Dr. Andrew Huberman
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We got shouts.
Well, so one of the major effects of testosterone replacement therapy is spontaneous shouting out in crowds.
Just kidding.
You know, there have been a number of studies of testosterone in males and females.
By the way, females have more testosterone than they do estrogen.
You know that, right?
Per deciliter of blood, higher testosterone than estrogen.
Just on average, on average, they tend to have lower testosterone than men per deciliter of blood.
So it's important in both males and females.
I think you're referring, James, to the use of so-called TRT in males, but I'll touch on it in females as well because low-dose TRT therapy... Oops, sorry, I just did that.
I get in trouble if you say, like, PCR reaction, ATM machine.
Is there a name for that?
Okay.
The T at the end of TRT is therapy.
Testosterone replacement therapy.
Testosterone replacement therapy technically means that someone's levels prior to that therapy fall outside the reference range, so lower than 300 nanograms per deciliter, typically, or some other array of symptoms, and they replace it, replacement therapy.
Many, many people nowadays, in my opinion, far too many and too young, take what I call
Testosterone augmentation therapy where their levels are within normal range and then they take it to get out of range and look There's nothing wrong with that.
I'm not gonna tell you what to do.
I'm not a cop you do what you want to do There are a couple things TRT or TAT Augmentation and here we're setting aside high-dose steroid use because that's just a whole other biz and and frankly it's