TRT is often a clever way of pretending to yourself you’re not cheating. I remember reading an interview with the renowned strength expert Charles Staley. He is totally against any form of doping, yet he admits that he is on TRT, and is „dialed in like an 18yr old“, and that it has made a massive difference to his training and feelings of well being. I can totally understand him, I dabbled with PEDs way back in the 90s, I experienced first hand the massive physiological changes and I also still consider it „the best drug I have ever tried“ in terms of feeling great. But „dialing yourself in like an 18yr old“ has nothing to do with TRT for medical reasons. Here in Germany, it would be near impossible to find a Dr. willing to prescribe, I think the recognized cutoff is around 200ng/dL, and anything regarded as performance enhancement is a serious crime these days. Yet my better half has been prescribed hormone therapy due to menopause….Sometimes, when my strength refuses to budge, I think about it. But not for long. It’s OK the way it is.
TRT is often a clever way of pretending to yourself you’re not cheating. I remember reading an interview with the renowned strength expert Charles Staley. He is totally against any form of doping, yet he admits that he is on TRT, and is „dialed in like an 18yr old“, and that it has made a massive difference to his training and feelings of well being. I can totally understand him, I dabbled with PEDs way back in the 90s, I experienced first hand the massive physiological changes and I also still consider it „the best drug I have ever tried“ in terms of feeling great. But „dialing yourself in like an 18yr old“ has nothing to do with TRT for medical reasons. Here in Germany, it would be near impossible to find a Dr. willing to prescribe, I think the recognized cutoff is around 200ng/dL, and anything regarded as performance enhancement is a serious crime these days. Yet my better half has been prescribed hormone therapy due to menopause….Sometimes, when my strength refuses to budge, I think about it. But not for long. It’s OK the way it is.
Like you, I have no desire to take my neurochemistry back to my 18-25 year old self. I made a lot of poor decisions back then.
Yeah me too, although in hindsight, lots of it was crazy fun! Wouldn’t want to miss it all, even though it was a long way off being „sensible“.
I was psyched to see perimenopause & menopause included in your discussion of this topic — thank you!
Thanks.
Here's a thread over on X that has additional resources:
https://x.com/feelthebyrn1/status/1498412453167783943
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