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TL;DR - testosterone supplements increase cholesterol which increases the risk of heart attack and stroke. When taking testosterone it is important to regularly get your cholesterol levels checked.
I don't think that's the tl;dr
a better tl;dr might be that young healthy men with normal levels of testosterone are being duped into needless testosterone replacement therapy by right-wing misogynist mannosphere social media influencers pushing pseudo-science claims on the internet
Isn't it also why male pattern balding exists? I didn't know that about cholesterol though. I have high levels of both dammit.
Yes, testosterone is converted into dihydrotestosterone (DHT) which causes the male-pattern balding by binding to receptors on hair follicles in the scalp, which initiates "miniaturization" and the shrinking of those follicles, leading eventually to the loss of hair.