A single low testosterone reading isn’t a diagnosis. I’m on TRT, and here’s how low testosterone is actually diagnosed, what TRT does, and the fertility risk young men miss.
I take two drugs that would get an Olympian banned: testosterone and a GLP-1. I will never compete, so the only thing they enhance is my ability to climb stairs and lift a barbell after 50. Here is what they actually do, and what they don’t.
I was diagnosed with anxiety in 2021, hit 373 lbs in 2024, and started TRT in 2025. The full story, the numbers, and what the discourse misses.
I tested under 300 ng/dL twice in my fifties. Here are the seven natural levers ranked by what the studies say they’re actually worth, and what I did when they weren’t enough.
