The Reality of Testosterone and Health 🤔🤷‍♂️

Name: The Reality of Testosterone and Health 🤔🤷♂️
Uploaded: 2024-01-29T13:00:24+00:00
Duration: 30 s
Channel: Dr. Charles Mok
Description: A short YouTube segment by Dr. Charles Mok explaining practical issues around testosterone monitoring and treatment. The speaker notes that insurance…

29 Jan 2024 · 1 min

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A short YouTube segment by Dr. Charles Mok explaining practical issues around testosterone monitoring and treatment. The speaker notes that insurance coverage often uses a numeric threshold for low testosterone (~280 ng/dL) and that raising measured testosterone into the 'normal' range (example: 265 → 285 ng/dL) may not resolve symptoms such as fatigue, difficulty losing weight, or cardiovascular risk.

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Approximately 280 ng/dL.

An increase from 265 ng/dL to 285 ng/dL (moving from below to within the cited normal range).

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Most men never have elevated red blood cell counts from testosterone, at least not clinically elevated ones. Monitoring the testosterone level, it's very confusing. So when we look at the insurance basis for low testosterone treatment, the testosterone levels typically got to be low, 280. And so, theoretically, if you were 265 and you took testosterone placement, got yourself up to 285, technically, you are now normal. You're still going to feel like you're still gonna be tired, you're not gonna help you with your weight loss, it's not going to help you with your cardiovascular reduction to third, but then technically, you're in the normal range.