Anabolic Therapies For Elderly

Involuntary weight loss is the result of many chronic progressive diseases, often leading to diminished lean body mass, frailty, susceptibility to illness, and increased mortality. Various anabolic agents have been used to combat weight loss with mixed results. Similar to the frustration experienced by advocates of weight loss in the obese, none of the pharmacological appetite stimulants available at the current time have been uniformly successful in combating involuntary weight loss in the elderly population. Some of these agents have been U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved to combat weight loss, and others are used off-label for this purpose.

Anabolic therapies have been useful in the treatment of many diseases and illness conditions. The progress and medical usage of anabolic therapies are getting wider acceptance in medical application. This article is a comprehensive technical and anabolic therapy, covering a broad range of diseases and conditions. Beginning with a description of anabolic steroids and their medical histories, the author of a justification for the use of anabolic steroids in the treatment of sarcopenia, offers TSA-induced and postmenopausal osteoporosis, hormone replacement therapy in women, osteoporosis in men and andropause of autoimmune diseases ELA, chronic fatigue syndrome, Multiple slcerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, Sjogren’s syndrome, lupus erythematosus and systemic sclerosis and a number of other medical applications.