Well, I don’t worry too much about testosterone at my age–got plenty, but some worry about their T and get shots and such.
Danger Will, DANGER? Could be.
http://acsh.org/2014/01/even-bad-news-supplements-testosterone-treatment-linked-heart-attacks/
Why do you ask questions that you think you know the answer to, get an answer that you don’t expect, and then backpeddle? Your original statement seemed to imply that if I was 20 I knew nothing about the subject and you therefore were right. When I turned out to be much more than 20, then you have no idea what to say, except that you no longer can use the “you’re not old enough” claim to show you’re right. Makes no sense.
good for you. My wife and i do and our opinion stands.
Okay, I’m past that “age”. So is my spouse. Neither of us take any supplements for estrogen or testoterone. We both have more energy than people half our age, much of the time. So my opinion stands.
I take a gel that’s much less hard on the liver and riskfree. After andrenopause it does a world of good. Try it when you get to that age and then ploink an opinion 🙂
Perhaps people should learn that there is a reason things decrease with age. Dumping estrogen in women past menopause turned out poorly. Dosing men with testosterone doesn’t look much better. Of course, then the guy can say “it was a number” like on the commercials, rather than “I am a couch potato who no longer has the energy I had when younger”. Many things slow down as we age–which is why we can live as long as we do. Slowing down is a good thing (not stopping, slowing down)–witness the number of knee replacements in baby boomers who believed they were indestructible.
Testosterone injections are not necessarily “bad for you.” It’s simply that this hormone has an optimal range.
If there is a real risk for T shots in conventional ‘therapeutic’ doses, here’s an obvious explanation: Shortly after the shot, T levels go up into the unhealthful range. Then they settle down into the optimal range. Then they drift down into the less-than-optimal range. And one gets another T shot. There are positive results at one part in the cycle, and negative results in another part. There may also be a downregulation issue.
It’s just a variation on the classical theme: The dose makes the poison. A more rational dose may solve the problem. If one’s T concentration is low to begin with, the dose should be such that the T level never gets above the optimal range.
IOW, the ‘therapeutic’ doses are currently too high. Hey, physicians! Stop the overdosing your geriatric patients.
Here’s another approach. The Journal of Applied Physiology had an article about exercise-induced T increases in younger men. Serious bench press work was somewhat effective. But serious jump squat work was more effective.
Caveat: The study did not look at the effects of these exercises in older men.
Every day, I do Bulgarian squats for my strong leg, and split squats for the other leg. (With jump squats, I’d be at risk for injuring my aging back .) Because this exercise feels really good, there’s no ‘virtue’ issue. Could a T boost be partly responsible for the mood boost?