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That's styropyro:

He's one of the smartest youtubers I routinely watch. And yeah, crazy high testosterone, although you might never guess. I generally would assume someone with that much testosterone would have some facial hair.
im guessing he also has some degree of androgen insensitivity. having crazy high testosterone youd expect large muscles, lots of facial hair, male pattern baldness, a low voice, but hes not that big, has at least thin facial hair that he shaves, a full head of hair, and a relatively high voice. idk if any version of androgen insensitivity is associated with very high testosterone levels but i wouldn't be surprised.
Dude's in his 30s but looks and sounds like a guy in his early 20s.
At that level of androgen, some of the androgen will be transformed into estrogen.
Source: I’m on hrt
Mostly you'd expect them to be bald
What does it mean if you have high testosterone and a lot of hair on your head? 😅
Might not have the hair for too long. Though you might. Depends on the tolerance for testosterone. Just know that high testosterone and baldness are highly correlated
You could also have a high tolerance for DHT, which is the metabolite of testosterone associated with hair loss.
In general though I think a lot of people focus very hard on the specific hormones, and typically they'll do what they say on the tin in standard doses. But there are a lot of edge cases. Higher or lower sensitivities, general proclivities, etc.
Before transitioning most people would've suspected I had very high T. I had a deep voice at a young age, built muscle fast, full beard as a teenager, the whole shebang minus baldness (but I transitioned young so that could just be time). But nope, my levels were average. I also responded fairly strongly to estrogen.
What's far more important than your numbers is if you're getting healthy and acceptable effects from your hormone levels. There's no need to mess with your levels unless there's need to mess with your levels.
Iirc, keeping or losing your hair as a guy has to do with DHT receptors in your hair follicles. T doesn't make your hair fall out, but DHT does, and your body produces more DHT as you get older (hence why finastride works as a hair loss inhibitor - it blocks DHT from the receptors in your hair). But only the hair on the top of your head is sensitive to this, with sensitivity higher in some places than others. Hence, some guys bald on the crown first, while some have a receding hairline first, and some never bald at all.
How do you know what his testosterone levels is?
He has a very uncommon medical condition that he shared with his viewer base a while ago, largely because it had a serious impact on how often he was putting out videos for a while until he got it diagnosed
im pretty sure thats what the first video in the original comment is about
That's not how testosterone works. It's not fuel, it's just a signal. Everyone's neutral baseline is calibrated differently depending on developmental events mainly in the womb. It's not about how much absolute testosterone you have in a snapshot, it's about how much higher or lower you are than your own personal baseline. Your body will tend to maintain near your baseline, which might be much higher or lower than someone else's baseline, while "meaning" the same thing.
Pretty sure that's just StyroPyro.
Maybe the initial testosterone measurement was just wrong, I wonder of they repeated it. Broken device?
IIRC that’s why most labs require multiple samples but IANAMD.
Transient elevation is possible without long term aberrant effects, though the result will have to be explained to future doctors and insurance underwriters who will want to know if it was due to poorly-managed / self-administered HRT or an unchecked gonadal growth. If neither of those things, and no other symptoms present, it’s treated as normal.
styropyro
He has some mystery condition where his testosterone is super high... He's very smart, but maybe not quite there.
high five, random internet poster. I came here to make a similar comment :)
That's literally who I thought about and I'm so glad someone mentioned it. He's a freakishly smart dude.
How is he now btw? Is he getting treated? Did they find a root cause?
He's posted very little on it. Last we heard they didn't find any cancers or anything and he wasn't really suffering from it. He had some strange symptoms and it it just came up in tests that didn't like up with what he was there for. But it was really really high.
Well, as long as it isn't negatively affecting him I guess. But I assume that he'll have to somewhat regularly monitor it with bloodwork checkups
Tbh if you told me there's a STEM youtuber with worryingly high levels of testosterone, Styropyro would be my first guess
Henry McCoy

He isn't as blue as I remember. Is he using a new conditioner?
He was actually originally grey. That was a thing for a lot of Marvel characters in their early years; they kept wanting to do a grey character but they kept needing to change it. Happened to the Hulk, Iron Man and Beast.
This is a whole thing about clones and engineering a new body and mind transfers, the tldr is this is evil beast and he's made himself a new body with white fur for some reason
Oh okay. I missed that dark beast got a new body. I'm assuming dark beast (evil beast) is the same one from the AoA timeline.
I think I remember reading about Krakoa and Beast goes a little bit too evil with X-Force. Someone brings a beast from the past to talk sense into Krakoa beast. I haven't been reading the more recent runs.
That's just John Testosterone, we don't talk about him.
If you remove the anomaly, which may be due to an accidental additional digit, that correlation coefficient may climb a bit.
IMHO, they plotted an independent variable over random noise. The one gigathad changes nothing.
I think there's a clear correlation there, but the axes are reversed: testosterone can't be the dependent variable of IQ score. Reversing the axes makes the gradient look incredibly steep, but that's only because of the obviously incorrect anomaly. r=0.435 is very much not a strong correlation, but it's not zero either, especially with a sample size this enormous.
Dolph Lundgren
I laughed more that I was supposed to. We need a community just for funny outliers in charts!
Obviously it's Brian Boitano
might be styropyro who has mentioned a clinical testosterone disorder affecting videos recently



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