University of Texas study suggests cardiac/stroke risk from testosterone use

Shit!!! I've been keeping my exogenous testosterone across the street.

I am going to say this, and it may not be popular. But somewhere in the recesses of most of our minds, we think about it. Testosterone is why men die before women. It is why men die of cardiac issues at a greater rate than women. The proof isn't there, but that is most likely because there is pharmaceutical money that prevents studies of that nature, and most scientist don't want to study drug abuse. Now here is the point: I decided a long time ago that living wasn't about biological life. Statistically, I shouldn't ride a motorcycle. I have two, just in case I smash one and live; I can ride when I get home. I climbed Mount Everest last year even though, statistically, I had a 10% chance of death even if I made the top...and I did (I built the ultimate high altitude AAS stack--for anyone who wants to know). They said my big ass had no chance--FUCK YOU...TAKE THE MONEY AND GIVE ME MY TENT. Statistically, a pencil pushing nerd shouldn't be able to score an elite total...fucking watch me.

AAS allow you to beat your genetic allowance. Nature/God (whatever you believe) gave you a certain allotment...and you weren't satisfied with it. Its like when you were a kid and ran your paper route for $5 bucks but managed to show up at home with a $300 dollar game console that you couldn't afford, but they know you didn't steal. You hustled for it. I hustle my life. I hustle nature. Fuck the $5 bucks...I want more.

Now will I have to pay? Maybe...maybe not. But I have lived my life beyond my potential, and I am ok with the check after that meal. On some level we all know this which is why we say "find your genetic potential first--then juice" because at the end of the day we all suspect that there may be a consequence associated with our actions, and we all want to know what we paid for with those consequences. If you juiced at 17 to get some bullshit abs, go on trt, and pay with your life at 60--you knew, suspected, or should have known. In the end it depends on many genetic factors. My father smoked for 40 years...died of Creutzfeldt Jakob disease--Talk about a bad fucking hand. I learned more from that drunk in death more than I ever learned from him in life.

A few of you will read this and say: Fuck that guy, he is just lying/bragging. Truth is--what is the difference? I no more feel obligated to lie to you by internet tall tales or to impress you with fantastic details of my life than I feel obligated to some swollen bellied african child that I see some fat guy begging me to feed at night when I can't sleep. I just wanted my couple of pennies in on this one for some perspective on why some people do what it is that we all do. I don't do this to cheat...I do this to be physically better than I could ever hope to genetically be with maximal effort. I don't cheat society...I beat nature. If I knew you were selling 60 years of awesome in a 10ml vial with no chance of 70....I would buy that shit in bulk.

Live life with no regrets. I'll die happy knowing I experienced everything I wanted to and hustled the hell out of Mother Nature, trying to make a dollar out of 15 cents. I agree, my ribeye is well worth the check at the end of the meal and I've come to terms with mortality, I plan on doing what I enjoy seeing as I only live once and that means lifting heavy shit lol
 
Halfwit....you have to be right...you are never wrong...I said so earlier in another post before you gave me the bad ass poster with Chris Hansen! Some people hate to think that this finite life we live in gets shorter if they do certain things. It is like the stages of death with roids....denial is stage one. It may not be so...but I figured pointing it out could be unpopular.
 
Halfwit....you have to be right...you are never wrong...I said so earlier in another post before you gave me the bad ass poster with Chris Hansen! Some people hate to think that this finite life we live in gets shorter if they do certain things. It is like the stages of death with roids....denial is stage one. It may not be so...but I figured pointing it out could be unpopular.
Maybe only to those still in denial my brother. I accept my impending death and know I'm going to ride the hell out of the life I have left to its fullest. Besides, life is better when you can pick up and put down heavy things. ;)
 
Awesome post joliver.

EDIT: and please describe the high altitude AAS stack!


You may not want to hear it because it is a long run, but it is pretty much 250mg of test-e, 250mg of EQ every 5 days for 36 weeks before the climb. Two months out, start the winstrol 50mgs per day. I am pretty sure you will have yogurt and not blood at this point. Take an aspirin per day.

Acclimatization and the climb can take two months. You can either figure out how to "get your gear there" or talk to the high altitude physician about prescribed carry. Either way, you need at least test. I only took test while on the mountain. Double your dosage and increase the time between injects to 10 days. Then stand at the top of the world....and be the man.

It may not be the best, but it got me there.
 
Joliver.
I d rep you 10 times but they frown on that..

You really took the words out of my mouth.

AAS have allowed me to still stay in relatively good shape at 50 and 200 pounds. Despite 2 gunshot s, 1 stabbing, a rod in my back, no right eye left, a finger half bit off and a cadavor acl, a pinned left delt, half a prostate removed in June... oh and a bulging disc at c4 and 5, I can still train faithfully. AAS makes this possible. No fkn doubt about it.

I m strong enough yet still able to excel in my shooting, cqc and ccp...I make my living deterring bad people with thought s of dealing with me, my dog, my asp, my 9, my 223....in a uncool way.

However under all the body armour and extra SHIT, is my combat chasis. My body. Muscles are my last line of defense .My airbags. It has always paid the bills.
 
Joliver.
I d rep you 10 times but they frown on that..

You really took the words out of my mouth.

AAS have allowed me to still stay in relatively good shape at 50 and 200 pounds. Despite 2 gunshot s, 1 stabbing, a rod in my back, no right eye left, a finger half bit off and a cadavor acl, a pinned left delt, half a prostate removed in June... oh and a bulging disc at c4 and 5, I can still train faithfully. AAS makes this possible. No fkn doubt about it.

I m strong enough yet still able to excel in my shooting, cqc and ccp...I make my living deterring bad people with thought s of dealing with me, my dog, my asp, my 9, my 223....in a uncool way.

However under all the body armour and extra SHIT, is my combat chasis. My body. Muscles are my last line of defense .My airbags. It has always paid the bills.


Keep fighting the fight. That is SPARTAN.

You know, every once in a while, I hear a story about a physical trauma, wreck, or some violent mishap and the physician tells the family: "if he hadn't been in such good shape, he wouldn't have survived." I know they are saying--if he hadn't been jacked with enhanced muscles, bones, tendons, blood volume and profiles, he would be dead. Basically--had the poor bastard been average, he wouldn't be alive. I occasionally tip my hat to the sauce. Maybe its just me....


May your last line of defense always be your best and most reliable.

Godspeed, sir.
 
I'm honestly dreading my appointment later this month. I've lost a bit of body fat (thanks 3J!) and have continued to grow; especially in my shoulders. He's going to say something, I know it. Of course I dread it also because it's time for that dreaded digital prostate exam. Thank god he's a small asian with little hands! LOL

But yes, I honestly think that my frame and overall size is what kept docs from even looking into hormones for so long. I only wish the internet had resources like this back when I started noticing things weren't "quite right".

You absolutely hit the nail on the head bro. Like I said in my other posts.
Doc's took a look at me in Europe when I went for a test script and they basically said: "Walk, there is no way you need T"...
They tend to judge a book by it's cover.
 
Have to be honest Teutonic, your post made me think of one thing, and one thing only:

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OP here. No worries. But I was remembering, while reading your response, that anger management issues, according to another U of T study, was shown to make a man's testicles bigger but scrotum smaller :spin:
Who can say what the difference was between the two study groups. Perhaps the guys on T were having more sex and just generally more fun that they guys who didn't. Not to temp fate, but I would prefer to be in that group and went out with a smile, rather than the poor saps who sat at home and rusted into oblivion.
yeah NOT hating on YOU, its the study.
Thanks for posting! :-)
 
Shit!!! I've been keeping my exogenous testosterone across the street.

I am going to say this, and it may not be popular. But somewhere in the recesses of most of our minds, we think about it. Testosterone is why men die before women. It is why men die of cardiac issues at a greater rate than women. The proof isn't there, but that is most likely because there is pharmaceutical money that prevents studies of that nature, and most scientist don't want to study drug abuse. Now here is the point: I decided a long time ago that living wasn't about biological life. Statistically, I shouldn't ride a motorcycle. I have two, just in case I smash one and live; I can ride when I get home. I climbed Mount Everest last year even though, statistically, I had a 10% chance of death even if I made the top...and I did (I built the ultimate high altitude AAS stack--for anyone who wants to know). They said my big ass had no chance--FUCK YOU...TAKE THE MONEY AND GIVE ME MY TENT. Statistically, a pencil pushing nerd shouldn't be able to score an elite total...fucking watch me.

AAS allow you to beat your genetic allowance. Nature/God (whatever you believe) gave you a certain allotment...and you weren't satisfied with it. Its like when you were a kid and ran your paper route for $5 bucks but managed to show up at home with a $300 dollar game console that you couldn't afford, but they know you didn't steal. You hustled for it. I hustle my life. I hustle nature. Fuck the $5 bucks...I want more.

Now will I have to pay? Maybe...maybe not. But I have lived my life beyond my potential, and I am ok with the check after that meal. On some level we all know this which is why we say "find your genetic potential first--then juice" because at the end of the day we all suspect that there may be a consequence associated with our actions, and we all want to know what we paid for with those consequences. If you juiced at 17 to get some bullshit abs, go on trt, and pay with your life at 60--you knew, suspected, or should have known. In the end it depends on many genetic factors. My father smoked for 40 years...died of Creutzfeldt Jakob disease--Talk about a bad fucking hand. I learned more from that drunk in death more than I ever learned from him in life.

A few of you will read this and say: Fuck that guy, he is just lying/bragging. Truth is--what is the difference? I no more feel obligated to lie to you by internet tall tales or to impress you with fantastic details of my life than I feel obligated to some swollen bellied african child that I see some fat guy begging me to feed at night when I can't sleep. I just wanted my couple of pennies in on this one for some perspective on why some people do what it is that we all do. I don't do this to cheat...I do this to be physically better than I could ever hope to genetically be with maximal effort. I don't cheat society...I beat nature. If I knew you were selling 60 years of awesome in a 10ml vial with no chance of 70....I would buy that shit in bulk.

I dont agree with you, there are MANY factors related to this, I do not agree its only testosterone (if at all) if anything it declines as we age and not long ago there WAS NO Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT), so the same argument could be that due to low test is why men die early... Sorry but i do not agree with you on that point.
 
I dont agree with you, there are MANY factors related to this, I do not agree its only testosterone (if at all) if anything it declines as we age and not long ago there WAS NO Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT), so the same argument could be that due to low test is why men die early... Sorry but i do not agree with you on that point.

I think your counterpoint is valid. My point isn't about the evidence, it is about what I am willing to sacrifice in the event that the ambiguous and contradictory evidence does fall on the wrong side of the fence. I am ok with those consequences if I can outperform my genetic potential.
 
All those guys were 60 + in that study and had previous heart attacks, strokes before going on TRT...
They were diabetic as well the study says...
They were probably hypogonadal for years cause their physicians never tested it...so who's to say the Low T all those years is not a culprit behind this recent revelation ?
 
PHD Researcher Thoughts

Hopefully I'm not doing another repeart, but I found a counter to the U of T study. It basically states what we already knew.

Testosterone-Bashing Study Is Misleading: Expert

I am a PHD candidate, although not in a medicinal field we apply the same quantitative methods in this study. I would like to first express my appreciation for all the post, and secondly to the poster that I quoted who gave a rebuttal.

The original post is a TERRIBLE WAY to present research. Now I am sure it is not the researchers that framed the conversation but probably some headline grabbing journalist. When you look at the sample size you are looking only at a 6% difference. Those who had TRT died at a 26% clip those who didn't did at a 20% clip.

One has to wonder if there is some endogenous factors going on. For example, if the individuals who did TRT did it because they felt worse than those who did not and thought that TRT would help may have been at higher risk in the first place.

There is no way to adequately compare those who had a prior heart attack or heart risk with those who have not when looking at data on TRT. You simply can't there are to many exogenous factors. Now if the same study did it with men like myself with no prior history of major illness, simply low T and the data showed the same thing I would think about it.

But like some of the guys on this thread stated, is having a 6% higher chance of dying a little earlier worth feeling better the years that you live?????
 
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