Dispelling Testosterone Optimization Therapy Myths Part 2 with with Keith Nichols MD
The Jay Campbell Podcast
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Testosterone Therapy and Secondary Erythrosatosis
Testosterone therapy and the secondary erythrosatosis from it has never been shown to cause blood clots in any randomized controlled trial or prospective study today. The upper limit of normal for hematocrit really in most laboratory ranges for healthy adult male is 54%. And that's where they likely derived that number from. That number arbitrarily chosen. It wasn't that exceeding has ever been shown to be dangerous. There are over 80 million people that live at an altitude higher than 2500 meters, right? And they develop a secondary erythyrosatosis. With a secondary rithrosytosis you get with testosterone, there's also an increase in blood volume which doesn't
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