Men's Health

IS T KEY TO VITALITY?

FOR A LONG TIME, we accepted certain changes as the price (and privilege) of getting older. Your hair turns gray. Your hearing starts to… wait, what was that you said? And, of course, your testosterone level drops. But with a boom in testosterone-replacement clinics—by this point, who hasn’t gotten an ad for a service offering to test your T for under $100?—and podcasts and influencers preaching the powers of hormone optimization, should guys over 40 think about winding back their T clocks? And by how much? Here’s what to know.

T CAN HELP YOU LIVE LONGER

of testosterone is associated with a shorter life. “We now have several decades of high-quality research showing remarkable longevity and. That’s true whether guys have healthy levels naturally or underwent testosterone-replacement therapy to bring their levels out of the low range.

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