With Valentine’s day on the horizon, treat your other half to something more than just socks or chocolates.

With Valentine’s day on the horizon, treat your other half to something more than just socks or chocolates.

With the colder months making everyone feel depressed and miserable, it can have an impact on daily life. But often the cold weather isn’t just to blame and the often-forgotten answer is low testosterone. This Valentine’s Day treat your loved one to a testosterone testing kit from the Leger Clinic.

As January is quite dark and with depression affecting so many, it can have a huge impact on daily life.

The traditional answer is therapy or antidepressants, but the often-forgotten answer is low testosterone.

The Leger clinic knows that depression can arise from a variety of causes – genetic, environmental, chemical, and hormonal. In men, testosterone plays a significant role in both physical and emotional wellbeing.

Low testosterone levels (hypogonadism) can lead to a host of symptoms, including depression.

Symptoms of low testosterone include:

* Depression
* Difficulty concentrating
* Erectile disfunction
* Fatigue
* Increased body fat
* Loss of libido (sex drive)

This Valentine’s Dr Doug Savage from the Leger Clinic is encouraging men to check their testosterone; “Low testosterone is far more common that people release and yet many men are not getting tested, either because they assume symptoms are normal for winter, or because hormone health is still seen as a taboo subject

With 74% of men*, unaware that testosterone is linked to anything other than sex drive, it is important to shift the awkward perceptions men have around understanding testosterone and educate on its vital importance in overall wellbeing.

Low testosterone is far more common than people release and yet many men are not getting tested, either because they assume symptoms are normal for winter or because hormonal health is still seen as a taboo subject.  Educating men on the complex role testosterone plays in their overall health is vital.