This is gender affirming care.
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Are one million people in the UK using anabolic steroids? (2022)
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Re: Are one million people in the UK using anabolic steroids? (2022)
#22cartoon society
Re: Are one million people in the UK using anabolic steroids? (2022)
#23Yes, glucocorticoids are extremely effective in the treatment of respiratory inflammation diseases such as asthma and copd. I'm genuinely surprized this number isn't higher. Update: Whoops. Apparently, the submitter neglected to mention "anabolic" in the title. That's a pretty glaring omission.
Let's just say that it isn't corticosteroids that 99 % of US cops are on. It wouldn't be the worst idea to have a drug testing regime like truck drivers do. If you can keep truckers off marihuana you can keep cops off anabolic steroids. It would improve the applicant pool, besides anabolic steroids cause bad temper.
Re: Are one million people in the UK using anabolic steroids? (2022)
#24I'm surprised it isn't even higher. TikTok is full of zoomers who haven't even turned 18 yet, and they're already abusing steroids and SARMs. EDIT: I just remembered this article: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/apr/24/why-ther... > But more surprising was the amount of hordenine and ostarine – described by the programme-makers as often being found in gym supplements, which made up more than half of the…
Well this is the UK. Anecdotally I'd guess it's way worse in the US
Re: Are one million people in the UK using anabolic steroids? (2022)
#25TRT is now a fully embedded thing in the United States so this isn't totally surprising. I've talked to way too many 20 year olds who get cypionate from a doc in the box who manages to find "low T" It's just so easy now. And if you need it, great. But for a lot of people it's just a way to boost T for athletic/aesthetic reasons without a ton of attention to the health side of it. The risks are generally low, but boos…
> And if you need it, great.
In defense of the people getting it: that's kind of the tricky part.
My understanding of medical science is that we have a big wide range of what "normal" testosterone levels are in males, and it's expected to drop to some extent as you age, but the range is so big as to be almost meaningless.
I'm not sure what the long-term answer is, but we could benefit a lot from long-term studies on T levels throughout the male lifetime to get a better idea of what the optimal level is for at least the "average" male.
This feels like one of the areas of study that is politically problematic, and therefore avoided.
Re: Are one million people in the UK using anabolic steroids? (2022)
#26This is gender affirming care.
What gender? The result of steroids is beneficial to how most men and women would prefer to look. Leaner and more defined bodies.
Re: Are one million people in the UK using anabolic steroids? (2022)
#27I'm surprised it isn't even higher. TikTok is full of zoomers who haven't even turned 18 yet, and they're already abusing steroids and SARMs. EDIT: I just remembered this article: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/apr/24/why-ther... > But more surprising was the amount of hordenine and ostarine – described by the programme-makers as often being found in gym supplements, which made up more than half of the…
Well, that's the thing, SARMs aren't "steroids" in a technical sense, but are in a colloquial sense. Maybe there's a seemingly low number of people are taking literal anabolic steroids, but are taking other PEDs recreationally instead.
Re: Are one million people in the UK using anabolic steroids? (2022)
#28This is about 1.8% of adult males, if one starts with a (pretty good) first approximation that essentially all anabolic steroid users are adult males over 18.
(I would be really surprised if this figure is higher than the USA, considering the differences in regulation)
Re: Are one million people in the UK using anabolic steroids? (2022)
#29"Maybe steroid abuse is too common" was my thought after watching a shirtless RFK Jr (69) do pushups the other day.
That was so weird. Not one good pushup (more bouncing up and down in the middle of the action without ever reaching the top or bottom of the movement) and he struggled to get to 9. He looks fit, but he's not.
Re: Are one million people in the UK using anabolic steroids? (2022)
#30This is gender affirming care.
I'd be willing to bet a substantial number of these men wouldn't take steroids if society/women didn't reward them for having a chiseled (and often times unnatural) aesthetic, so considering it gender affirming care is a stretch in the general sense.
Gender affirming care actually can include gender-affirming procedures for cisgender people such as reconstructive or cosmetic surgeries. Under that frame I don't see how "I need higher T to feel like a real man" is much different.