Shalin Shah

That's not true.

The largest randomized trial in history around testosterone was done specifically to look at testosterone and heart attack risk, and it found there was no correlation.

So that has been done and put to bed.

That study actually came out, it was the Traverse study, came out in 2023.

So it's already two and a half years old there, but it's still making its way into general

general public, but frankly, patients and providers are still just finding out about this, right?

That's one.

Second is that testosterone causes prostate cancer.

Also, a myth that's been put to bed, not just by the study that I just mentioned, but numerous other studies that have been done historically, and all the way back to the original paper that

proposed this, basically.

It was a study in the 1940s with three patients.

One was female, so you had two guys, and one guy got prostate cancer, right?

He was an older gentleman, which they all have that chance anyway.

So that's another big one.

But I think the third...

General misconception is, and I call it a misunderstanding, is just how important this is.

Again, I mentioned there's an androgen receptor on every organ in your body.

So it plays a role in your cognitive health, in your cardiovascular health, your bone health, your muscle health, your fat metabolism, even all the way down to your mitochondrial, right, which is your cellular level.

There's a role for testosterone in those processes.

So I think we've discounted how important this thing is and how helpful it can be for our general health.