Weight loss achieved through fasting or calorie restriction without attention to dietary quality, leading to a crash in testosterone, indicates an unhealthy approach. — Whalespan
Weight loss achieved through fasting or calorie restriction without attention to dietary quality, leading to a crash in testosterone, indicates an unhealthy approach.
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High-risk intervention — consult a physician before acting.Drug-drug interactions, dose-dependence, and screening contraindications apply.
“Similarly, if you are losing weight and your testosterone crashes because you are fasting or you are consistently calorie restricting, and I will talk about calories in versus calories out in a moment, uh, without attention to dietary quality, then I think that you are moving toward an unhealthy state of weight loss, an unhealthy state of being a human, and you should consider that in your weight loss journey.”