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Gossip & Opinions / Re: Hormones and intense excercise builds muscle
« Last post by Van_Bilderass on Today at 08:50:08 PM »
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 and sometimes the difference is irrelevant. Semantic discussion of peace
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