Professor Vaibhav Modgil

There's another thing taking testosterone, which you think is testosterone, but you don't really know where it's come from.

You don't know how much of what is in the injection.

And you've no way of measuring the outcomes.

So it's dangerous.

It's very dangerous.

And, you know, across the board with testosterone, you know, there was a time when it was seen as the sort of fix it all agent.

Then there was a time where it was very much the villain.

And the truth is, is neither.

Mm hmm.

Testosterone replacement therapy performed appropriately in a patient that needs it, and we can come on to why they might need it, is absolutely the right thing to do.

But testosterone in a young man, for example, will make them infertile.

Now, in my practice, when I see young men taking testosterone,

And it's all the things that you would expect, you know, in terms of their reasoning.

They want quick gains for the effort that they're putting in.

Some might not be putting that much effort in, but they still want quick gains.

Now others are putting an incredible amount of effort in, but they want to feel like Superman.

And testosterone can make some people feel like Superman.

It will do because there's a reason it's banned in elite sport.

But the negative impacts of that

in terms of fertility, in terms of the effect that it can have on your full blood count, the risk to your heart, it's colossal.