well bud, the reason my house is so big is because I didn't put you on trt 10 yrs ago. Hell you paid for it!...my bad.
So I see the bro science post and Vike and H kinda inspired me to touch on this again.
How many of you come back here and say "Doc said my test level was perfectly normal for my age"? Too many to count but I don't want this to be all about trt. I want to expose the general mistrust we should have with our medical community. First of all, we all know its all driven by money, that even ok hell I love the American dream and the almighty buck and free markets etc but this is out of control and has been since around the 50's likely.
As the expense of medicine in general skyrockets docs have absolutely no choice but to go after the dollars to keep the mega costs of doing business in that field managable. I get it! The problem is its unethical to tell someone with a test level uner 200 they are fine. No you're not fine, not even close to fine. In fact, you now have a terminal illness and as that test drops to what should be considered life threatening you are going to begin to depreciate in every single way the body can depreciate. It drives all that is considered health!so the bro science thing often gets an ugly look but as H and V discussed, the best things any of us have learned happened right here in the trenches as H said. We live this day to day, we are the science and don't need some bullshit study to tell us we feel better. We don't need a study to know why our health is better than all those around us. We don't need a study to know we feel hetter than all the family sitting in the shade at the park while we play football. We don't need a study to know we're not fat like everyone else in the food court at the mall. We don't need a study to know we are different in a good way...WE ARE THE STUDY! So if your fat out of shape doc tells you what you are doing is all wrong, say "well what are you doing doc because whatever it is surely thats not the answer?"
Seriously though, if you don't feel good, if you're bloods are not right in higher more productive hormone levels spedding metabolic rate LIKE WHEN YOU WERE YOUNGER, thats not normal. How often have you seen where doc says "your test levels are fine" and this person is on cholesteral meds, bp meds, anti-depressants and on and on? Ok so I get it, more people at a certain age are using medications to mask their symptoms than are not so we have to call that "normal". Sure, its raw numbers and norm would be 70% plus. Step outside the box and look back in to see whats going on, you don't want to be "normal" as to the definition of these people.
Medicine is motivated by money and if you use this life in a very resposible way and stay fit and eat right you will in my opinion exceed the health of those not doing so and if you use trt at the appropriate time in your life I think your life will be better than those not. Its really not even a guess at this point, look at those of us that have taken our own health into our own hands. Does anyone care more about you than you? Of course not, you'll show yourself all sort of attention and do all sorts of research such as here without even charging yourself one co-pay after another. A doc can make a thousand times more money off of you in your life without you being at proper levels of hormone so morality or not, going to be hard for he/she to pass you on to a trt doc and fix you as opposed to medicating you with masking drugs. Btw, if you are on high bp meds, studies show the negative effect on the body as it pertains to high bp is still occuring. This means even though your bp is controlled with meds all the negative forces that are trying to drive it up are still present and still depreciating your body.
I'm not saying don't listen to your doc, they help us often but they will NEVER. Be asmotivated about our health as we are. You owe it to yourself to incorporate bro science into your Docs science because they get it wrong as often as they get it right. Thats why its called "practice", they practice on our goofy asses!
We can take bloods, get physicals and listen to doc and still do further research right here in the trenches to better the science . As many know , the new high norm for test ratio's increased last year by about 200 points. Thats very telling in that the additional proof was that higher test creates better health, the memo should get to the docs within the next 2 decades...not sure how I got it so quick .
This can't be used as a reason to abuse steroids but higher levels of health are hard to argue with. Ever heard a doc say "you just look to good and seem to healthy for your age, we better try to find out whats going on and see if we can make you normal, you should feel like shit by now!
I love my doc but I love my bro science even more because I care about myself! Suck on that healthcare! Lol
Special thanks to all that inspire me to not be on 10 different medications by now...OH NO HE DI'ENT!...TRIPLE SNAP BITCHEZZZ STAY THIRSTY!....but Tread, the pharma rep just dropped off 3 more medications I wanna try out on your goofy ass, why won't you just follow my orders like all the other sheep?