A great question in a separate discussion on this topic with my response:



Question: "Why is the medical community so scared of testosterone? Is it really just about politics? Or fear of giving out a controlled substance? Treating the symptoms of low testosterone (with antidepressants, viagra and in my case opioids), rather than treating the actual condition, is terrible medical care."



My response:



Well let's think this through.



Everything comes with possible risk, but in many men medically appropriate TRT (and other hormonal optimization) can reverse or improve obesity (which in and of itself can improve or even cure hypertension, high cholesterol, diabetes/insulin resistance), can reverse or improve depression, anxiety, and a host of other mental health symptoms, can improve bone density (less risk of osteopenia and osteoporosis), can improve libido/erections (how much profit do the PDE-5i such as viagra net the pharm companies?), the list goes on...



Let's not even talk about all of the guys I see come in with full-blown metabolic syndrome (from a combination of the above - obesity, hypertension, high cholesterol, insulin resistance), which ultimately culminates in heart disease and heart attack - where the first step down that path towards metabolic syndrome was often a hormonal deficiency (Testosterone, thyroid) that began YEARS beforehand and went either undetected or, even worse, ignored by their doctor as "normal".



Now look into the financials of how much big pharma profits from the treatment of these "sick patient" conditions - hypertension, high cholesterol, diabetes, obesity, erectile dysfunction, depression, anxiety, heart disease...then realize the immense influence that big pharma has not only on practicing physicians (their reps are in the doc offices every week for "lunch") AND big pharma's influence on medical education and research in general...the dots are then left to you to connect.



You know how many pharmaceutical reps we host at my office???



None, zero, never!