{"id":4484,"date":"2019-11-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/stronglife\/?p=4571"},"modified":"2023-10-11T12:22:54","modified_gmt":"2023-10-11T12:22:54","slug":"what-is-testosterone-what-does-it-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stronglifehp.com.au\/wpdemo2\/what-is-testosterone-what-does-it-do\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Testosterone? What does it do?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What is testosterone?<\/strong><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type:square;line-height:200%;margin-left:20px;\">\n<li>?Primary male sex hormone.<\/li>\n<li>Testosterone is produced mainly in the testes, small amount made in the adrenal glands.<\/li>\n<li>The brain&#8217;s hypothalamus and pituitary gland control testosterone production.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>What does it do?<\/strong><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type:square;line-height:200%;margin-left:20px;\">\n<li>?Muscle size and strength<\/li>\n<li>Bone growth and strength<\/li>\n<li>Sex drive (libido)<\/li>\n<li>Improved mood<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Low testosterone? What are the effects on training?<\/strong><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type:square;line-height:200%;margin-left:20px;\">\n<li>Lower red blood cell count<\/li>\n<li>Harder to produce and assemble proteins to repair muscle<\/li>\n<li>Lower energy levels<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is affecting testosterone levels?<\/strong><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type:square;line-height:200%;margin-left:20px;\">\n<li>Weight<\/li>\n<li>Diet<\/li>\n<li>Sleep<\/li>\n<li>Exercise and fitness levels<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Working on these things, will have the biggest impact on not only your test levels, but overall performance and recovery in training<\/p>\n<p>Hope you&#8217;ve all gained something from this post!<\/p>\n<p>Part 2 we will be staying on hormones but we will touch base on Oestrogen and it&rsquo;s affects on the body!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is testosterone? &nbsp; ?Primary male sex hormone. Testosterone is produced mainly in the testes, small amount made in the adrenal glands. The brain&#8217;s hypothalamus and pituitary gland control testosterone production. &nbsp; What does it do? &nbsp; ?Muscle size and strength Bone growth and strength Sex drive (libido) Improved mood &nbsp; Low testosterone? What are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4832,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stronglifehp.com.au\/wpdemo2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stronglifehp.com.au\/wpdemo2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stronglifehp.com.au\/wpdemo2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stronglifehp.com.au\/wpdemo2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stronglifehp.com.au\/wpdemo2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4484"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stronglifehp.com.au\/wpdemo2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4833,"href":"https:\/\/stronglifehp.com.au\/wpdemo2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4484\/revisions\/4833"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stronglifehp.com.au\/wpdemo2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stronglifehp.com.au\/wpdemo2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stronglifehp.com.au\/wpdemo2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stronglifehp.com.au\/wpdemo2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}