{"id":229544,"date":"2025-12-12T17:21:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T17:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/229544\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T17:21:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T17:21:11","slug":"testosterone-levels-have-declined-in-men-heres-what-the-fda-wants-to-do-about-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/229544\/","title":{"rendered":"Testosterone levels have declined in men. Here&#8217;s what the FDA wants to do about it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a class=\"noslideshow fancybox\" title=\"Martin Makary, commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, speaks in the Oval Office of the White House during an event with President Trump, Thursday, Oct. 16, in Washington. Image: Alex Brandon\/AP\" href=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1765560071_580_\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1765560071_580_\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Martin Makary, commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, speaks in the Oval Office of the White House during an event with President Trump, Thursday, Oct. 16, in Washington. Image: Alex Brandon\/AP<\/p>\n<p>Testosterone levels have declined in men. Here&#8217;s what the FDA wants to do about it<\/p>\n<p>A Food and Drug Administration panel of health experts convened Wednesday to discuss and promote the health benefits of testosterone treatments for men.<\/p>\n<p>FDA Commissioner Martin Makary told Morning Edition that low testosterone is believed to be associated with symptoms in roughly one-third of men who have it, though he said the evidence and data are not fully defined. Symptoms can include &#8220;reduction in mood and vitality,&#8221; Makary said.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to NPR&#8217;s Steve Inskeep, Makary discussed why the FDA wants to reconsider medical access to testosterone and the stigma associated with its use.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the full conversation by clicking the blue play button above.<\/p>\n<p>The radio version of this story was edited by Adam Bearne and produced by Lilly Quiroz. The web copy was written by Obed Manuel and edited by Majd Al-Waheidi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Martin Makary, commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, speaks in the Oval Office of the White House&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229545,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[18,135,19,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-229544","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115707752754495679","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}