Dr. Justin Houman
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Avoid it at all costs.
If you're trying to have kids and you're a young guy, avoid it as much as you can.
Yeah.
And unfortunately, these days, it's so easy to get TRT.
People who are prescribing are telling guys about this.
That's well said.
The incentives in this industry are completely wrong.
Yeah, so varicoceles are basically varicose veins of our legs.
Think of a varicocel as varicose vein of the testicles.
So it creates basically backflow of blood around the testicle.
Testicles need to basically stay within a very narrow temperature range.
That's what the scrotum helps with.
But anyways, when blood pools around the testicle, it raises the testicular temperature.
So it causes a couple of things.
It could cause pain.
That's probably the main reason guys come in.
Causes infertility.
One of the biggest factors of male factor infertility, it caused hormonal disruption.
It could lower your T levels as well.
It can shrink the testicles.