The Testosterone Myth | WIRED
Big T conquered the imagination of millions of men looking for renewed vigor. libido, and cognition. But scientific evidence that the hormone can actually conquer the ravages of age is scant.
Save this story Save this story In 1889, at a meeting of the Société de Biologie of Paris, a physiologist named Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard described the results of an experiment he had recently performed on himself. He had painstakingly mixed an elixir of blood, semen, water, and “juice extracted from a testicle, crushed immediately after it has been taken from a dog or a guinea-pig,” and then injected the fluid into his arms or legs 10 times over a three-week period. His goal, he told the audience, was to see if he could reverse some of “the most troublesome miseries of advanced life.” Bro
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