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How Chronic Stress is Destroying Your Testosterone #MensHealth

6 Apr 2026 · 1 min

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This content was created by Anne Truong MD. This content was uploaded by Anne Truong MD. This is a YouTube video titled "How Chronic Stress is Destroying Your Testosterone #MensHealth" (created 2026-04-06T11:01:04Z) featuring Anne Truong MD delivering an informational monologue about how stress affects the body—noting that short-term stress can be beneficial but chronic stress (beyond ~6 weeks) leads to physiological responses such as high blood pressure, weight gain, lowered testosterone, disrupted sleep and focus, and impacts on thyroid function.

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Stress comes from your thought and how you perceive the situation. The way our body is made, stress is good for us if it's short-term, but stress is not good for us if it lasts more than 6 weeks. Because when that happens, your body starts to physically respond to the stress, which is not good. Your body will respond to the stress, which then cause high blood pressure, cause weight gain, would then lower your testosterone level. It would then, it'll interrupt your sleep, interrupt your focus. So stress kind of cause an overall mess up of all your testosterone, affect your thyroid as well too.