A Navy captain with 24 years of service went to medical for exhaustion, weight gain, and low mood, and was told to see a therapist and eat less. When he asked for a testosterone test his physician asked whether he had erectile dysfunction, and refused to order it when he said no. His level came back at 160; the cutoff we use in this country is 300. I've treated this population for 15 years, and roughly 27% of operators test below that number. Tim Parlatore is the attorney who wrote the Pentagon memo that now puts testosterone on the annual physical, and we get into what it says and why most men never have this hormone checked again after they leave pediatrics.
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⏰Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro of show
02:32 - Why military service lowers testosterone
04:15 - Treated like an anabolic steroid
06:52 - Screening first, not bodybuilding
08:07 - 27% of operators test low
09:34 - The three groups of users
10:52 - The BUD/S student who died
13:00 - A captain's testosterone was 160
15:39 - Denied the test, then the wait
18:58 - Why men skip baseline testing
19:46 - Beyond operators: the wider force
21:56 - The three effects on the force
26:37 - The best biomarker for men
27:40 - Why they wanted a study first
29:04 - Health, media, and politics
37:44 - Testing and treating women
44:57 - Voluntary treatment and options
48:20 - The friend Tim lost
51:00 - Selling the science to the Pentagon
53:00 - Building a research dataset
1:05:29 - Naval Academy to defending Gotti
1:11:54 - Trial as psychological warfare
1:21:03 - The fitness turnaround
1:26:02 - The email spying scandal
1:31:06 - "I am the storm"
1:35:32 - Prosecutorial misconduct
1:41:11 - Secondary trauma and the human cost
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