And yes, you are on "steroids".....testosterone is a sex hormone....otherwise known as a sex STEROID. You want to throw semantics out...there's one for you. Bioidentical or not...it IS a steroid.
It is ALSO a drug. A prescription DRUG.
Just to harp on semantics. I know what you mean, though some or many researchers make a distinction between testosterone and
anabolic steroids. Lots of scientific articles say "testosterone and anabolic steroids" as if there's a difference. The difference is that anabolic steroids a lot of times is meant to mean testosterone or other androgen
derivatives (whether 19-nors, DHT, or testosterone derivatives*) with a steroid structure which were specifically developed for heightening the
anabolic effect versus the androgenic. Of course test is anabolic too and of course it is a steroid as you say. And I know you know all this too, I'm not arguing you don't. But the distinction is sometimes made and it's based on something real but perhaps irrelevant in some discussion. I got into this debate on IG where I explained this and someone said, "fuck you, test is an anabolic steroid." Yes and no, sometimes the distinction is made, and I explained why.
Of course someone might not want to say they are on "anabolic steroids" for different reasons, like for claiming they are actually
natural, and sometimes the difference is irrelevant. Semantic discussion of peace
There are other terms used that might be irrelevant too, like bioidentical and prohormone. I think many are a bit unclear on what is meant by bioidentical. Same with prohormone. Prohormone is often used by scientists but a drug testing org like WADA makes no distinction between anabolic steroids and what is sold as "prohormones" or "andro"-whatever. Some common anabolic steroids might actually be termed prohormones as the active metabolites formed in the body might be what causes most of the anabolic or whatever else response.
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