Testosterone-maxxing encourages young men – mostly teenage boys – to increase their testosterone levels, either naturally — through diet — or by taking synthetic hormones.
Non-compulsory guidelines allow for national federations to determine that testosterone suppression is required for eligibility to compete in female categories.
Study published in JAMA Network Open journal urges caution against ongoing clinical trials probing hormonal therapies as a treatment for men with Covid.
Study by Turkish researchers, published earlier this month, says low serum total testosterone level at baseline has 'a significant increased risk for ICU & mortality' in Covid patients.
Men with prostate cancer who got hormone therapy had a fourfold lower risk of virus infection than patients who didn’t get such treatment, the study showed.
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