Testosterone for Weight Loss: Studies

Name: Testosterone for Weight Loss: Studies
Uploaded: 2025-01-08T13:01:13+00:00
Duration: 47 s
Channel: Dr. Charles Mok
Description: Dr. Charles Mok reviews studies on testosterone and weight loss. A trial gave 100 mg testosterone pellets to overweight women around 50 and saw modest…

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Dr. Charles Mok reviews studies on testosterone and weight loss. A trial gave 100 mg testosterone pellets to overweight women around 50 and saw modest weight loss in six months versus placebo. In men, low testosterone correlates with fat gain, while testosterone replacement increases lean mass and reduces fat over time.

Questions this video answers

Single 100 milligram testosterone pellet.

Perimenopausal women around 50 years old who were overweight.

Six months.

Placebo group (no testosterone).

No — the speaker says testosterone "doesn't make the weight fall off, but it favors weight loss over the long haul."

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Testosterone as a standalone is effective for women for weight maintenance. The largest study that I'm aware of for weight loss, specifically in perimenopausal women, was using testosterone as a single dose, 100 milligrams as a pellet in women that were in perimenopause around 50 years old, that were overweight. And there's another group that were placebos, in other words, getting nothing. At the end of six months, the women on testosterone had lost a little bit of weight, and the women on nothing had gained a little bit of weight. For men, we see the same thing. When your testosterone is low, you will put on fat. And longitudinal studies and long term studies show that testosterone doesn't make the weight fall off, but it favors weight loss over the long haul. So the longer a man who is on testosterone replacement, the better his lean body mass gets and the lower his fat becomes.