Is testosterone a steroid?
Natural
testosterone
is a steroid — an anabolic-androgenic steroid. "anabolic" refers to muscle building, and "androgenic" refers to increased male sex characteristics.
However, when you hear people use the term “ anabolic steroids ” they are generally referring to synthetic (made in a lab) variations of testosterone that are injected into your body. Healthcare providers use synthetic testosterone to treat and manage various medical conditions. Synthetic testosterone is the main drug of masculinizing hormone therapy , which is a gender-affirming treatment that someone afab uses to produce the secondary sex characteristics associated with being assigned male at birth (amab).
Having too much naturally-occurring testosterone is not a common problem among men. That may surprise you given what people might consider obvious evidence of testosterone excess: road rage, fighting among fathers at little league games and
sexual
promiscuity. Part of this may be d