Among young men navigating questions of energy, mood, and purpose, a medical treatment has taken on the weight of a cultural myth. Testosterone replacement therapy — legitimate in its proper clinical context — is spreading well beyond the population it was designed to serve, driven by a marketplace of certainty that has outrun the science. Medical experts are raising a quiet but serious alarm: most men seeking this treatment do not need it, and the risks of receiving it unnecessarily are neither small nor theoretical.
Testosterone Myth Spreads Among Young Men as Replacement Therapy Gains Popularity
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