#I’ve been around. the chem block but have no medical experience or training so take this with a grain of salt

[humormehorny]

Wrote the tags before I wrote this. Because Hypothesis: if (testosterone correlated with obesity) then (we would see that trend in cis men). Looking up the research and yeah, I was absolutely right in the tags.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3955331/#:~:text=Moderate%20obesity%20predominantly%20decreases%20total,suppression%20of%20the%20HPT%20axis.

To be honest I won’t share more research because I don’t have the tools to sort the good from the bad. And some of those articles seemed pretty damning<even if they used bmi instead of anything else>. What they measured was the excess testosterone in the blood which means weight gain will lessen the effect of what ever the body has access to.

There are ways around this - specifically going to a endo and being like I need this and testing your hormones monthly or something and then dosing accordingly till you’re at the weight you want. The study that used bmi is interesting, because it doesn’t necessarily mean that you can’t be big. It just beens that you have to train.

This isn’t medical advice and I am not a professional. Everything here is speculation at best.

hi, i hope its okay to ask you for advice/information, if not then im sorry, please ignore me

so, im 10 month on t, and my endocrinologist said something about how i shouldnt gain weight because it can lessen the levels of testosterone, and i really want to become somewhat fatter. she advised me to not do that, and i don't really know how this works and whether she is fatphobic or she is right?

sorry if i worded anything weirdly, english isnt my native language and i really only get to use it online

hello there, thanks for stopping by!

first of all i wanted to say it's great that you want to put on some weight- testosterone causes weight gain for many. that's just something that's going to happen for many people who take T. weight has no bearing on the efficacy of testosterone? i've neve heard of that, what the hell is your endo on about

for reference: i've fluctuated between 260 - 360 at points throughout my adult life. i'm muscular after getting on T- very muscular. i do a lot when i'm able to. if being fat lowers testosterone levels that means almost every T user would almost instantly have their testosterone levels drop once they start gaining weight ... ?

that smells like fatphobia to me. that doesn't sit right. has anyone else heard this before? i'm sorry you got told that, that makes no sense to me. also it's not a bad thing for you to want to put on weight. this person is very biased