My husband is 48-years-old and I have noticed he seems much more lethargic in the last few years and his sex drive has diminished. Could hormone replacement help him?
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Internal Medicine, Geriatric Medicine
It is certainly possible that the symptoms you describe are partially caused by testosterone deficiency. The first step to determine if bio-identical hormone replacement therapy could help your husband would be for him to get blood tests. If those tests show a testosterone deficiency, then yes, HRT and other lifestyle modifications under a doctor’s direction could be a benefit.