Vitamin E and Heart Disease and Mortality... too much Testosterone?

Copyright 2004, James Michael Howard, Fayetteville, Arkansas, U.S.A.

While controversial, support exists that testosterone increases
mortality in men and women.  Testosterone is not "the male hormone,"
males simply produce more of it.  Increased "morbidity and mortality"
are a concern for women with androgen excess (Am J Med. 1995 Jan
16;98(1A):137S-143S).

Vitamin E stimulates testosterone production in men (Endocrinol Jpn.
1982 Jun;29(3):287-92).  (I could not find a connection in women.)  If
testosterone really does have a connection with increased morbidity
and mortality, it may be that the increased mortality now attributed
to excess vitamin E may be due to increased levels of testosterone.