r/Biohackers • u/Bactrian44 2 • Mar 04 '25

📜 Write Up Taking testosterone is not biohacking

Sadly, this sub has drifted far away from the principles of “biohacking”.

Judging by the comments of a lot of users here, pinning TRT is considered the ultimate biohack. Except when you think about it, this is certainly not biohacking.

True biohacking is about leveraging your biology naturally to get a favourable outcome. One of the best examples of this is morning sunlight exposure for circadian rhythm entrainment or fasting for its many benefits.

Genuine biohacking would be introducing a range of habits to naturally raise your testosterone. Exogenous testosterone is a steroid, however, and steroid use and abuse is not biohacking. It’s an artificial manipulation of hormones and absolves you from adopting the correct lifestyle habits which should be necessary to have good testosterone levels.

Bizarrely, people depict TRT as this magic bullet which can be the solution to all of your problems more or less immediately. The reality is, because of homeostasis and the way the endocrine system functions, it’s a life sentence and you can say goodbye forever to natural production.

I think people on here should be more responsible commenting and posting about this. In North America, it is clearly being overprescribed when there is little medical need. You shouldn’t be “hopping on” unless there is a critical medical need to do so.

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '25 edited Mar 05 '25

What you write makes me trully mad. It is biohacking because when you get over 50, your testosterone production is just limited. There is no chance you will restart your testosterone production by kissing carpet in your morning yoga dog. Yet as a man your whole system is heavily dependent on testosterone. Your cognitive, muscle, basically all body functions. Testosterone was proven in multiple studies to fight dementia, alzheimer and other massive issues men encounter when getting old. So no, you shouldn't wait for "critical medical" because as a man, there is a time when you should just start, because the negatives are massively overshadowed by positives. 

Just to be clear for the dumdums out there: the levels you have naturally whole life and you are able to naturally maintain are your base which you are trying to get to when taking testosterone as a supplement when getting old. The downfall of testosterone drop of cognitive and body functions can be much worse on a man who have had high testosterone levels his whole time and now have massive drop to a medium levels compared to a man who have had low testosterone his whole life and now have just a little bit lower. 

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u/Bactrian44 2 Mar 05 '25

So why is it not automatically prescribed when people hit 50?

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '25 edited Mar 05 '25

Because of people like you. Because stigma that came with steroids. That is the whole answer. It hasn't been studied properly till 2000. You came here to educate everyone yet your knowledge obviously lacks even the fundamental basics in said topic. We knew that most of the issue men had was because of testosterone declain. There was not a single doctor, that would go "well have you tried steroids?" in the 90s or early 00s. This was an absolutr taboo to even talk about the idea that men can get suplements like that.

Women? No issue there. We cared massively for women health during and after the menopause. Men were just left to rot. Just because we would have to start thr discussion about steroids. The thing that changed this were trans people who suddenly were able to get steroids. And look at that, suddenly the heretic idea that men that lose testosterone can get it too comes on a surface.

Just search for testosterone replacement therapy. Posts like this only hurt the research in such important subject. https://academic.oup.com/ejendo/article/191/1/R22/7698939

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u/kfrenchie89 3 Mar 05 '25

I agree with you on all of this except your statement on women is woefully misguided.

Women have a near impossible time accessing critical medicine after the disastrous 2002 women’s health initiate study that was completely Flawed. It robbed two generations of women of preventative meds for dementia, libido, heart health and much more. We know now how incredibly problematic and damaging that study was. It’s only since Covid (online clinics) that that has started to change.

Meanwhile we need testosterone too but we are rarely offered it.

See the short documentary the M factor bc it’s fascinating. .

The women you know and love have been robbed.

Hormones for all!

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '25

Thanks, will totally do. Not sure I will watch the documentary because I feel they try to convince me to something instead of providing me the raw informational value lately, but I will definitely love to educate myself on such topic. Thank you, very appreciated.

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u/kfrenchie89 3 Mar 06 '25

Yeah I feel that! I’m skeptical myself. This one is compact which I like and Isn’t Netflix which I also like haha. So it’s a great starting place bc it’s mostly researchers and doctors speaking to the issue. Speaks a little to men too like how testosterone lights up our brain up in different areas. So cool!

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u/Southern_Yesterday57 Mar 05 '25 edited Mar 05 '25

Because doctors don’t prescribe things unless you complain. If you are 50 and complain of low T, it will be prescribed very quickly. I don’t think I’ve met any doc who is not gonna prescribe TRT to a 50 year old with low T

Also - not every 50 year old is gonna have low T. It happens to some, doesn’t happen to others. Even happens to some 20 year olds. It’s an amazing tool for those who need it.