The Low Down on Low T
Medgeeks with Andrew Reid
Medgeeks
4.8 • 997 Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2022
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
There is a long history of pseudoscience about low testosterone. There are a lot of "golden cures" out there. Here, we will try and debunk some of the myths of low testosterone.
Join Dr. Niket Sonpal, and see how you can help diagnose your patient's low testosterone, and how to treat it. What the symptoms your patient might have and how to manage your patients that may clinically have it.
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| 0:00.0 | In the news recently, there's been a concern for declining virility, in other words, low testosterone. |
| 0:06.0 | Tucker Carlson from Fox News actually got involved with this and has created a product that he claims will help boost your testosterone. |
| 0:15.0 | He's so much behind it that he actually created a video about a naked man atop a rock pile, |
| 0:20.0 | limbs are handing out, exposing his genitalia to a red light from what appears to be a very high wasted air purifier. |
| 0:28.0 | It looks like something out of Star Wars. |
| 0:30.0 | And this is the treatment proposed by Tucker Carlson's documentary that you can revive your underperforming testicles with red light and a device known as Juve. |
| 0:41.0 | And if you were to ask any physician, including endocrinologists, we all know that this is completely |
| 0:46.4 | ridiculous. In fact, there is a long history of pseudoscience for low testosterone, |
| 0:51.8 | virility, and none of these have ever panned out to be useful over time. |
| 0:56.4 | And it was because of this that I thought, well, you know, what's a great idea for a podcast, |
| 1:01.4 | one in which we actually talk about the truth behind what low testosterone is, what symptoms the patients are going to have, how to diagnose it, and then how to treat it. |
| 1:12.0 | Now this topic is very clinically relevant not just |
| 1:14.0 | because of Tucker Carlson and Fox News but because of the |
| 1:17.1 | bombardment of misinformation towards your patients from social media and |
| 1:21.1 | various for-profit organizations. |
| 1:23.7 | Now there are some out there that are truly trying to help, like get Roman which is going to do |
| 1:27.5 | a proper work up with physicians. |
| 1:29.9 | But there are tons of sort of snake oil salesmen out there that are going to be trying to |
| 1:34.3 | promise the golden cure to make you feel young again, to feel viral again, not viral but |
| 1:39.7 | virile, and of course to get your testosterone boosted with this food or that thing or this |
| 1:45.3 | device and so ladies and gentlemen welcome to this week's podcast where we go into |
| 1:50.0 | some of the myths about low testosterone and then actually how to manage your patients who |
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