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TRT

TRT

1 6.8
A medical treatment for men with low testosterone
  • noun
  • Specialized
translation icon : TRT
  • After struggling with fatigue, he decided to start TRT to boost his testosterone levels.

Like taking TRT is not going to make you jacked.

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Examples

  • Doctors often recommend TRT to treat symptoms related to low testosterone in men.

  • It seems to me that US doctors and European doctors have different ideas about what the best TRT regimen is.

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  • Following on from this, what is the risk of prostate cancer with using TRT long term?

  • When we're talking about testosterone generally, I'm hearing a lot more about guys going on TRT in America.

  • The medical world said to say I would believe that the rock would be on TRT, which is testosterone replacement therapy.

  • Then they have a physiologic dose of TRT and that causes the sleep issue itself.

  • Is that a concern for you that the therapeutic levels of TRT are potentially lowering lifespan?

  • They hooked me up with a lot of like supplements, got me on TRT, which of my testosterone was low.

  • Many men report significant energy improvement after beginning TRT for low testosterone.

Synonyms

HRT
vsTRT
  • Specialized
7 3.8

Use of hormones to reduce menopause symptoms and lower health risks in women after menopause

is focused on restoring low male hormone levels not treating menopause effects
hormone replacement therapy
vsTRT
  • Specialized
3.7

A medical treatment that gives body chemicals to transgender people to cause body changes matching their gender identity

is a treatment that restores low male hormone levels rather than altering traits

Surface Forms

TRT singular
TRTs plural

Morphology

TRT = T + R + T

TRT is an initialism; the individual letters do not convey the meaning 'testosterone replacement therapy' to a typical learner, so the form–meaning link is opaque.

Etymology

The word TRT comes from the first letters of testosterone replacement therapy, a medical phrase meaning a treatment that 'replaces' low testosterone in men. So, TRT refers to this specific hormone treatment.