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As long as you a producing a normal amount of testosterone then I don't think you need any treatments of it. It wouldn't do you any good. But if you are alrea

• JohnBooty 8y ago
  > As long as you a producing a normal amount of testosterone That's something I'm curious about. I can't access the full article, but the abstract simply mentions "testosterone treatment." I'm not sure if that means your typical testosterone treatment, where testosterone is given to those who have low testosterone... or if they were administering testosterone to people in this trial regardless of their existing testosterone levels, even if they weren't low. I suspect it's the latter! Which would be interesting. If it's the former, this barely qualifies as news. We've known for ages that low testosterone is associated with depression. It would be almost hard to believe that anybody would bother to run a study on it in 2018. The latter possibility is interesting though. It suggests that supplementing testosterone could be an effective way to treat depression even in those who do not have low testosterone. (We already know that exercise boosts testosterone, and that exercise is an effective treatment for depression, so this is not completely surprising. And yes, I realize that exercise is not a cure-all, nor an option available to everybody)