Why So Many Guys Are Obsessed With Testosterone - The New York Times
From the Trump administration to online influencers, the hormone is increasingly seen as the key to achieving a new male ideal. Credit... Illustration by James Kerr / Scorpion Dagger Supported by By Azeen Ghorayshi Azeen Ghorayshi covers science and culture for The Times. For this article, she interviewed a senior Trump administration health official, urologists and endocrinologists, and 14 men taking testosterone. In January, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. joined Katie Miller, the wife of Stephen Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff for policy, on her podcast. He was there to celebrate his MAHA victories, but he soon veered into the singular, seemingly indestructible biology of President Donald J. Trump. “He has the constitution of a deity,” Kennedy marveled. And the key to the president’s inexplicable vigor, Kennedy suggested, could be found in his hormones. Dr. Mehmet Oz, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services administrator, had reviewed the president’s medi