Joy Kong, MDRegenerative Medicine Physician, Educator, and Entrepreneur

The Effects of TRT on the Body

2 Jul 2024 · 1 min

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A brief spoken excerpt discussing testosterone replacement therapy (TRT): it can create long-term dependence if hormones aren't carefully balanced and regularly monitored by blood/saliva testing. The speaker cites Joe Rogan as an example of someone reportedly unable to stop TRT, notes that lifelong therapy isn't necessarily harmful for wealthy individuals, and asserts that careful titration and precursor supplementation can sometimes allow patients to taper off.

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This is something that happens when men start trt. Same thing happens with women. Unless you balance out the hormone levels well and you know what you're doing and you do blood measurements and saliva measurements on the regular. There are a number of ways to accomplish those things. Some ways are more problematic than others. Joe Rogan, who's a huge fan of trt, can't get off TRT like he's now locked in. Unless there's a radical new therapy that he can take, he's going to be stuck on TRT the rest of his life. Now, that's not necessarily bad. He's got a few hundred million sitting around, so I don't think he's going to run out of resources to be able to get his trt. If you're not at that point, or if you're early in that point, or even if you've had a couple years on in TRT or on any kind of hormone replacement, there are ways to actually. You can titrate down off of them and get the right precursors to testosterone and start boosting things up, and you can often find a place that actually accomplishes both goals.