Ep. 188 Testosterone Therapy Today: Clinical Advances and Safety with Dr. Abraham Morgentaler

3122.195 - 3145.275 Dr. Abraham Morgentaler

And when you swallowed them, it had a first pass effect with the liver and it turned out to have some liver toxicity. The new pills are all made out of testosterone undecanoate, which has this long carbon side chain of 11 carbons. And it doesn't get absorbed the usual way through the gastric and through the intestinal vasculature, but rather it gets absorbed through the lymphatics.