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With the market for low-testosterone, or “Low-T,” therapy projected to reach $5 billion by 2017, many new centers have sprung up across the country offering a spectacular catch-all treatment. TIME spoke to experts in the field and visited the [Ageless Men’s Health](www.agelessmenshealth.com/) testosterone clinic to get the inside story on a treatment that promises to “boost your strength training, sex drive and performance to the levels you’ve been wanting.” Read TIME’s cover story, “Manopause?! Aging, Insecurity and the $2 Billion Testosterone Industry,” [here](http://time.com/3062889/manopause-aging-insecurity-and-the-2-billion-testosterone-industry/?pcd=hp-magmod).  Phillip Toledano for TIME Phillip Toledano for TIME ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3063213/low-testosterone/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3063213/low-testosterone/"},"headline":"Are You Man Enough? 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