The Effects of Hormone Replacement Therapy on Testosterone Production

Once your body produces enough testosterone, it's going to tell the pituitary gland, all right, we don't need anymore. But what happens when people take the testosterone replacement therapy is that that's what it says, it says shut it off. So if something goes wrong in that signaling, obviously if you're producing like excess cortisol production,. It's initially interestingly coming from the same place as the testosterone production but they act opposite of one another.