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Consultant urologist Dr George Lee Eng Geap, or a.k.a Dr G, tells a reader that the latter’s higher than normal testosterone level is not the absolute reason why he has developed strong lust for sex.  Read more at https://tinyurl.com/3rs2fmyr  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00 Hello everyone, welcome to the final installation of putting Dr. G on the spot in the month

00:06 of August, talking about influences of testosterone on men.

00:11 And this week, we're going to discuss the influence of testosterone on risk-taking behavior

00:17 and how is it affecting some men.

00:25 So let's look at risk-taking behavior.

00:29 In fact, testosterone has always been incriminated for risk-taking behavior.

00:35 For example, in the 1960s, when men who are involved in sexual health crimes such as rape,

00:42 and then are always incriminated and also have them castrated so that they remove their

00:49 source of testosterone production, which is their testicles.

00:53 Obviously, these days and age, we don't do that anymore.

00:57 And then of course, in animal study, we still show that there is a correlation between testosterone

01:03 and risk-taking behavior.

01:05 How is that measured anyway?

01:08 The simplest form of measuring risk-taking behavior is something called Iowa gambling

01:14 test.

01:15 Essentially, this is looking at men and women in their risk-taking behavior when they are

01:23 gambling or they are making financial decisions, i.e. if your testosterone is high, you are

01:28 more daring in gambling.

01:30 There is a correlation between the higher than normal level of testosterone that will

01:37 result in this behavior.

01:40 Will it also translate to other behavior?

01:42 In fact, it will have been looked at other things like addiction.

01:46 So when you're taking more risk behavior and also other things like fast car driving and

01:52 other risk behaviors.

01:54 However, when it comes to risk-taking behaviors that you don't take protection, for example,

02:00 putting yourself and your loved one at risk of getting sexually transmitted infection

02:05 or going all the way that you end up having unwanted pregnancy, the answer is there is

02:12 no real study.

02:14 In fact, there is no real study that actually prove that men with higher testosterone perhaps

02:21 will engage in more risky sexual behavior.

02:24 However, naturally, if you correlate that with the gambling possibility, the risk-taking

02:31 behavior in financial decisions, risk-taking behavior in addiction, you probably can translate

02:37 that to risk-taking behavior in sexual health.

02:42 For the first week of September, we're going to actually focus on various infections that

02:48 happens in men.

02:50 And the first one we're going to talk about is a type of sexually transmitted infection.

02:55 The commonest type of sexually transmitted infection actually is chlamydia.

03:00 So if you're interested or your friend is interested in finding out more about chlamydia

03:05 infection, then stay tuned for next week's Putting Dr. G on the Spot.

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EP186: Don’t blame it all on testosterone | PUTTING DR G ON THE SPOT

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