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Episode #232: Optimal Testosterone Levels For Health and Performance

Barbell Medicine Podcast

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The Role of Hormones in Thyroid Stimulation

In men, we know that total testosterone levels are positively correlated with lean body mass and inversely correlated with adipose tissue. What you don't know is how over time do these testosterone levels predict changes in lean body mass, changes in fat mass, et cetera? And when this has actually been studied, there's effectively no influence of these baseline levels in the change in lean bodyMass and Adipose Tissue. Again, this implies that body composition affects hormone levels and not necessarily the reverse.

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