This is a photo of me around the time I was told, with a straight face by a doctor who I was considering as my new physician—and I kid you not here—“You’re overweight ACCORDING TO "THE CHART" and you’ll have to lose 15 lbs.” I was wearing a tank top at the time.
It brings to mind the old joke:
Question: What do you call the person who graduates last among his classmates in Medical School?
Answer: "Doctor."
World Champion Long Distance Swimmer Ross Edgely was told by medical “professionals” after having a full body scan that he had “very few physical attributes to be a good swimmer.” He went on to swim the full circumference of Great Britain. He set the world record in 2018 taking 2,300,000 strokes.
I and others have been informed by doctors that “The Chart” states we have "normal" testosterone at around 270 dL. Keep in mind that this ludicrous chart which serves as their Bible states that “normal” lies anywhere between 270 dL. and 1070 dL.! So, to clarify, those with 1070 dL.—ALMOST 4 times the amount of testosterone as someone with a 270 dL. reading, are considered EQUALLY NORMAL? And thus those in the low range do not qualify for testosterone replacement therapy?
Your doctor may spout this preposterous logic-defying bullshit without batting an eye, so invested are they in not questioning their "charts" or the outdated crap they learned in med school.
If you are seeking testosterone replacement, and your doctor says no, remind him that in today’s social climate, if a 16 year old girl came into his office with a psychiatrist’s note affirming that she was emotionally a male, for no other reason other than she believed it to be true, that rather than risk blowback from the LGBTQ powers that be in our crazily “politically correct” and litigious environment, he would most surely provide that biological female with testosterone, while at the same time declining to provide the essential hormone to YOU as a biological male.
These same doctors admit prescribing needless, uncalled-for antibiotics to patients who "insist" on having them despite the overall harm done, because, as widely reported in the media, they feel "pressured" by the patient to do so. What? They respond to pressure from patients who insist on being prescribed needless and potentially harmful antibiotics, but do not respond to pressure from men suffering with a myriad of hellish physical and emotional problems that will be successfully treated by TRT? Who the hell is in charge here anyway?
These same doctors have no qualms about prescribing a pharmaceutical like Propecia, which has potential serious side effects—and is shown to be ineffective overall—to attempt to “regrow” lost hair in older men, or others having potential serious side effects. They prescribe Cialis and Viagra to allow guys who can’t or have no desire to get it up to achieve an erection when the actual problem is LOW TESTOSTERONE. Yet many doctors, based either on willful ignorance or their own lack of initiative in keeping current per the latest findings debunking the mistaken beliefs they were force-fed in medical school, recoil at restoring the essential natural testosterone we as males once had.
The absence of testosterone causes diminishment of overall QUALITY OF LIFE. This deficit is responsible for the loss of lean muscle mass (within which our immune system resides), strength, fitness, positive outlook, emotional equilibrium, stamina, metabolism, and one's loss of interest in previously cherished goals and interests. Low test is responsible for belly fat accumulation, man-boobs, softening of the skin and other manifestations of unwanted feminization.
Your doctor might spout risk factors based on invalidated "studies" in an attempt to dissuade you. Not one person in the US in 2018 could be shown to have died nor been seriously injured stemming directly from testosterone replacement therapy, as opposed to say, Tylenol, which killed 450 Americans in 2017 and accounts for about 50,000 emergency room visits and 25,000 hospitalizations yearly.—and any 5 year old little child can buy Tylenol at the corner 7-11 with no doctor protesting that!
Additionally, previously published 2013 flawed studies in JAMA claiming negative outcomes or bad side effects from testosterone replacement therapy have since been debunked, and multiple medical organizations (17 in number) have petitioned JAMA to REMOVE these 2013 studies from their journal and research materials. Testosterone replacement in truth has shown clinically to be of enormous BENEFIT, in case your doctor is lagging in his required keeping up with all things medical, as many inexplicably and unethically are.
Watch the video below by this Harvard Medical School Professor that debunks all the "findings" regarding cardiac risks associated with testosterone:
For DECADES the world's doctors based their treatment of men with prostate cancer on a circa 1941 (!!) ABSURDLY FLAWED "study" by a Nobel Prize-winning physician that involved only ONE PATIENT. Watch this video debunking the Prostate Cancer MYTH risk of testosterone:
We have to fight for what is right, for that which supports and preserves our quality of life as we age, and AGAINST that which robs us of it.
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