Let Joe Rogan and his fans be insecure in peace.
Shhhh… shortened lifespan is actually a benefit to the rest of us. You want guys like this voting in their 70s and 80s?
They’re being told at 40 they have “low T” compared to a fucking 20 year old…
Which, yeah, no shit.
What’s really bad is by that point the hormone that causes male pattern baldness is also essentially turbocharging what you have to compensate, like making crack out of cocaine.
So a 40 year old male pattern baldness juicing their T to the level of a 20 year old has an effective level much higher.
Even without that, the T just makes you feel 20, you’ve still got 20 years of accumulated damage, you just don’t feel it. Not just the muscularskeletal system, but other stuff like cardiac health as well.
People just can’t handle the fact that they’re not 20 anymore, in the context of midlife crisis, of course a lot of men will convince themselves this makes them 20 again. The problem is our health care system giving it out like candy to make a profit.
A lot of the pleasurable (motivating) aspects of being younger (confidence, lots of energy, high sex drive etc) can also be chalked up to lack of inexperience. You have ideas and expectations that get proven wrong. You hook up with hot girls who turn out to be a massive PITA. You work really hard at some things that don’t amount to much.
Once you’ve been an adult for a decade or two, and actually experienced more of the things that motivated you as a kid, you become a lot more discerning about them and picky about what you apply yourself to. It doesn’t look ‘cool’ but that’s knowledge and wisdom.
A lot of people have no idea what’s happening and rationalize hormonal changes as “I’m wiser” because they’re older…
Even someone that’s legitimately mature who goes on T to be at the level of a teenager, is gonna act like a teenager.
I don’t think you understand how big of a deal testorone is and how much it effects someone.
Do you personally know anyone dumb enough to do this or “peptides” (basically steroids)?
Because I do, so I’m speaking from ancedotal experience as well as the academic research. You’re just massively underestimating testorone.
Pseudo science is a stretch. First of all our food lacks a lot of vitamins and minerals it had 50 years ago. You can’t tell me a lack of nutrition does t affect your hormones.
Now lets pretend TRT takes a decade off your life.
Would you rather go the next 30 years battling depression, fatigue and anxiety or would you rather live an extra 10 years having those symptoms?
We are assuming those ‘extra’ 10 extra years of life are an extra healthy 10 years and not 10 years where you are battling chronic diseases caused by your inability to stay active which was caused by your depression, anxiety and aging.
As we age it becomes progressively difficult to maintain staying active, gaining and maintaining muscle. Diabetes, high blood pressure depression.
Maybe doing TRT and having your bloodwork done routinely like you are supposed to do will minimize the damage from this medicine. Or we could get on antidepressants which have side effects like decreased libido, lower seizure threshold, weight gain etc. I guess in that aspect your quality of life could improve as well because as you’re sitting there doing nothing still, you will be happier. I only mention antidepressants because that was mentioned in the article.
The presumption is that the new make up of food effects hormone levels and that change in levels would be lower levels and that lower levels are responsible for those negative symptoms.
Without actual studies measures those assumptions and/or at least an researched model showing known pathways for that to be true, it’s just convincing fiction.
Equal on par with saying it’s because mercury is in retrograde causing low testorone
I would agree 100% with 404 here. Calling this psuedo science is an insult to psuedo science.
Because insecurity, vanity and ignorance can be very profitable!
are you tired, lethargic. Over 40. Do you not feel as good and strong as you did in your twenties. Then you need to guzzle down my patented man juice. Filled with all the ingredients needed to create mighty men. Youll feel more than a man. Like a man on man on man on man.
Yeah it’s a good question worth asking after those supplements have been on our screens for like 15+ years now with endless commercials. Lol. It’s crazy how many grifts are just allowed to go on in broad daylight.
