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       https://unherd.com/newsroom/manfluencers-testosterone-therapy-a-sign-of-cultural-decay/Profit-minded manosphere influencers, many with pecuniary relationships with various laboratories and pharmacies, are now pushing testosterone replacement therapy (TRT) on young men who have no clinical need for it. New research says that these influencers are reaching millions on social media, and even a cursory glance at their accounts reveals how they promise today’s young men that the needle will transform them into the alpha males they were meant to be. The trend has a name: “testosterone maxxing”, or “t-maxxing”. Last year, Dazed documented how young TikTokers including Kade Martinelli, who has been injecting for four years, tell followers that “alpha” and “high-level” men use TRT. James Manteit, 27, boasts to his 75,000 followers that women “can just smell the testosterone in the air”. Doctors report college-aged patients arriving at clinics having already started self-administering testosterone based on this influencer advice.https://archive.ph/1X12d