I swear, there are new posts every 30 seconds about T levels and how everything wrong is always T related?

Is it the commercials? The Men's clinics that pop up everywhere?

What ever happened to diet, sleep and exercise? Now, I am not saying that there aren't people with actual issues but what about going to a regular GP for a comprehensive blood panel, annually, so you can get a baseline and figure out what else could be wrong.


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  1. People swarm to a quick fix vs hard work and time.

    Obviously accept for the people who generally require TRT.

  2. I’m not sure, but there’s been a pretty big proliferation of steroid use in the past few years. What’s really depressing is that teenagers as young as 15 are jumping on board

  3. Dunno about others but I tried everything diet, sleep etc and I struggled with the brain fog, indecisiveness low t symptoms

    3 weeks after starting medically diagnosed TRT I felt like myself again – genuinely like someone saved my life

    If others had a similar result to me, I can understand posting about it đź’Ş

  4. Some people don’t like to admit that they have emotions, so they say things like “I have low T” or “my chakras are misaligned” or “my vagus nerve is malfunctioning” instead of just saying “I’m sad”.

  5. It’s the typical “Influencers and other Marketers are trying to convince you that something is wrong with you so they can sell you “solutions”. “

  7. There was just another thread about this where someone boldly proclaimed 8 years of TRT with ZERO side effects.

    In the very next sentence the went on to list multiple side effects.

    I’ll let you do the math.

  8. I got my levels checked after a barrage of Instagram ads finally got to me. It wasn’t “haha your hair and libido are fucked” it was “dude are you tired *all the fucking time*?”

    Doc gave my back my results (normal) and then gently explained that three meals a day and 8 hours of sleep is not optional anymore. The days of redbull and all nighters are long gone.

  9. I think it’s because people are spammed with commercials and videos on social media telling them that it’s an issue. Also, highly processed food that is causing similar issues (at least in America). We are being poisoned and then profited off. I saw an article that the average 25 year old now has the same t levels as the average 75 year old 100 years ago.

  12. Did the lifestyle changes did not affect it one bit. Went for shot, life changed.

    Sorry but sometimes you can’t fix a hormone imbalance with all the good choices in the world.

  13. Making impactful lifestyle changes is much harder than just getting a shot. Many people simply can’t commit to it, so TRT is offered more and more. Same reason why Ozempic has become super prevent for weight loss.

    T-levels are also an in-thing in the biohacking alpha-bro podcasting world. This increases discourse has spilled out into the real world and lots of men have latched onto it.

    There are some men that suffer from low T to the point where TRT is warranted (ie. Natural strategies to raise their testosterone have all failed), but I do think too many men are jumping on the hormone replacement therapy train. It’s amazing how many men I speak with where they went out seeking TRT without actually having low-T levels. They’re all shocked when it does very little for them.

  14. > What ever happened to diet, sleep and exercise?

    Microplastics or whatever it is that has caused men’s testosterone levels to drop by like 50% since 1970s. Unless it was all that tobacco, lead, and asbestos that made men so healthy back in 1970s and kept their testosterone levels high. 

  17. For me… I tested 284 total T at 45yrs old. Endo would not RX T. I lost 80 lbs over 5yrs, walking, running, gym. T tested again.. a whopping 307. Lifestyle changes didn’t do much for me.

  18. So you’re saying I can pay for:
    A clearer mind
    Better sleep
    Reduced anxiety
    Reduced depression
    Increased motivation
    Increased sex drive
    Better workout recovery
    Sharper focus

    And I’m more jacked?

    Better living through chemistry. The world is fucked, I may as well enjoy my existence. This is a no brainer. TRT rules. YMMV

  19. My T levels are great, free T is great, etc. 

    Think I’m around 600 all natural. 

    My older brother had fatigue and thyroid issues for years, even some seasonal depression in winters. He checked his T and it was like 220. 

    He takes T now, he sits around 550. He says the difference is night and day and it even helped with his thyroid. 

    After seeing how much more active he is and how happy he is I came to the conclusion that if I ever dropped below 300 I’d start taking T as well.

  20. I’ve always been of the school of thought that you should try everything you can yourself (diet, exercise, sleep, routine changes, etc.) before reaching for the pharmaceuticals. Those should be a last resort.

  21. I’ve been really healthy and in the gym most of my life. I played baseball all the way from tee ball to getting drafted late in the first round and played for poverty wages in Triple A for a couple of years until I medically retired. After recovery, I went back into the gym and continued training because that’s all I’ve really known since high school.

    I started feeling absolutely slammed by 1-2pm everyday. I lacked motivation and desire to do basic or even fun things. I thought I was depressed, my doctor thought I had sleep apnea. Finally he just ran a test for everything and my testosterone came back in the high 200s when it averaged through my college and pro career in the 800-900 range. He didn’t recommend lifestyle changes because I was already at 15-17% body fat at 6’2 210lbs. I slept well, I had a healthy diet, and I carried very little stress. He put me on 100mg/mL weekly and a month in I was feeling as good as I did in college.

    It felt like it saved my life.

  22. I’m not going to weigh in on whether or not people should get on TRT. I don’t need it so I’m not going to judge.

    However, one thing I absolutely will judge is all the people who blame society for their problems and whine about male bashing when their choices are questioned.

    Number one: Take responsibility for your own actions and don’t blame society or anyone else.

    Number two: If you make a decision, stand by it and let that be that. Nobody needs to hear you getting defensive and whining just because they want to question a phenomenon that is new (everybody wasn’t on TRT until pretty recently) and pretty extreme (taking hormonal drugs for the rest of your life).

    TRT seems to solve some real problems for some people. For others, it’s clearly a bandaid over other problems. Other people basically just want to be on gear to remain youthful into old age. There are all kinds of reasons to get on TRT, some medically necessary and others not. It’s ok to question this, especially if you are considering whether you want to do it yourself or not.

  23. Diet, sleep, and exercise dont always solve the problem. Are you a medical professional?

  24. What is wrong with getting your T levels checked and then fixing it? Like imagine that you feel like everything is fine…but your T levels are low, shouldn’t you still want to increase them back to normal before it becomes an issue?

    I’m not on T, but if my blood levels came back saying I was low, I’d raise it back up. It’s 2026, I’m going to look at science to give me more than what “good sleep, good diet, and fitness” already is doing for me. I think most people are assuming that they’re already getting as much good sleep, good diet, and fitness as they can tolerate in their life, in a capitalist world where we’re often expected to spend more than 40 hours a week (for me, it’s 60-90) making other people money to maintain our family lifestyle.

  25. Because sometimes a lifestyle change isn’t enough and many would rather do that than ruin their life. 

    Oh and obviously there is a lot of money to be made so there will be a ton of advertisement. 

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