What did @erdemduel92 actually say?
Honestly, it is difficult to know. The transcript from this video is largely incoherent. The creator says things like "the work is very good" multiple times and closes with what appears to be a phonetic mispronunciation or autocaption garble of "testosterone" rendered as "test-toes." There are no clear medical claims, no protocols, no statistics, and no named compounds beyond that near-miss at the word testosterone.
This appears to be either a heavily corrupted auto-transcription of a non-English video, a video where audio quality was too poor for accurate captioning, or a response video (@erdemduel92 tagged it as a reply to @jd 8888ss) that lacks the context of the original question. Without knowing what was actually said, any fact-check is working in the dark.
Does the science back this up?
There is nothing specific enough here to test against the literature. The phrase "the work is very good" repeated three times and a mangled word that might mean testosterone do not constitute a medical claim. No dosing, no outcomes, no mechanism, nothing to compare to a randomized controlled trial.
What we can say is that testosterone replacement therapy does have a substantial evidence base for men with clinically confirmed hypogonadism. Bhasin et al. (2010, New England Journal of Medicine) established that TRT improves lean mass, sexual function, and mood in hypogonadal men. But that research has nothing to do with what this creator said, because this creator did not say anything verifiable about it.
What did they get wrong (or right)?
This is not a case of someone spreading misinformation. It is a case of a video that cannot be evaluated on its merits because no merits are legible. That is its own kind of problem on a platform where 14,400 people watched it under a TRT category tag.
People browsing TRT content on TikTok are often doing preliminary research before asking a doctor or, more commonly, before buying something without asking a doctor. A video that appears authoritative but delivers no coherent content still influences perception. The category tag alone, combined with confident delivery, can signal credibility to a viewer who does not parse the words closely. That is worth naming even when the creator may have said something perfectly reasonable in a language the transcription could not handle.
What should you actually know?
If you came to this fact-check because you are researching TRT, here is what the actual evidence says. TRT is a regulated medical treatment for hypogonadism, defined as consistently low serum testosterone combined with clinical symptoms. The Endocrine Society guidelines (Bhasin et al., 2018, Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism) recommend confirming low levels on at least two separate morning draws before initiating treatment.
TRT is not a general wellness supplement, not a performance shortcut, and not without risk. Cardiovascular effects remain an active research area. Polycythemia, testicular atrophy, and suppression of natural testosterone production are real side effects that require monitoring. Any platform, video, or person suggesting otherwise is doing you a disservice. Get bloodwork. Talk to a licensed provider. That is not a disclaimer, it is the actual standard of care.