Derek (More Plates More Dates)

preventive really on the cutting edge tell them for sure just because they were low or like clinically low that they should replace because there's not really like uh there's no fda approved medication for women for testosterone in the u.s there is in the australia apparently which is kind of wild considering it's like the most regulated uh place ever that is like almost nothing's legal there but somehow like testosterone is for women um shockingly

But in the U.S., everything's off-label, so you're going to have to use a male formulation, androgel, and apply a pea-sized amount to your arm or something if you use it.

And even that would be done with the oversight of a pretty rigorous doctor, ideally.

And one of the things I can point to is if somebody was to go on TRT as a woman...

One of the things that would be freaking most of them out is the side effect profile that are irreversible.

Like for men, it's not a huge deal if you get a bit of a deeper voice.

Like it might be a benefit and you get a bit of hair growth, whatever.

For women, if you get irreversible voice deepening, like that is quality of life destroying for some of them.

And you can't just fix it.

So one of the things I would absolutely do...

because there are a lot of doctors now that are, like, in the cutting edge that will overshoot women based on their more, like, liberal kind of, like, women should be optimal and, like, they should be at, like, 200 total T. And I had one doctor, even when I was, like, first getting into this industry, who's, like, really respected.

I'm not going to necessarily put him on blast because hopefully he's kind of fixed his protocols, but he had a cookie-cutter protocol that was, like, way too aggressive.

And, like, I could...

He had my mom on the protocol and I picked up the phone one day and like, I didn't even recognize her voice.

I was like, what the hell?

And fortunately we like got her off it immediately.

And it's sort of like self-regulated to some extent, but it was like fast and aggressive and blatant.

And I was like, if I wasn't looking for this, like she could have been like,

for sure viralized to the point of an unrecognizable voice within a matter of weeks yeah yeah so you got to be like hyper aware even if you think you have like the most knowledgeable guy overseeing you i would recommend downloading uh like a really vetted and highly reviewed app that monitors your actual like tone of your voice to assess any sort of change in inflection tonality deepness

because that's the only thing that will assess in real time that change without just some subjective assessment from your like significant other or something because eventually if you don't when you're seeing yourself every day and it's like micro changes you don't really notice and then all of a sudden one day you notice in the mirror you have hair loss or all of a sudden you have like you know hair on your lip that you didn't have or somebody tells you like your voice sounds deeper and you didn't even realize it was happening