Any of the Diseases or Conditions of Aging? Testosterone Can Help!

Insulin Resistance

Adult-Onset Diabetes

Obesity

High Cholesterol, Triglycerides, and Inflammation

Parkinson’s Disease

Osteoporosis

Autoimmune Diseases: Rheumatoid Arthritis, Systemic Lupus, Crohn’s Disease, Multiple Sclerosis, Scleroderma, Psoriasis, and Fibromyalgia

Dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease

Male Breast Cancer

Cancer

Sarcopenia

Risk of Early Mortality

Chapter 4: Testosterone Pellets: The Best Option for Men

How Do the Ease of Treatment and the Cost of Different Forms of Testosterone Compare?

How Do the Medical Benefits and Risks of Different Forms of Testosterone Compare?

Testosterone Gel: The Most Common Testosterone Replacement

Potential Side Effects of Testosterone Replacement

Conversions into Estrogens

Unfounded Concern About Prostate Cancer and Testosterone

Chapter 5: Interpreting Your Blood Tests

Preparing for Your Blood Tests

Interpreting Your Blood Tests

Panel of Blood Tests

Abnormal Blood Tests That Could Prevent You From Receiving T Pellets

Explanation of and Treatment for Abnormal Blood Labs

Testing of Hormones from Non-Sex Glands in the Body: Cortisol, Thyroid, T3, T4, Reverse T3

Blood Tests That Reflect Your Cardiac Health

Blood Tests That Reflect Your General Health

Cancer Screening Tests

The Art and Science of Laboratory Interpretation

Chapter 6: Sex and Testosterone: How It Works and What Can Go Wrong

Biological and Physical Issues

Relationship Issues

Chapter 7: Special Circumstances and Treatments

When a Man Is Not Yet Ready for Testosterone Pellets

When Testosterone Pellets Aren’t an Option

Conclusion

Appendix A: Questions Men Ask

The Superiority of Testosterone Pellets

Testosterone and Erectile Dysfunction

Testosterone and Prostate Cancer

Other Aspects of Testosterone

Your Lifestyle: How It Affects the Success of T Pellet Treatment

How T Pellets Influence the Diseases of Aging

Side Effects of Testosterone Pellets

Appendix B: Hormone Imbalances That Cause Symptoms of Aging

Appendix C: Dr. Maupin’s Low-Carb Diet for Men

Appendix D: How to Make Sure Your PSA Test Is Accurate

About the Authors

Kathy Maupin, MD

Brett Newcomb, MA, LPC

Foreword

Right off the bat, you should know that I’m Dr. Kathy Maupin’s husband of forty-plus years. Kathy and I got married after her first year of medical school, so I was along for the ride, practicing law as she worked hard and progressed to become a board-certified OB/GYN.

As Kathy’s career unfolded, I also witnessed her struggle to find a way to provide her patients with a better quality of life as they aged. Because her patients were exclusively female, her sole focus was on women, and she accomplished her goal as evidenced by her first book with Brett Newcomb, The Secret Female Hormone: How Testosterone Replacement Can Change Your Life, published in six countries on four continents.

The success with her female patients led to an unexpected problem: the husbands couldn’t keep up with their revitalized wives. So, many of Kathy’s patients asked if she would treat their husbands. She was initially reluctant, not because the science of male hormonal therapy was foreign to her, but because she thought men already had good options. Then Kathy investigated those other treatment regimens and discovered they were far from satisfactory and, in fact, were sometimes dangerous. Most had very little physician oversight and took the one-size-fits-all approach, which rarely works for hormone replacement.

So Kathy did for men what she had previously done for women—she developed an individualized treatment protocol based on each patient’s thorough medical history and a complete workup using specific blood tests. By using very small pellets of bioidentical testosterone that are placed under the skin, she has been able to restore much of the vitality that her male patients enjoyed in their prime.

I became one of Kathy’s first patients and can attest to a renewal of energy, muscle tone, and overall good health. I lost weight and became leaner, and my hereditary high blood pressure and high cholesterol required far less medication.

Many of my friends have been curious about the treatment. I tell them the insertions are virtually painless and last four to six months. The treatment plan addresses far more than simply erectile dysfunction, and the benefits extend far beyond the bedroom. Of course, Kathy doesn’t tell me who her patients are, but that doesn’t stop them from telling me how BioBalance Health® has changed their lives. They are thrilled and happy to spread the word.

This book contains detailed information about testosterone hormone replacement therapy for men, set forth in a nonscientific style that allows you to discover if it could be right for you. It presents the medical situations of actual patients, showing how Kathy and her medical team assess and treat a wide range of conditions with pellet therapy and other useful alternatives.

I look forward to a long and healthy life filled with travel, golf, a new granddaughter, and all the good things that go along with them. I hope you, too, will consider bioidentical testosterone pellet therapy to enhance your life.

John Maupin, JD

Preface

After the publication of our first book, The Secret Female Hormone: How Testosterone Replacement Can Change Your Life, Brett Newcomb and I were frequently asked, When are you going to write a book about testosterone pellets for men?

I was initially reluctant to take on such a task for two reasons. First, I was trained as an OB/GYN, and my treatment of men had originally been limited to their infertility issues. When I was in medical school in the 1970s, I made a conscious decision to exclusively treat women because, frankly, male patients in that era wouldn’t listen to a female doctor. But this present generation of men is quite different, and they often prefer female physicians over male doctors. My second reason for shying away from a book about testosterone for men was that mainstream medicine was already offering men many alternatives for testosterone treatment, and they didn’t seem to need any more direction.

Both of those preconceived notions were incorrect. I started treating men when my rejuvenated female patients asked me to help their husbands get back in the game. These women wanted me to treat their husbands with the same bioidentical testosterone pellets that they themselves had received because they felt so re-enlivened. Soon, the BioBalance® method of replacing men’s testosterone using pellets gave them fuller and more robust lives, and the men were enthusiastic about their treatment and the results they’d achieved. I realized I’d found an effective and superior testosterone replacement for men and was inspired to write a book to answer the questions men have about testosterone replacement.

Most of my male patients had tried some other testosterone or ED treatment before they came to me. I quickly learned that these other treatments were frequently substandard in every respect except cost. Then I started paying greater attention to the advertising for these men’s clinics and observed that the approaches often were dangerously deficient in one or more ways, the information they presented to their patients was simply wrong, and finally, most of them didn’t use testosterone pellets. Of course, the men had no way of knowing any of this because there was no easy reference source for them.

Consequently, I recruited Brett Newcomb to work with me to write a second book about testosterone, this time aimed at a male audience. I had to continue my life’s mission of helping my patients and others live their lives to their fullest, and that meant reaching out to men.

This book addresses the questions I answer on a daily basis about what we do at BioBalance Health®, why we employ the protocols we use, how we screen patients to identify those whom we can help, and why our approach is superior to others.

This book contains real-life scenarios based on conditions I’ve treated. None of the stories are about specific patients; just the variety of situations I’ve encountered. So if a story seems personally familiar, don’t worry! It’s not about you. Readers have told us they like this approach because, from these stories, they see that they’re not alone. Others have had the same problems and challenges and have overcome them. As I tell my shy patients, Don’t worry. You can’t tell me anything I haven’t heard before.

After a full assessment of a man’s bloodwork and medical history to determine if he’ll respond well to our treatment, we administer bioidentical testosterone pellets that are made from yams and compounded by trusted pharmacists. The pellets are inserted beneath a man’s skin two or three times a year, depending on his metabolism. This is by far the most convenient, reliable, and effective treatment available anywhere today.

In this book, we also relied on Brett’s decades of experience in counseling to expand the discussion beyond the medical issues and address the relational challenges that are often present in the male-female dynamic. Sorry to disappoint some of you, but the largest sex organ in humans is the brain! And that’s why Brett’s insights are very helpful—and often transformational.

You don’t have to succumb to the diseases of aging or live the miserable life of an aging, impotent, frail old man. Testosterone pellets can change your life, as you’ll read in the pages that follow.

Kathy Maupin, MD

Founder and Medical Director

BioBalance Health® LLC

Saint Louis, Missouri

Acknowledgments

We want to express our deep and profound appreciation for the support and help we received while writing this book from our spouses, John Maupin and Phyllis Newcomb. Without their encouragement, editing, and creative support, we could never have accomplished anything as significant as a book. Their help with topics for the health podcasts we produce, their encouragement for the segments of the book that they read, and their suggestions for the phrasing and organization of our manuscript were invaluable.

We also owe an enormous debt to Joe Baalman, the COO of BioBalance Health® and BioBalance Skin®. Joe is our cameraman, our film editor, and our graphics designer, as well as our reliable anchor for keeping the businesses going while we work on learning more about hormones and the treatments we describe in this book.

As we’ve learned more about hormone treatments, particularly for men, we’ve come to rely on the contributions of Dr. Rachel Maupin Sullivan, a partner at BioBalance Health® and BioBalance Skin®. She has a driving intellect and a passionate investment in helping us learn the newest and most reliable information about changes in the thinking and practice of hormone treatments for men.

We want to express our appreciation to the BioBalance staff for their professionalism and their encouragement and support.

And finally, we want to thank our editor/publisher Nancy Erickson, The Book Professor®. Without her organizational skills and her suggestions for the content and structure of our writing, this book would never have materialized.

Chapter 1

The One Hormone Men Need to Sustain Their Youth and Health

If your doctor asked you the following question, how would you respond? If I prescribed just one hormone that would keep you healthy, strong, and fully productive from today until right before you die, would you take it?

You might jump at the opportunity and say yes right away, feeling thrilled that one simple treatment could take care of many of your physical ills for the rest of your life. But it’s more likely that you’d ask a lot of reasonable questions before you considered this a good option, such as:

Is it affordable? Yes!

Are there many side effects? No!

Is it difficult to follow the directions? No! Simply visit the doctor two or three times a year.

Will I lose any of my current skills or brain power? No!

Does it really work? Yes!

These questions are valid and should be asked about any medical treatment that sounds too good to be true. And after seeing the answers, you might have enough information to act. Or perhaps not. You might have some more personal questions for a physician like me, such as:

Would you or do you take this hormone? Absolutely! I have taken it for the last fifteen years.

Would you prescribe it to your husband? Yes! He has taken it for twelve years.

Are you healthier now than you were when you were younger—before you started this medication? I am, and I can’t imagine that I’d be working or having any fun at all if I hadn’t started taking this hormone!

Testosterone, in bioidentical form, has been hidden away in the structure of yams since they were first cultivated. It was discovered that yams contain testosterone, and the hormone is extracted in a laboratory using specific chemicals that separate the wheat from the chaff, so to speak, eliminating everything except the testosterone. The testosterone is then compounded into time-release pellets that are inserted in a man’s buttocks or love handles.

Ever since medical school, I’ve been searching for the single source of the diseases of aging and its associated disabilities. I spent a lot of time at the University of Missouri School of Medicine and at the Veterans Administration Hospital and couldn’t bear to tell my patients that they simply had to accept the fact that they could no longer walk, or drive, or stand up simply because they were old.

I couldn’t find an answer for the infirmities of aging through pharmacology, and so I began looking for a remedy at the beginning stages of life. I specialized as an