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When someone takes testosterone from outside their body, their brain stops telling their testicles to make their own testosterone, so they end up making none at all.

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Supporting (1)

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This study doesn’t test the mechanism directly, but it treats the idea that giving extra testosterone shuts down the body’s own production as common knowledge among doctors — meaning it supports the claim by not challenging it and assuming it’s true in clinical practice.

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No contradicting evidence found

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