Testosterone: Do We All Need a Boost?
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Testosterone: Do We All Need a Boost?

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 22, 202639 min
  • Health

We’re hearing a ton about the marvels of testosterone from influencers, celebrities, and even government officials. They say we should be thinking about our T levels, topping them off with extra if they’re too low. And we’re told that the benefits of testosterone are HUGE: that we’ll be stronger, sexier, and more energized. So is that true?? And if you do go for a testosterone bump, do you need to worry about possible side effects, like ’roid rage, infertility and other risks? We talk to endocrinologists Prof. Shalender Bhasin and Prof. Richard Auchus as well as social...

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Should you take testosterone? Hi, I'm Wendy Zuckerman, and this is Science Versus. All over the internet, people are saying that you need to be thinking about your testosterone. Taking tea used to be something mostly done by bodybuilders.

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But now it's pretty mainstream, with prescriptions for tea going up more than 10 times over the last two decades. That's according to an analysis from the New York Times. And our obsession with testosterone reached new heights when earlier this year, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth

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announced that he wants to screen soldiers for low testosterone in order to create a high-tea department of war. Why? As we know, the modern battlefield is brutal and unrelenting.

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