@fitbod Not to pick on your “low” Tot Testosterone, at least as it’s reported, but these “Reference Ranges” always crack me up.
As you likely know, they are typically structured to represent +/- 3 standard deviations (capturing 95%) or +/- 2 s.d. (to capture 85%) of the population at large.
Implications? Well, ask yourself…
Are 85% to 95% of the general population healthy?
Public health stats strongly suggest that, no, they are not. Upwards of 70% are suffering from some variation of obesity, diabetes or metabolic syndrome.
So every time I see some lab result of mine that’s outside the “Reference Range” I ask myself:
“Am I glad to be outside the zone where 85%-95% of my neighbors fall on this metric? Or would I prefer to have the same blood levels that these folks have?”