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Gonadal Hormone Suppression

Meaning

Gonadal Hormone Suppression is the clinical state or therapeutic intervention resulting in the deliberate reduction of sex hormone production, such such as testosterone and estrogen, by the gonads (testes or ovaries). This is achieved either pathologically due to disease or clinically via pharmaceutical agents like GnRH agonists or antagonists, or through surgical removal. Suppression is a critical consideration in hormonal health, often employed in the treatment of hormone-sensitive cancers or in certain protocols to reset a severely dysregulated endocrine axis.