Human Bodies Under Stress Produce Various Testosterone Ratios

Human bodies under stress from an injury, physical stress and emotional stress can throw various testosterone ratios completely out of balance. Now then let's discuss the issues with Floyd Landis in the Tour de France.

Floyd had been in the Yellow Jersey days the prior and then was way back in 11 th place and this caused severe emotional stress. Floyd Landis was riding in pain and with a degenerative hip an injury, which could easily throw his body out of wack especially considering he denied the pain and kept riding even harder. Next consider that to go from eleventh place and back into the Yellow Jersey took extra ordinary strength of character and physical torture again throwing Testosterone into non-typical ratios.

These three events occurring in a rider of that level; the best bicycle rider in the World during that time, anything can happen. Additionally, lets talk about Politics in cycling and the French in general. We know that they tried to attack Lance Armstrong and make up claims that he was doping. Did Floyd Landis really cheat? Was Floyd Landis really involved in doping? Does Floyd Landis need to dope up to win? Well, I think not. Consider all this in 2006.

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What is stress?

Stress (roughly the opposite of relaxation) is a medical term for a wide range of strong external stimuli, both physiological and psychological, which can cause a physiological response called the general adaptation syndrome, first described in 1936 by Hans Selye in the journal Nature.
An emotionally disruptive or upsetting condition occurring in response to adverse external influences and capable of affecting physical health which can be characterized by increased heart rate, a rise in blood pressure, muscular tension, irritability and depression. Stress does not cause migraine but can be a migraine "trigger".
A condition in which the organism is subjected to unfavourable or unfamiliar environmental conditions, resulting in some alteration in normal physical functioning. Short-term stress can often be overcome. Long-term stress can reduce resistance to disease and parasites, inhibit self-healing processes, and reduce life-span.