Andrew Huberman· PhD
Because if you think about it, young males have high testosterone often, if not always, or certainly often. And you don't see a lot of prostate overgrowth and cancer in young males.
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Because if you think about it, young males have high testosterone often, if not always, or certainly often. And you don't see a lot of prostate overgrowth and cancer in young males.
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most people intuitively think testosterone must be driving prostate cancer but the problem is men tend to get prostate cancer when their testosterone levels are at their lowest not their highest and men with hype testosterone when they young don't seem to get prostate cancer