With Cancer This article is part of Generation Why , a HuffPost Healthy Living series putting the spotlight on young adult cancer patients and survivors between the ages of 15 and For more on the series, click here. When she landed her first gig, she didn’t care that it didn’t come with health insurance.

2. Abusive, Dominant Men. What nice guys, white knights, and male feminists can’t seem to get through their thick skulls is that women are not attracted to men who respect them. Modern Western women would rather be with a strong, dominant man who occasionally abuses them than be bored to death by a nice, supplicating beta who worships them.

Why so much confusion? Different labs use different methods and measurements , which has only created confusion among consumers and even family doctors about what testosterone level results even mean. Hopefully, the current state of confusion will soon change. The Center for Disease Control here in the U. I hope in this post I can clarify some of the confusion surrounding testosterone levels and hormone tests.

This stuff is super confusing. Total and Free Testosterone Levels Before we begin, I want to reiterate the fact that there are three different types of testosterone floating in your body: When you get tested, there are two tests you can get: Total testosterone is the total amount of T floating in your blood at the time of the test: Free testosterone is the measurement of — you got it — free testosterone which often includes albumin-bound testosterone as well because it can easily convert to free T.

Free T is typically measured in picograms per milliliter. So, when you see research on normal testosterone levels, it usually focuses on total testosterone. Consequently, most of the numbers in this post will be about total T levels. With that said, I do include some references to research that indicates what average and optimal free testosterone levels are.