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Episode 234: The Effects of Exercise and Diet on Testosterone

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The Relationship Between Testosterone and Performance in Track and Field Sports

In women with respect to strength and testosterone levels, a meta-analysis found that testosterone levels in women were not associated with hand-and-grip strength or lean body mass. When you average all of the data together, it's like 0.31% to 1%, effectively an error bar. And then when you look at that same data set but in men, there was no correlation between testosterone and performance in these events. It doesn't really predict their performance within their sport.

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