The Hidden Cost of Pain Relief: Are Opioids Secretly Destroying Your Testosterone?

About this episode

This episode explores the connection between chronic opioid use and declining testosterone levels.

Send us Fan Mail The Hidden Cost of Pain Relief: Are Opioids Secretly Destroying Your Testosterone? Are you taking opioids for chronic pain or participating in substitute opioid therapy, but feeling constantly fatigued, weak, or experiencing a loss of drive? You might be suffering from a hidden epidemic that traditional medicine is completely ignoring. In this episode, Dr. Kumar’s team at LifewellMD dives deep into the shocking connection between chronic opioid use and plummeting testostero...

People in this episode

Host: Dr. Kumar

Topics covered

• opioid use
• testosterone levels
• chronic pain
• fatigue
• functional medicine

Keywords

• opioids
• testosterone
• chronic pain
• fatigue
• functional medicine

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: LifeWellMD.com

Products: opioids, testosterone

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