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Testosterone Replacement Therapy (aka T-Therapy or TRT) Is a Hormone Therapy That Boosts Testosterone in Men’s Bodies

Joe Rogan -- A Popular Podcaster -- Uses T-Therapy. He Says He Likes It Because He Feels Like He’s “Cheating Old Age and Death” -- Rolling Stone

The FDA: Not So Fast, Rogan. You shouldn’t use T-therapy to reverse or stop aging

Harvard Health also urges caution: It’s only for men who lack testosterone. T-therapy could give you heart problems in the long run

GQ is somewhat more positive: The number of men on T-therapy quadrupled from 2003-2013. It’s revolutionizing how men age!

The NYT Reports That Lots of Men Were Looking for T-Therapy Online During the Pandemic. But Online T-Therapy Is a Double-Edged Sword -- It’s More Accessible, but for Some Men, That Does More Harm Than Good

And It Didn’t Work for the Author of This Cushing Disease News Op: It Gave Him Really Bad Side Effects!

OTOH, The Guardian said it worked for these people! Some men found that T-therapy gave them a new lease on life

This NYT Op has a different reason for being anti: Why can’t men just “age gracefully”? Maybe the real problem they’re trying to fix is in their lifestyle choices -- why not try to change those before doing T-therapy?

But maybe the uptick in T-therapy has nothing to do with men’s relationship with aging. A Yale Med paper writes that from 1996-2016, testosterone levels went down among young men. It blames a higher BMI