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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Samuel Cornell,Luke Cox and Timothy Piatkowski

What is testosterone-maxxing? The trend with serious health risks targeting teenage boys

Testosterone or ‘T’ maxxing encourages young men to increase their testosterone levels - (Alamy/PA)

Videos promoting #testosteronemaxxing are racking up millions of views. Like “looksmaxxing” or “fibremaxxing”, this trend takes something related to body image (improving your looks) or health (eating a lot of fibre) and pushes it to extreme levels.

Testosterone or “T” maxxing encourages young men – mostly teenage boys – to increase their testosterone levels, either naturally (for example, through diet) or by taking synthetic hormones.

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