Questioning Medicine
Episode 206: 206. Testosterone Replacement Therapy
- Autor: Vários
- Narrador: Vários
- Editor: Podcast
- Duración: 0:22:45
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YES!! Marketing!! No man wants to admit his gonads dont work so they would never say I have hypogonadism. Most men would never say I have andropause cause that is too close to menopause but if you call it low testosterone then all of a sudden men come out of the wood work like cave men to get some of this magical drug they have heard so much about.YES LIKE LOW T WILL KILL YOU!!!! "could kill you". -https://abcnews.go.com/Health/ActiveAging/story?id=3247773&page=1https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M19-0882?_ga=2.162179964.190727375.1667239768-1195431333.1667239768&"It is estimated that approximately 35% of men older than 45 years of age and 30-50% of men with obesity or type 2 diabetes have hypogonadism". from endocrine.org. https://www.endocrine.org/patient-engagement/endocrine-library/hypogonadism However, for a 30 yr old male the low end of normal is around 300 ng/dL! YET this is what most websites and recommendations use as the treatment cutoff for all men. 50, 60, 70 yr olds. we compare those