How Do My Hormones Affect My Fertility?

madman · 2026-09-19T09:39:38-0500

Hormones play an important role in reproductive health, managing many functions within your body by carrying signals via the blood to your muscles, organs and other tissue. Testosterone and other hormones can influence sperm production and fertility, making it important to understand how hormone levels and treatments may affect your reproductive goals.

In this video, Dr. Jared Bieniek breaks down the relationship between hormones and fertility, including what you should know about testosterone if you’re trying to conceive.

madman · 2026-09-19T09:39:55-0500

Thread 'Fertility maintenance or restoration in men before, during, and after TRT or AAS'

Sep 25, 2022

Fertility Preservation in Hypogonadal Men (2018)
Robert J. Carrasquillo and Ranjith Ramasamy

Introduction

Testicular failure is defined as the impairment or loss of both the endocrine functions of the testis (production of testosterone, or T) and exocrine function (production of spermatozoa). Testicular failure can result from the pathology of the testis itself or disorder at any point in the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis. Primary testicular failure is characterized by normal/low T in the presence of the elevated follicle-stimulating hormone...