Everyone is on testosterone

每个人都在补充睾酮。

Today, Explained

2025-11-01

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Should they be? Let’s see. This episode was produced by Miles Bryan, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Adriene Lilly with help from Patrick Boyd, and hosted by Noel King. Photo by Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images Listen to Today, Explained ad-free by becoming a Vox Member: vox.com/members. New Vox members get $20 off their membership right now. Transcript at ⁠vox.com/today-explained-podcast.⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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  • We all have it.

  • Men want more.

  • Women also want more.

  • You know what I'm talking about.

  • Testosterone.

  • Today on Today Explained, the hormone of which ladies and germs cannot get enough.

  • Everyone's on T.

  • Should they be?

  • Stay tuned.

  • If it's deep, it's parsley.

  • So the number one thing I think that doctors don't prescribe, which is a shame, is today explained.

  • Medical professionals, your doctors,

  • your nurses wrote 11 million prescriptions for testosterone in the U.S.

  • last year.

  • That was up from 7.3 million five years earlier.

  • But a lot of people are also getting tea, sometimes in troubling doses.

  • I had to take mine down because I was like, it was like I was Humphy and everything.

  • Yeah, it was just Humph and Humph and Humph away.

  • From nutritionists, med spas, wellness centers, Susan Dominus,

  • a staff writer at the New York Times magazine, recently wrote about the women.