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Testosterone fever: the only hormone that has an ideology

Morning erections are the gold standard for gauging testosterone, according to several male-oriented forums on Reddit, where an entire subcategory is devoted to the hormone, which is referred to online simply as T. In those groups—some aligned with the manosphere and others not—members swap and compare blood tests every six months. Being labeled in that universe as low T (low in testosterone) is a stigma that taps into several male anxieties: weak sexual drive, low energy, a certain timorous attitude toward life and a precarious bank balance.

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Testosterone use has surged in the Trump era.
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La fiebre por la testosterona, la única hormona que tiene ideología

La erección matutina es el patrón oro para calibrar la testosterona, según varios foros masculinos de Reddit, donde toda una subcategoría se dedica a esta hormona, una variable que en internet solo se nombra con la letra T. En esos grupos, algunos en la órbita de la manosfera pero otros no, se intercambian y comparan analíticas cada seis meses. Ser señalado en este universo como low T (bajo en testosterona) es un estigma que apela a varios miedos masculinos: pulsión sexual débil, baja energía, cierta actitud pusilánime ante la vida y una cuenta corriente precaria.

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La testosterona se ha disparado en la era Trump. La Asociación de Urología de Estados Unidos señala que un tercio de los hombres a los que se receta TRT para reponer la hornoma no tiene un diagnóstico de déficit de ella.
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Maxx yourself, squeeze yourself dry: The unhealthy obsession with optimizing everything

There was a time when moderation was a virtue and the middle ground, wisdom. Hyperbole was no more than a literary or rhetorical device. But not anymore. We live at the extremes. Raising everything to its highest possible level is the zeitgeist fate has handed us, and it comes with a suffix that colonizes the internet: maxxing. A highly versatile suffix: placed after the right word it means that, whatever you do, you are giving it your all.

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The influencer Clavicular in Arizona, last February.
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