What did @yvasiliyy actually say?
Honestly? Almost nothing coherent. The transcript reads: "I am tired of the weak side, but I feel quite a deal for me. Sakes I think it's seen enough, who cannot." That's the whole thing. Repeated twice. This is either a heavily garbled auto-transcription of a video filmed in another language, or the audio was largely inaudible. There are no specific claims about testosterone, TRT protocols, dosing, diet, or anything clinically meaningful that can be extracted from this text.
The hashtags "#testosterone" and "#alimentation" suggest the creator intended to discuss testosterone levels and diet or nutrition ("alimentation" is a French and Spanish term for food/nutrition). But intent and content are two different things. With 694,000 views, a lot of people watched something that, at least in transcript form, communicated essentially nothing verifiable.
Does the science back this up?
There is nothing specific enough here to fact-check against peer-reviewed literature. That said, the implied topic, which appears to be diet and testosterone, is a legitimate area of research worth addressing since that's almost certainly what the video was about.
The relationship between diet and testosterone is real but frequently overstated online. A 2021 systematic review by Whittaker and Wu in the journal Nutrition Research Reviews found that dietary fat intake, particularly from monounsaturated and saturated fats, is positively associated with testosterone levels, while low-fat diets may modestly suppress them. However, the effect sizes are small and unlikely to matter clinically for most men. A 2020 cross-sectional study by Hu et al. in Nutrients found that men eating a "Western-pattern" diet had lower testosterone than those eating more whole foods, but this is association, not causation. The idea that food alone can dramatically "fix" testosterone in a man with clinical hypogonadism is not supported.
What did they get wrong (or right)?
Because the transcript is incoherent, we can't pin a specific error on the creator. What we can say is this: if the video's thesis matches its hashtags, and it frames diet as a significant testosterone booster for people who "feel weak," that framing is partially right and partially misleading.
Partially right: nutritional deficiencies, particularly zinc and vitamin D, are genuinely associated with lower testosterone. Pilz et al. (2011, Hormone and Metabolic Research) found that vitamin D supplementation increased testosterone in deficient men. That's a real finding.
Partially misleading: the "feel tired and weak" framing that the transcript seems to gesture at is often used to push dietary fixes onto men who may actually have clinical hypogonadism, a medical condition requiring proper diagnosis. Food optimization is not a substitute for an endocrinology workup. Telling men to just eat better when they have low testosterone is like telling someone with Type 1 diabetes to cut sugar.
What should you actually know?
If you watched this video and thought it was giving you actionable advice about testosterone and diet, here is what the evidence actually supports, stated plainly.
- Obesity suppresses testosterone. Losing body fat, particularly visceral fat, consistently raises testosterone levels. A 2013 trial by Ng Tang Fui et al. in European Journal of Endocrinology showed meaningful increases in obese men after weight loss.
- Chronic caloric restriction also tanks testosterone. Extreme dieting is not the answer either.
- Zinc deficiency is a real cause of low testosterone and is correctable through diet or supplementation. But if you are not deficient, extra zinc does nothing useful.
- If you feel chronically fatigued, weak, and low in libido, get your total testosterone, free testosterone, LH, and FSH measured by a doctor. Diet videos on TikTok are not a diagnostic tool.
- Clinical hypogonadism, defined as total testosterone below 300 ng/dL with symptoms, requires medical management, not just better eating habits.
The bottom line on this video
A viral video with 694,000 views that appears to discuss testosterone and diet but delivers an unintelligible transcript is a problem regardless of what the creator intended. Viewers are left to project their own assumptions onto the content. That is how health misinformation spreads even when no one explicitly lies. The implied message, that feeling "weak" has a dietary fix, deserves scrutiny. Sometimes it does. Often it does not. Get bloodwork before you change your diet based on a TikTok.