Buckle up!

To set the stage, let’s start with a few (rather troubling) statistics. According to Harvard, the United States consumes 40% of the entire world’s pharmaceuticals – despite having only 5% of the world’s population. It’s worth noting this is a conservative estimate. Many others estimate we consume 70-90% of all the world’s drugs! 

And get this – in 2022, the top 20 ‘Big Pharma’ companies combined to generate over $500B in revenue. Despite all that spending on research,  the US globally ranks a lowly 46th in life expectancy…

That barely beats many 3rd world countries!

What’s up with that!? 🧐 

“OK.. So what does that have to do with testosterone and male hormone levels??”

So keep in mind – in the 1920’s, average T levels for healthy were 800 ng/mL (nanograms per deciliter). And back the, young men went on fight in two world wars, built railroads across the US, and built the infrastructure for America as we know it today. But now, average T levels are BARELY HALF of what those men had. So while average men a century ago stormed the beaches of Normandy, many men today can barely run a mile..

We simply can’t overstate this enough.. America is not only facing a health crisis. We’re facing a hormone imbalance crisis!

In a healthy society, young men in their late teens, twenties, and thirties SHOULD naturally have testosterone rates between 800-1200 ng/mL. But here’s where it get’s crazy.. Conventional doctors will tell you that, “Oh Jimmy, you’re just fine as long as levels are between 265-900 ng/mL.” And if you think we’re kidding, go track down your lab results from the last time you had an annual physical. It’ll show that ‘clinically acceptable’ levels are in that 265-900 range. 

To drive the point home, here’s a Medical News Today article that backs up the position of conventional healthcare providers.

You might be thinking, “Something doesn’t add up here..” 

And you’d be absolutely right. That’s because it doesn’t!

Here’s another strange reality of our society – every year, pharmaceutical companies spend endless millions of dollars to lobby the government, medical schools, and healthcare providers. And they spend millions more to fund  ‘scientifically-backed medical research’. However, more often than not, these studies bend scientific truths to fit their narratives – which then enable them to continue spending millions of dollars on lobbying. 

Funny how that works, isn’t it?

If this makes you feel uneasy, it’s not your fault. It’s probably because like most of our patients – you feel like you’ve been misled for most of your life. That’s not a comfortable truth to face!

Still, this leads us to the REAL REASON than clinically acceptable levels for TRT aren’t 800-1200 ng/mL. It’s because companies want to continually profit off having doctors continue pushing antidepressants, ADHD medication, ED medication, and so on (it’s almost like it’d make too much sense to treat root causes instead of symptom after symptom!).

Let’s clear the air..

To be fair, there’s plenty of good things pharma companies do too. We’re not going to advocate for them to all get disbanded or anything radical like that. And TRT isn’t a silver bullet for everything by any means. However, hormone balance can & should serve as the bedrock for optimal health and wellness. 

Also, there’s no denying that public health would be in MUCH BETTER state if American medicine even slightly cared about ‘clinicially acceptable’ hormone levels being far outside healthy boundaries.