Actually, shoot enough test and your dick will get bigger. This was even verified by Jose Conseco's wife in his book and I dunno, about a billion other dudes on the planet that have run heavy cycles. Which is why I laugh when uneducated mental midgets say shit like "steroids shrink your dick!"

Actually, it's your balls. And you don't really need your balls if you don't plan on having kids anymore. So for those people it just means a bigger dong, stronger libido, more muscle mass and strength, and less bodyfat. So pretty much, it just makes you more awesome.

Well, thanks for your response. I was hoping for something more than a personal opinion and an invitation to visit wiki. But I appreciate your honesty.

I don't really agree with your views on the scientific community and their role in supplements. There are very good reasons for outlawing all supplements. It's currently a giant unregulated misinformed mess of a market. And abolishing it has nothing to do with telling you want you can or can't put into your body. It's all about the snake oil manufacturers selling things as a cure all supplement with little to no evidence to support it. If it has the label "Supplement", there's no regulation on it, and the manufacturer can claim it makes your dick grow a foot, and they don't have to prove that it does. And many uninformed people out there will believe anything the label tells them. That's why supplements are treated with as much skepticism as they are. It's not some big scientific scandal at all.

We are going to have to agree to disagree. Some things should be self-evident like absorbing all the c you put in your system when you are sick. Your body is using it. The supps I take have well documented benefits. I am not going to waste and entire day digging stuff up for you. Anyone taking D3 and C will notice they get sick a lot less. I am sure there are many posters right here who can verify that for you although you won't believe it because some government agency may post an article saying it is horseshit and just a placebo. When I came in here talking about the eliminating allergies (hayfeaver) with garlic I had even the most skeptical of poster in Dave confirm it works. When I talked about topical green tea eliminating the earliest signs of skin cancer I got laughed off the board but have had confirmations since. I will agree with you that there is a ton of supplementation out there that is crap and even more manufacturers who produce inferior products but people like you are far more dangerous than the supplementation industry. You would have people believe that the only thing that works in the world is big pharms take through the FDA. Outlawing supplementation wasn't a scientific scandal as much as it was a follow the money scandal initiated by big pharm using their scientists to say anything that was necessary to gain control of a 60 Billion dollar industry. I don't know what's more amazing your inability to grasp that or your outright denial that supplementation of any kind has benefits and makes a difference in people's quality of life. Outlawing supplementation wasn't really outlawing it at all, you could still get it but now it would be by prescription from your doctor straight from big pharm.

Guy I know at the bar just had testosterone implants injected into his butt cheek. Is that the same kind of testosterone you are talking about here?

wtf?

What kind of bars do you hang out in?

I think he meant botox ... not testosterone, Mr. vailpass.

I think your bar buddy got a butt lift.

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Shhhhh. Hes from denver.

If there are well documented benefits, then it shouldn't be hard to dig up your "Sources". I managed to dig up plenty that support my stance, and didn't waste an entire day. All you're offering up is personal opinions. If my information is untrue, then it should't take much effort to find the truth. But OK...

And FYI... you should limit the amount of Vitamin C you put into your body. Too much Vitamin C can cause stomach ache, diarrhea, and can slow metabolism. The body can only absorb so much, and anything past that isn't beneficial and can be pretty uncomfortable.

You have also grossly confused my opinions on pretty much everything in your post. I really hate Big Pharm. I don't support them, and I feel they do much more harm than good. I've never said that supplements provide no benefits for anything. What I said was that they rarely provide the benefits described, and aren't worth the money for the majority of people. Big difference. Also, you continue to lump Big Pharm and the Supplement industry together. They are not the same thing.

Big Pharm is at least somewhat held to a standard of proof by the FDA. I know you think the FDA is also evil. And while they are far from perfect, the good they do far outweighs the bad. Big Pharm would be infinitely worse without the FDA. The Supplement industry has zero standards at all. They can claim whatever they want, and they can even hire an actor to put on a doctor's gown and claim it as a proven miracle cure. Outlawing supplementation wouldn't just shift the product into Big Pharm's domain. It would shift it into the FDA's domain, which would require testing and studies to be done before allowing supplement manufacturers to make health claims for it. But that would be the supplement industry's undoing though, since it would require proof. The industry would simply go away for the most part, because they could no longer legally sell lies.

To say that I'm worse than the entire supplement industry is pretty funny. My only goal is for people to be correctly informed, and not believe whatever BS is printed on the bottle. Seek out further information. Look into studies that have been done. Look into studies that both support and criticize, and decide for yourself. Just don't base your decisions on personal opinions that aren't founded.

I hadn't heard of it either. Guy I see at happy hour fairly regularly; our kids go to the same school. Commercial real estate developer; successful dude. Over general drunk talk at the bar a couple months ago he mentioned he had low testosterone and was having these time release testosterone pellets shot into his ass. Saw him again last week, he said he was really happy with the procedure. Said he felt a lot more energy and had lead in his pencil again.
I called bullshit. We looked it up on my phone, sure enough there it is still in my search history. Stuff is called testopel.

Now I hear talk of testosterone here, second time in a week I've heard people talking about it. Just wondering it's the same substance, just administered differently or if the weight lifters use something else.

:) NTTAWWT

It's the rage, now. I also know two different local dudes who committed suicide after getting on the shit. People are having kids later. Their kids get in high school/college and they start wanting to become "hip" again because they have more time on their hands to go out and hang with their wives, only they're nearing 50 years old. So they start getting testosterone in order to recapture their youth. While it may work for some, the results aren't always good.

You know two guys that committed suicide and it was caused by testosterone? I'm skeptical that the testosterone would have been the cause.

So you want big brother to tell you what's good for you rather then leaving it up to people to do their own research and choose for themselves?