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Manosphere's Testosterone Craze Achieves Remarkable Feat Of Shrinking The Exact Thing It Was Meant To Enlarge

Reproductive scientist Michael Carroll, author of a book called Your Nuts, warns that influencers selling testosterone as 'a new elixir' are effectively telling the brain to 'shut down your factory downstairs'. Bodybuilders on the stuff can experience testicular atrophy, a condition known as the Mossman-Pacey paradox, in which men look more virile while becoming less so. The movement has nonetheless reached US defence policy, where Pete Hegseth's 'High-T Department of War' now tests servicemen over 30, presumably to see whose factory is still open.

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