Peter Attia, M.D.

Which is one reason to consider scheduling it is the potential for abuse is much more significant in younger men who might not realize.

And sadly, a number of them don't realize, hey, if I take this stuff for three years in my 20s, it could significantly and potentially permanently affect my fertility.

I just don't have experience with it because it's simply not our patient population.

So I can't speak to that at all.

And my guess is everything you're describing would be...

more the result of abuse.

I don't like using a judgy term like that.

I reserve that term for non-medical use that is hyperphysiologic.

But here's the thing.

I have a really hard time believing that a 25-year-old should ever be on exogenous testosterone.

I have to plead ignorance here.

I really have no sense of how widely.

No, I think social media.

Yeah.

But to be clear, when I was 28, 29, 30, so when I was in my residency, my testosterone level was 220 nanograms per deciliter.

I was 2x the level of a woman instead of 10x, 5x or whatever, right?

But did that mean that I should have been on TRT when I was 30?

Definitely not.

No, it meant that I needed to get the hell out of residency and actually start sleeping at night.

Yeah.