BLA 047: Can your low testoterone be linked to obesity?

If you have gained some weight and don't feel like your normal self, it is very common for some people to blame your testosterone levels... and you may be right... kind of. See, your testosterone levels may be low, but that actually may be coming from gaining extra weight. In this episode of the podcast we talk all about how obesity and testosterone are linked, and what we can do about it.

Chapters:

00:00 - Intro

00:25 - Obesity as a cause of low testosterone

02:49 - Does low T disrupt the HPT axis?

04:29 - The role of age with obesity and low T

05:43 - Does obesity cause low T, or is it vice versa?

06:38 - How does obesity cause low T?

12:22 - Does weight loss improve testosterone?

13:04 - How does testosterone affect body composition?

14:44 - How do we treat obesity derived hypogonadism?

18:57 - My take on this

22:05 - Outro

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