Martin M. Miner, MD

Martin M. Miner, MD

Miriam Hospital

Providence, Rhode Island

Martin M. Miner, MD, is founder and internist at the Lifespan Men’s Health Center and former chair of the Department of Family Medicine for Miriam Hospital in Providence, Rhode Island. He is also a clinical professor of family medicine and urology at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University in Providence. Dr. Miner earned his MD at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine in Ohio. He completed his residency at Brown University and spent time working with the Indian Health Service Corps and the Public Health Service. Dr. Miner presently holds memberships in the American Academy of Family Physicians, the Rhode Island and Massachusetts Academy of Family Physicians, and the American Urological Association (AUA), and is a Fellow of the Sexual Medicine Society of North America. He is president-elect of the Androgen Society and has participated as a member of the AUA in the development of guidelines for erectile dysfunction, Peyronie's disease, testosterone deficiency, and early screening for prostate cancer. He is the former president of the American Society of Men’s Health. Dr. Miner has published extensively in the areas of erectile dysfunction and cardiovascular disease, benign prostatic hyperplasia, and lower urinary tract symptoms, as well as male sexuality and hormone replacement therapy in men.

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Talks by Martin M. Miner, MD

Testosterone as a Fasting Blood Test?

Posted by | Jan 2022

Mark A. Moyad, MD, MPH, the Jenkins/Pokempner Director of Preventive/Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) at the University of Michigan Medical Center in the Department of Urology in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and Martin M. Miner, MD, Co-Director of the Men’s Health Center and Chief of Family and Community Medicine for Miriam Hospital, and Clinical Professor of Family Medicine and Urology at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, discuss recent guidance suggesting that a fasting blood test is needed for testosterone. Dr. Moyad begins by explaining that in 2018, the Endocrine Society Clinical Practice Guidelines included a recommendation of measuring fasting morning testosterone. He suggests that this is a logical recommendation since, in a subset of men, testosterone levels may be temporarily lowered by food intake, but notes that this guidance does not appear to be widely known or followed. Dr. Miner says that he actually does usually include testosterone with other morning fasting tests to meet the demands of insurance, although he argues that this may also result in inaccurate levels since testosterone is supposedly at its peak in the afternoon. He also mentions that the American Urological Association does not recommend getting testosterone tested in a fasting specimen, although he is unsure why this is. Dr. Moyad concludes that this is a topic that is just beginning to be explored and should be watched. 

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Testosterone, Weight Loss / Weight Gain, and Testosterone Replacement Therapy (TRT)

Posted by | Jan 2022

Mark A. Moyad, MD, MPH, the Jenkins/Pokempner Director of Preventive/Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) at the University of Michigan Medical Center in the Department of Urology in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and Martin M. Miner, MD, Co-Director of the Men’s Health Center and Chief of Family and Community Medicine for Miriam Hospital, and Clinical Professor of Family Medicine and Urology at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, investigate the ways in which body mass index (BMI) correlates with testosterone levels and how this knowledge can be used in a medical setting. Dr. Moyad begins the discussion with Dr. Miner’s presentation on the possibility of testosterone needs increasing as BMI increases, wherein Dr. Miner found that obese men required higher doses of testosterone to reach eugonadal levels than men who were not obese. Dr. Miner states that he expects the results of a long-term safety study of testosterone will soon show that testosterone therapy is safe over the long term, allowing physicians and researchers to focus on the symptomatic benefit of testosterone in areas such as mood and cardiovascular risk. Dr. Moyad asks if weight loss and increased fitness could possibly reduce the need for testosterone therapy, to which Dr. Miner responds that it may be possible if both weight loss and a reduction in comorbidities occur but it is unlikely in patients over 60. They conclude that weight loss can help make testosterone therapy more effective but it is unclear if it would be enough to reduce testosterone therapy altogether because of a multitude of genetic variables.

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