This is gender affirming care.
Are you sure? This is the UK (not US), where eg the Tavistock clinic was closed down.
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)
#32TRT 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…
When people's body stop producing testosterone on their own and they are forced to spend money on weekly injections for the rest of their life people will learn :) When you can't go anywhere or travel without your testosterone injections people will see how overkill it was to get on HRT. Hope these people are comfortable freezing their sperm. Now if you are over the age of 60-65 blast away
Re: Are one million people in the UK using anabolic steroids? (2022)
#33I'm kinda interested in SARMs which purportedly give the benefits of anabolic steroids without the very serious side-effects
There seems to be a massive grey market for peptide SARMs at least in the US
Re: Are one million people in the UK using anabolic steroids? (2022)
#34Is there a similar thing for estrogen? What's the estrogen use in the UK and how is it used comparatively?
Birth control pills contain Progesterone and Estrogen (well, actually Estradiol), so the figure is probably really high.
Re: Are one million people in the UK using anabolic steroids? (2022)
#35TRT 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…
>The risks are generally low, but boosting to higher T levels does come with real health risks that should be met with regular testing with a doctor.
Most people don't have a clue. That includes doctors.
- the reference range has been adapted times and times again
- testosterone levels have been falling since industrial times
- for some strange and contrived reasons a lot of people think that the levels of a healthy 18-year old are "unhealthy" as soon as you pass 40. But you should ask yourself what makes it "unhealthy". And why a low level should be "healthy"
Instead of judging the 20 year olds who want to be at the upper range you should have a look at the side effects which come with the lower range. And then have a look at the general population and check for these side effects.
Re: Are one million people in the UK using anabolic steroids? (2022)
#36"Maybe steroid abuse is too common" was my thought after watching a shirtless RFK Jr (69) do pushups the other day.
Living in FL (the home of TRT therapy) I’m blown away with what I see regularly at the gym.
Like RFK you will regularly (every day) see men in their 60s that have the muscle mass and definition of someone in their 20s. It’s still a lot of hard work, and I’m not calling it cheating, but it’s extremely obvious.
There’s a lot of talk of female beauty standards but looking at The Rock, Hugh Jackman, and countless others all the diet and training in the world cannot maintain that physique into their fifties. It’s ridiculous they do interviews and give the classic “broccoli and chicken” line. Personally I’m also skeptical younger actors are able to achieve physiques that are top tier for professional athletes naturally - and often do it in months between roles.
Even when they give details of their training (two a days for hours) that’s just not possible at that age without the tremendous improvements in recovery that performance enhancing drugs provide.
Re: Are one million people in the UK using anabolic steroids? (2022)
#37After skipping gym for one month I'm losing all muscles and turning into the weakling I am. I'm wondering on every visit "how these guys maintain their muscles?! they must be injecting, inserting, and swallowing some substances... right?"
It’s not that hard to maintain
Re: Are one million people in the UK using anabolic steroids? (2022)
#38Used responsibly, testosterone supplementation has multiple upsides with relatively little downside, even for men who do not have naturally low T.
Unfortunately it looks like a few tik-tok kids are going to ruin it for everyone. Same as most good things in life I guess.
Re: Are one million people in the UK using anabolic steroids? (2022)
#39For context, that works out to roughly three quarters of a percent or so of the whole population of the UK.
Yeah but more reasonable to compare it males in a certain age group.
Re: Are one million people in the UK using anabolic steroids? (2022)
#40After skipping gym for one month I'm losing all muscles and turning into the weakling I am. I'm wondering on every visit "how these guys maintain their muscles?! they must be injecting, inserting, and swallowing some substances... right?"
Occam's razor to the rescue: they're not skipping gym, and eating consequently (which I guess falls under "swallowing some substances")