The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
free is defined as the testosterone that is neither bound to shbg or albumin whereas there's another term that many people who have had a blood test may notice something called bioavailable testosterone and that's the portion that is unbound to shbg but remains bound to albumin or is free
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Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
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testosterone needs to be bound primarily to carrier proteins and there are really two dominant carrier proteins that bind testosterone and carry it around one is called sex hormone binding globulin or shbg for short and the other is albumin