{"id":45206,"date":"2023-05-24T22:11:06","date_gmt":"2023-05-24T12:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=45206"},"modified":"2023-05-24T22:11:06","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T12:11:06","slug":"testosterone-drop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=45206","title":{"rendered":"Testosterone Drop"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Testosterone<\/p>\n

Not quite. According to\u00a0 https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/factcheck\/2022\/05\/09\/fact-check-testosterone-levels-lower-25-1999-2016\/7381735001\/<\/a><\/p>\n

The article refers to data from studies in 2007 and 2021, both of which looked at the testosterone levels of men in the United States.<\/p>\n

Fact check: Experts say diet, exercise \u2013 not hormones \u2013 are primary drivers of weight gain<\/p>\n

Both studies observed significant reductions in testosterone levels over time. In the 2007 study, testosterone decreased by about 22% when comparing 1985-1987 levels to those from 2002-2004. In the 2021 study, researchers found a roughly 25% decrease between 1999 and 2016.<\/p>\n

These numbers mean that the claim in the Twitter post isn’t true, according to Dr. Ranjith Ramasamy, a urologist at the Miami University Miller School of Medicine and author of the 2021 study.<\/p>\n

“Neither of these studies assessed men over the last two decades, and the percent change was not close to 50%, so it is inaccurate to say that average testosterone has fallen almost 50% over the last 2 decades,” Ramasamy wrote in an email.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Not quite. According to\u00a0 https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/factcheck\/2022\/05\/09\/fact-check-testosterone-levels-lower-25-1999-2016\/7381735001\/ The article refers to data from studies in 2007 and 2021, both of which looked at the testosterone levels of men in the United States. Fact check: Experts say diet, exercise \u2013 not hormones \u2013 are primary drivers of weight gain Both studies observed significant reductions in testosterone levels over … <\/p>\n

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