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Episode #228: Testosterone Replacement Therapy

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The Benefits of TRT for Hypogoneticism

For people who are accurately diagnosed and reasonably dosed with replacement, if that is the route they choose, it is actually quite safe. There's a really interesting study where it was a randomized double blind placebo controlled trial to investigate whether testosterone administration for three years would improve cognitive function in men age 60 years or older. After appropriate testing and work up, there are many treatment options, but again, testosterone is not like this panacea that treats everything. The secular trend may be going down for total testosterone, but this is likely due to chronic disease, like overweight obesity type two diabetes, et cetera,. We'll see you next week and every week right here on the Barbara Medicine podcast.

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