There's a new fad called Cenegenics which is basically a bodybuilding regimen, replete with steroids given under the rubric of "hormone replacement", for old men. They're running television ads featuring a shredded-looking 72-year-old doctor.
What's wrong with working out and supplementing your decreasing hormone levels with artificial testosterone? I may be reading your comment in the wrong light, but I think the research on health benefits here are fascinating. Once you move away from the stupidity of people juicing to get as big as Ronnie Coleman and away from the use of them by people under the age of ~40, hormone replacement is actually pretty great. Women have been taking estrogen for years and it's not frowned upon.
Estrogen will induce breast and uterine cancers unless it is given with progesterone. Hardly zero side-effects.
It is considered proper to only administer estrogen alone to women with severe symptoms of menopause.
For the purpose of contraception, the COCP uses low levels which inhibit further hormone release by acting on the pituitary gland; it effectively simulates the state of pregnancy.
Even this has risks especially for women with coagulation disorders.
With regard to your comments about men receiving hormone supplementations: the problem here is that testosterone production doesn't actually decrease as you get older. Or at least, falling testosterone seems to be the result of, and not the cause of, age and lifestyle related changes and declines.
This result was shared with my med school class by one of the principle investigators of the 2011 study in the links;
I apologise for using science daily Links as I don't have access to research journals ATM
Anabolic steroids are rife with side effects. In men they make the testes shrivel, they make you develop "bitch tits", they alter your mood and make you more aggressive. Women turn into smaller men with excessive steroid use; they develop lantern jaws, deep voices, and facial and body hair.
I suppose the side effects could be managed, but do you think your average gorilla juicehead with "bigorexia" is going to be smart about controlling when and how much he takes? Fuck no.
That is, I suppose, why they're illegal; they have costly side effects and cause a psychological dependency. I don't agree with banning them, but I can't say I approve of the way they're used by bodybuilders and competitors.
All of these are propaganda because they represent an edge use case. Fructose is horrible for the human body in quantities almost all Americans consume it in on a normal basis.
Obesity, Insulin-Resistance, Impotency, Diabetes, Cardiac, Auto-Immune...the list goes on!
This is not the way to approach this subject. Not all hormones act on the same receptors, not all hormones are synthetic and not all hormones aromatase.
Not that I believe that any drugs should be prohibited by law, but to answer your question, go over to YouTube and look at the videos of people setting off the "Lunk Alarm" at Planet Fitness gyms.
You know there's plenty of people in the startup sphere who powerlift or crossfit who are perfectly well-adjusted, normal human beings right?
And perhaps those lunk alarm videos are to protest a series of ads in which powerlifters and bodybuilders are portrayed as narcissistic morons. Having lifted in one of the most serious gyms in London for both groups, I can say this is most certainly not an accurate depiction.
The first "lunk alarm" video I ever viewed was of a West Point graduate who got tagged for his deadlift hitting the ground "too loudly". For every obnoxious video you may find, there's tens of threads in various bodybuilding and strength forums of people who were asked to leave for doing very basic and non-disruptive barbell lifts.
Even if every single lunk alarm video was as you described, it wouldn't be sufficient to paint a picture of either the bodybuilding or the strength athletics community.
Even if every single lunk alarm video was as you described, it wouldn't be sufficient to paint a picture of either the bodybuilding or the strength athletics community.
I missed the part where I tried to do that. Help me out?
The videos I'm talking about are the ones where someone sets off the lunk alarm and is politely asked to take a chill pill, and responds by trying to tear the building off of its foundation.
You aren't allowed to grunt when lifting weights at Planet Fitness? Why?
I thought it was well known that sharp breathing can increase strength for a short amount of time. Besides, sometimes when you're doing something really exhausting, you'll grunt involuntarily...
