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When young men take a high dose of testosterone while eating very few calories, their body starts making more iron available to produce red blood cells, but their metabolism and how they burn food don’t change.

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The study gave young men a high dose of testosterone while they were eating very little, and found it helped their body use iron better to make more red blood cells — without changing how many calories they burned or what fuel they used. This matches exactly what the claim said.

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