Anne Truong MDMen's Sexual Health Doctor

Why Managing Your Own Testosterone Could Be Your Downfall #testosterone #sexualhealth #menshealth

5 Mar 2024 · 1 min

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A short YouTube presentation by Anne Truong MD (uploaded March 5, 2024) warning about the risks of self-managing testosterone injections. The speaker emphasizes that testosterone treatment involves complex hormonal interactions — specifically the brain↔testes negative-feedback loop — and reports patients ordering testosterone from abroad, injecting without physician oversight, skipping blood tests, and being unaware of potential side effects.

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This picture shows a complex interaction between your brain and your testicles and then the negative feedback loop of your testicles and testosterone back to your brain. So I hear stories of my patient and my friends ordering testosterone from Canada or another country gets sent to them here, and they themselves manage their own testosterone injection and don't follow up with blood work, do not see a doctor to help them manage this, and they don't know the side effects that this can cause. We're not talking about simple treatment here, we're talking about complex hormones.