Good news for low testosterone patients ! The FDA finally dropped the archaic “cardiac risk” label on the hormone.

https://www.medpagetoday.com/endocrinology/steroids/114458?xid=nl_mpt_DHE_2025-03-03&mh=22c3cd8ebe0a923b5ca6e6e20f1222e0&zdee=gAAAAABm4uK279jdo8CafLOm4JPz0sgm8eROJ6H7GdfxGvH9_dh-e3vaHvPfFgfVvLTOrVxu7IzgOZjaDOo5SqXSuPk5o185gqPs7KYIv4wO-rjbk3ZgvV0%3D&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily%20Headlines%20Evening%20-%20Randomized%202025-03-03&utm_term=NL_Daily_DHE_dual-gmail-definition

Testosterone is one of the most important hormones for both men and women. Many do not know that women need testosterone just as badly as men do, and both experience testosterone decline as we hit “middle age”. Peri and post-menopausal women experience low sex drive because…..you guessed it…..their testosterone levels have dropped.

In a junk study done 80 years ago on prostate cancer patients, it was determined that testosterone was a “cardiac and prostate cancer risk”. I cannot count how many of my patients have been chastised and berated for using T therapy due to low T levels. And we are seeing younger and younger men with low T levels. I have a 20-ish old male who’s T level is that of a 50 year old man. I blame GMO’s and hormones in food among other things. However, most providers refuse to treat low T levels due to “cardiac risk”.

A good friend of mine, who is a cardiologist, agrees that it is junk science that led to the cardiac risk of testosterone. And FINALLY……their morons at the FDA agree and removed the cardiac and stroke risk off the hormone. Now I hope that more providers decide to appropriately treat low T, rather than forcing people to utilize expensive T clinics for treatment. It truly is a game changer and oftentimes low T is what is wrong, not depression. When T levels are therapeutic, mood symptoms generally clear up and patients return to normal baseline mood.