Why are male testosterone levels falling?
I want to offer a counter-point to some of the opinions held about testosterone in this thread.<p>For background: I started taking lifting weights when I was 14, to train for competitive powerlifting. By the time I was 17, I was on steroids.<p>I&#x27;m in my late 20&#x27;s now, and I&#x27;ve got to be on TRT for life, due to how compromised my endogenous production of testosterone is (my Leydig&#x27;s cells no longer function. They don&#x27;t produce FSH&#x2F;LSH, which in turn means I naturally produce the Test of an 80-year-old man).<p>I got lucky in that my response to TRT puts my testosterone up around 1,100ng&#x2F;dL which is around twice what the average person has. And during my steroid use, I have bloodwork where my testosterone was over 10,000ng&#x2F;dL and e2 (estradiol) were over 200 pg&#x2F;mL.<p>You&#x27;d never know from talking to me, I&#x27;m super introverted and socially anxious. Even when I had the testosterone of quite literally 10 men, I was an introverted nerd who liked to sit quietly in my house and would prefer to lift by myself.<p>I don&#x27;t have much else to offer the thread, but I want to throw out of the notion of &quot;testosterone&#x2F;estrogen makes you some crazed he-man&quot; out as a wives tale. I think people like to use it as an excuse&#x2F;scapegoat for their behavior.<p>Actually, maybe one interesting anecdote: My sex drive was no higher on copious amounts of anabolic steroids than it was before, often times it was worse