hatersinmyward wrote:
Meanwhile, these Mormon Suits are pushing androgel like it's flippin' candy. Weed is far less dangerous for a person than anabolic steroids by far, yet androgel's kosher because you get it form your doctor.wtf!!!
what?! Androgel is rather innocent. It is wrong to compare bioidentical testosterone with synthetic anabolic steroids like dianabol or deca.
Testosterone is a substance in a normal male body and has been tested by nature for millions of years. It is "natural" (I am committing the naturalistic fallacy of course--but it is true in an important sense). The goal of transdermal TRT creams and gels is merely to keep the level of natural testosterone at a relatively youthful level and not at the supraphysiologic levels sought by bodybuilders. Bodybuilders know that it has basically zero visible effect. A bodybuilder who used testosterone would seek to reach blood levels at least ten times as much as what one could get from a silly T-cream.
Used properly it is one of the most innocent pharmaceuticals out there. in my opinion, Advil is way way more dangerous and Tylenol even worse.
Testosterone creams are available at local "compounding pharmacies" as well. One doesn't have to support big pharma.
It is popular with doctors that are big on "natural" medicine. (Not that I think such so called natural products are the way to go--some of that is nonsense. The homeopathic stuff is absolute nonsense.)
On the other hand, there is no patent on it (test itself) and so it is hard to make money off of. I suspect any systematic effort to bad mouth it might be traced to plans for marketing of a synthetic alternative with a better promise for profit but more unknowns. Beware. I am personally quite confident that real testosterone is the better choice.
Again, it is primarily for the aged male. It helps maintain bone density, normal musculature and maybe even libido.
Androgel will not make you buff like Arnold and it will not likely cause other major health problems--at least for most people.
Please don't start another irrational uninformed campaign!
Besides, I doubt the Mormons are pushing it. That sounds like your imagination.
when believers want to give their claims more weight, they dress these claims up in scientific terms. When believers want to belittle atheism or secular humanism, they call it a "religion". -Beastie
yesterday's Mormon doctrine is today's Mormon folklore.-Buffalo