Cholesterol: Interactions with Testosterone and Cortisol in Cardiovascular Diseases

Front Matter....Pages I-X
Cholesterol....Pages 1-2
Testosterone in the Maintenance of Life....Pages 3-3
Biochemical Relations Between Cholesterol, Testosterone, Cortisol, and Catecholamines....Pages 4-5
Fat Burns in the Flame of Carbohydrate....Pages 6-7
Free Fatty Acid Metabolism....Pages 8-8
The Nature of Cardiovascular Disease....Pages 9-12
Difficulty in Distinguishing Ageing and Pathological Processes....Pages 13-15
pH as a Variable in Metabolsim....Pages 16-16
Stress....Pages 17-17
Infarction Due to Metabolic Processes Other than Vessel Occlusion....Pages 18-21
Testosterone as an Alternative to Surgery for CVD....Pages 22-23
Diabetic States and CVD....Pages 24-28
Use of Anabolic Steroids in Surgical Stress....Pages 29-30
Increasing Testosterone and Decreasing Cholesterol by Physical Training....Pages 31-32
The Negative Nitrogen Balance....Pages 33-36
Evaluation of the Parameters of CVD....Pages 37-38
Comments on Photographs....Pages 39-45
The Balance Between Hormone Sensitive Lipase and Postheparin Lipoprotein Lipase....Pages 47-47
Treatment of CVD with Testosterone....Pages 48-50
The Ultimate Involution of the Biological Functions....Pages 51-51
Conclusion....Pages 52-52
Exchanges of Views on the Themes of the Book....Pages 53-60
Epilogue....Pages 61-63
Publications Dealing with the Effect of Testosterone on the Parameters of CVD....Pages 65-69
Back Matter....Pages 70-76