Testosterone increase and sport

There have been some studies on sporting activity and prostate cancer. Bottom line is it will not do any harm and it almost certainly will do good. The current interest is in weight training  - including serious weight training - and prostate cancer simply because weight training may help mitigate the effects of hormone and/or salvage therapy (inc. radiotherapy). This specifically in relation to weight gain, energy levels, loss of muscle mass, decrease in bone density. At the moment, again, no adverse impact but some slight indication of benefit. At the end of the day no amount of exercise/training etc. is going to increase testosterone to a level that will be a problem (as far as literature on the subject goes). On the other hand exercise/training etc. may mitigate problems associated with treatment. If you search Google Scholar for strings like 'prostate cancer exercise', 'prostate cancer weight training' etc. you will at minimum be able to see the abstracts.

Hi Saudade,

Thank you for the encouraging reply. However, when google and researching sport and testosterone increase i found many articles like this:

https://www.menstclinic.com/blog/can-exercise-increase-your-testosterone

Of course sport helps to mitigate side effects of HT and RT, help with fatigue, weight gain and mental health but if certain sports increase the T should PC men avoid these type of exercises?

Best wishes

Dafna

Dafna, Hi. I think a couple of things. Yes, exercise increases testosterone - assuming you are not having hormone therapy. However, the level of increase is negligible and, according to the relevant literature (medical research reported in peer reviewed relevant medical journals) it is not enough to have any impact on prostate cancer. Of course it is a concern, one I faced myself. I started serious weight training in order to mitigate the impact of PC and the treatment. I had the same concern: 'Wait a minute! Weight training produces more testosterone than any other exercise (probably)!! Should I be doing this?!' So I looked into it. And the answer is, it is not going to have any detrimental impact but it almost certainly will have a positive impact. Certainly the consensus is that exercise is good - especially weight training. It is worth learning how to use Google Scholar as you will get the real research findings rather than the pop versions and weighted opinions that tend to circulate on the generic websites. Hope that helps to set your mind at rest. If not, feel free to follow up further. BW  Saudade

OK. Thats frustrating. The system lost my reply. So, again, in brief. Yes exercise increases testosterone. However, the amount is negligible and the consensus in the medical research community is that it is not enough to impact on PC. Quite the opposite. Exercise, including strenuous exercise and weight training will almost certainly help mitigate the impact of PC and of treatment. Indeed, there is increasing encouragement for men to engage with weight training to mitigate PC and also take part in endurance events. The pop/lay websites tend to report poorly on these matters and oversimplify them and that can cause concern. If you look at the relevant literature - papers published in relevant peer reviewed medical journals - there is no reason to be concerned and every reason to take part in exercise, weight training, endurance training, and so on. Hope that helps. BW Saudade

Thank you Saudade for that. I appreciate your advise on that and I get that lay website are just easy read and not accurate. 

Many thanks and take care

Dafna

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