Anne Truong MDMen's Sexual Health Doctor

How Stress Destroys Your Testosterone 📉 #Testosterone

1 Aug 2026 · 1 min

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In this YouTube segment, Dr. Anne Truong explains that chronic stress is a major, often overlooked factor that can dramatically lower testosterone levels. She outlines three physiological pathways: stress reduces testosterone production, heightens systemic inflammation, and impairs blood flow to sexual organs. Dr. Truong labels stress the "fourth pillar" of sexual health, joining the more commonly discussed pillars of diet, exercise, and sleep. To counteract this, she recommends practical stress‑management tactics: seeking professional counseling for feedback and coping strategies, and regularly engaging in enjoyable activities or sports (e.g., basketball, baseball) to calm the mind. She emphasizes that restoring a healthy sex life requires active effort to manage distress.

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It's one of the top fuckers because it's in our everyday lives and we have to recognize that. But then stress lowers testosterone levels, stress increases inflammation, stress decreases blood flow. And knowing that you have high stress, then it's best to learn how to manage that. How do you manage your stress? Sometimes seeing a counselor will help. They will provide some feedback for you. But sometimes to doing the stuff that you like to do. Like, if you like basketball, you like baseball, do more of that. Calm your mind and decrease that stress. Do whatever things that you like doing. So that is the fourth pillar is distress. And my point is it does take work from you to restore your sex life.