{"id":43067,"date":"2026-01-29T06:29:36","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T06:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=43067"},"modified":"2026-01-29T06:29:36","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T06:29:36","slug":"are-men-being-misled-over-testosterone-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=43067","title":{"rendered":"Are men being misled over testosterone? \u2013 podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>If TikTok influencers are to be believed, testosterone, or T, is the answer to everything from fitness frustrations and fatigue to low libido. But doctors are warning that social media misinformation is driving men to seek testosterone therapy that they don\u2019t need. This in turn comes with risks for health and fertility. In part one of a miniseries exploring the popularity of testosterone, Madeleine Finlay hears from Prof Channa Jayasena of Imperial College London, who is chair of the Society for Endocrinology, about how this craze is manifesting in NHS clinics, and from \u2018Sam\u2019 who tells Madeleine about his own journey with the hormone<\/p>\n<p><strong>Social media misinformation driving men to seek unneeded NHS testosterone therapy, doctors say<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Support the Guardian: theguardian.com\/sciencepod<\/p>\n<p> Continue reading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If TikTok influencers are to be believed, testosterone, or T, is the answer to everything from fitness frustrations and fatigue to low libido. But doctors are warning that social media misinformation is driving men to seek testosterone therapy that they don\u2019t need. This in turn comes with risks for health and fertility. In part one<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43068,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[1329,14241,515,626],"class_list":{"0":"post-43067","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-men","9":"tag-misled","10":"tag-podcast","11":"tag-testosterone"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/43068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}