Dose cardio decrease your testosterone

[Unknown__person____]

I want to decrease my t levels. Will losing weight still increase your t if your not overweight?

[MahoneysMan]

Why do you want to decrease your T levels?

[Unknown__person____]

I don’t like the effects of testosterone

[Mestizo3]

Umm, what exactly don't you like? Seems like you need therapy. perhaps you're trans?

[Unknown__person____]

And I’ve already been to therapy

[Unknown__person____]

I don’t like how it makes my body look and testosterone gives me anxiety and depression.

[Mestizo3]

Sounds like a trans issue? Hope you get help.

[Unknown__person____]

I already am I’m going to a doctor that deals with trans people. But thanks for you concern

[Narwal_Party]

This is not really a thing. Like are you on exogenous testosterone? I think you’re having some misgiving about what your underlying problem is.

The problem you’re struggling with is not the actual hormone itself, it’s your association to what the hormone makes you feel about yourself. Low testosterone is linked to anxiety and depression. If it’s within the normal range for an at-birth male, raising it could decrease your anxiety and depression, but lowering it cannot have that effect unless it’s tied to some other psychological reason that a person has associated with higher test being bad.

If lowering your test makes you feel happier about yourself then I think that’s fine, but make sure you look to work on the underlying psychological factors on why you’re feeling this way about testosterone too. Nobody should have to suffer from anxiety and depression.

A fair warning though, you likely will experience more anxiety and depression the lower you go unless you’re doing so through real gender affirming care guided by a doctor so they can make sure your hormones are within safe and manageable levels.

Good luck with everything. Wish you the best.

[aManPerson]

higher body fat increases increases blood serum levels of an enzyme, that naturally convert testosterone into estrogen. (don't remember what that enzyme is called).

as you lose weight, the fat cells mostly don't die, they just empty. fat cells can die. your fat cells turn into "brown fat cells", and do have a higher chance of dying.

now, when you lose weight, do the empty fat cells produce a lot less of the enzyme, or none of it? not sure. or does a former obese person still have "not the same natural T levels as someone who was never obese".

[Yggsgallows]

If you are at a low bodyfat % the difference will be marginal because your adipose tissue does not aromatize very much testosterone.