Understanding Testosterone on this edition of Truth and Love.

I'm Dale Johnson, and you're listening to Truth and Love, a podcast of the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors,

where we seek to provide biblical solutions for the problems that people face.

This week on the podcast, I'm delighted to have Dr. Dan Deyen with us. Dan has been a medical doctor

with 31 years of experience, particularly in internal medicine. If you recall, a few weeks back, Dr. Deyen was with us to talk about how we can understand hormones.

And many of you gave great feedback on that podcast.

I wanted to have him back to talk about this issue of testosterone and how it affects and impacts us. And so Dr. Dean, welcome to

the podcast. We're so grateful that you're here to talk with us about this very important subject

this week. So many times we almost exclusively place issues with hormones in the category of the

female gender.

But the reality is that all of us as human beings are made by God with hormones.

And the influence of hormones on our being, that doesn't excuse us in our responses to God.

It doesn't excuse our sinful behaviors and our sinful emotions

and our sinful actions. But the reality is that males are also influenced by testosterone as well.

So Dr. Dean, if I could ask a question, what are the things that we need to know about the

influences of male testosterone as we think through our responsibility as biblical counselors?

Thank you, Dale. One of the things that you'll see on television a lot are advertisements that ask men if they have low T.

And so a lot of times men are now thinking about that question and wondering, do I feel this

way because I have a low testosterone level? And that's not something that men thought about very

much in the past, but I get the opportunity regularly when I see my men to ask them, how's their

sexual function going? How are they feeling? And if I bring it up, they will often say,

can we check my testosterone levels?

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