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Youth Pill That Ages You: Testosterone Therapy’s Empty Promises and Vanishing Hairlines

In an era where the boundaries between wellness and medicine are increasingly blurred, the hair transplant community must act as a bulwark for evidence-based practice. Testosterone Replacement Therapy (TRT), for all its promises, offers little in the way of verified benefit for aging men without classical hypogonadism—and potentially much in the way of aesthetic harm. For patients who seek youth, vitality, and confidence through hair restoration, we must recognize that the so-called “youth pill” may, in fact, be aging them—one follicle at a time.