Why So Many of Us Are Taking Testosterone
The word testosterone rarely comes with positive associations: aggressive macho behaviour, risk-taking, young men behaving badly. But now testosterone is going mainstream. Increasingly, both men and women are turning to the hormone to address all manner of health and vitality shortcomings, driving a 15 per nt spike in NHS testosterone prescriptions from 2021 to 2022. Yes, it’s the primary sex hormone in men, and yes, men produce at least ten times more testosterone than women. But in....