A 38-year-old male is upset about his low sperm count and visits a “practitioner” who commonly advertises his miracle cures for sterility. In fact, the practitioner is a quack who treats conditions of low sperm count with megadoses of testosterone. Although his patients experience a huge surge in libido, their sperm count is even lower after hormone treatment; why?

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