Personally I love lox, which is brined salmon. I could eat lox every day, it’s so delicious. But for me the high cost makes it more an occasional treat. The brand I buy at Safeway supermarkets is farm-raised in Norway. Clean pristine icy fijords are home to these farms. So, no worries, right?
We are told that salmon is one of the planet’s most healthy Wonderfoods, especially that which is imported from Norway. I ordinarily never eat any farmed fish, raised in ponds, my previous concern being the high amount of feces in these ponds. So when I saw photos of the Norwegian salmon farms, which are situated right within the cold clear fijords surrounded by snowcapped mountains, I decided Norwegian farmed fish must be as good as wild-caught, right?
Wrong.
This documentary is required viewing if you consume seafood. Astonishingly it shows Norwegian fish farmers dressed head to toe in protective gear spraying huge amounts of pesticides into the water because the fish are plagued with diseases, lice and other parasites due to extreme overcrowding. An underwater robot reveals an accumulation of 15 meters (almost 50 feet!) of toxic sludge sitting at the bottom. It also reveals that the food pellets the fish are fed are themselves full of toxins. Why would there be toxins in the food being fed to fish?
The fish ponds of Vietnam also shown in the documentary are far less picturesque than those of Scandinavia, the fish having been bloated artificially to 2X normal size, filled with pesticides and antibiotics, and raised in waters lined by villagers who use the waterway as a toilet.
In Buffalo, Crossfit owners show the city, and the world, how little they care about them.
At my gym in Hilo, Hawaii, it's the same deniers' mentality. Despite heavy breathing and thus, exercisers' droplets spreading farther and faster than under normal breathing conditions, no masks required.
Fish products make up a significant part of bodybuilders and fitness freaks' diets. Canned fish products in some cases are less expensive than fresh or frozen.
However, canned products from China are unsafe overall. The cans/solder contain dangerous levels of LEAD. Lead has been proven to significantly diminish brain function, especially in children, as well as lowering the consumer's actual intelligence. This is not an empty claim: Google it for yourself.
One of the most egregious violators of lead contamination is BUMBLE BEE. Tellingly, the company makes it impossible to contact them to lodge a protest. ANY company that requires the consumer to jump through preposterous hoops in order to initiate contact is a wildly-waving red flag. There is no reason whatsoever not to provide a simple email link - that is, for companies that are NOT trying to discourage customer communication. The amount of codes, dates and numbers that BUMBLE BEE requires in order to initiate contact is absurd, and as I predicted, when their form is complete as to their highly detailed specs, you get an ERROR message.
The insanity of companies having contempt for their own customers goes without saying, and in BUMBLE BEE's case is just part and parcel of their culture of disrespect and disregard, especially when it comes to food safety.
Food safety and cleanliness is paramount to not only your fitness success, but to your overall health and well being.
Year after year I run across articles like this one in GQ Magazine that publish “Best Of” Lists[LINK] based on no evidence, testing, or professional qualifications whatsoever.
No supplement is more crucial to your workout results than protein. Protein is also crucial for anti-aging, as one wants to maintain as much lean body mass as possible, whether one works out or not, since both our metabolism and our immune system reside within our lean muscle mass.
One way to check GQ’s results is to run them by independent lab testers such as LabDoor.com [LINK].
Not even one of GQ/Mick Rouse’s choices appear anywhere near the top of LabDoor’s rankings.
People naturally reject anything that doesn't dovetail with their current choices. And the time-honored "You are what you eat" is a prime example.
Canada's CBC has a great show called Marketplace that reveals how food corporations — with the approval of the US' FDA, Canada's CFIA, and similar government agencies worldwide — defraud us by promoting the labeling of their products as "healthy," when in fact they are a danger to our health.
"Garbage in, garbage out" certainly applies to the diet we choose, so those who expect quality muscular gains from hard workouts that are followed by a stop at McDonalds or Pizza Hut have to realize how dumb that is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUKOt_SvTQc
A bigger concern, rejected furiously by parents with kids who are autistic or suffer AHD and other behavioral problems and health problems, is that their choices - smoking, drinking, drugging, junk food eating - degraded the health and viability of their sperm and their eggs. Worse, when females continue these terrible choices while pregnant, the fetus cannot possibly develop to its full potential.
Jeff Cavaliere's hundreds of ATHLENE X videos stress safety and proper form.
I spend a good amount of time online—maybe too much. I see things that are disturbing, especially on Bodybuilding/Fitness sites, Facebook and Instagram pages and more.
There is a fascination online - even among the crowd known as elderly - with moving ridiculously heavy weights to gain attention. And many of the remarks viewers leave on their videos and photos encourage them even further. I assume these posters pay no mind to the negative or cautionary remarks, because some of these people I have bookmarked, only to find no trace of them a few months later. Did they lose interest? Get injured? Die? We’ll never know.
"Just remember that for many,
getting in over their head leads to drowning."
Boasting, showing off, seeking approval are all behaviors of insecure people, so understand that’s what you are seeking before setting out on an attention-seeking path. It’s a disorder that afflicts people of every age. Just look at the videos of young people setting themselves on fire, jumping off roofs and ingesting inedible items of every sort—just for a little attention. Midlife crises are a well known reaction to reaching a certain age, and the urge for such people to engage in unhealthy, injurious or dangerous behaviors to “prove” that they “still have it” all too oftenturns out to have quite the opposite effect of what they intended. We can achieve muscle growth and strength safely even into our 100s, as proven in a number of University studies utilizing residents of senior rest homes as guinea pigs. Just remember that for many, getting in over your head leads to drowning. If you don’t know how to work out safely, YouTube is your friend. Start doing your research.
There’s no explanation for anti-maskers, anti-vaxxers, dictator-supporters and chaos-lovers. It’s all beyond comprehension.
Every single day insects vaccinate anti-vaxxers with their filthy mandibles: gnats, mosquitos, flies, dust mites, eyelash mites, ticks, etc., etc. — injecting filth, toxins, bacteria, viruses and more directly into anti-vaxxers’ bodies. Anti-vaxxers are obviously fine with this as not a word is spoken about it. But they are sent into an apoplectic rage over a sterile needle injecting life-saving medicine. Also, every anti-vaxxer has herself been vaccinated, so there’s that hypocrisy - not to mention the associate child abuse.
My gym, BJ Penn in Hilo Hawaii, has a big sign on the door: “NO ENTRANCE WITHOUT MASK.” After entering you must be buzzed through the locked gate which has the same sign on it. Signs are posted everywhere inside on the mirrors and machines. Spray bottles with disinfectant are at every machine.
I went in to work out and nearby was an asshole without a mask. Additionally he did not wipe down the machine as the gym policy demanded. Immediately I saw an employee walk by, look at this guy, and continue on, saying nothing to him. I followed the employee to the front desk:
ME - You saw that guy not wearing a mask and said nothing. He’s also not wiping down the machine.
EMPLOYEE - Yeah, I know. What can you do?
ME - What do you mean? You have the rules posted.
EMPLOYEE - Sorry, I don’t have the authority.
ME- You don’t have the authority? It’s a PRIVATE Business. You set the rules. Obey the rules or get out.
EMPLOYEE - I can't do that. He might cause trouble.
ME- Then call the police. You instead choose to insult every other member here by allowing one asshole to flaunt the rules and endanger everyone else?
EMPLOYEE - Sorry. (head tilt)
Beginning today it was announced that everything on the island of Oahu (Honolulu) is shut down for two weeks, thanks to the rule-breakers and the business owners who don’t enforce the rules. I feel sorry for the responsible business owners who despite complying may now may lose their businesses altogether, but it’s the rule breaker assholes they need to be enraged with, not the government.
Watching young people at the gym performing joint-killing moves like this - that somehow they believe are beneficial - is bad enough, but seeing out-of-shape older people doing shit like this is beyond all.
In this 30-second video we see two age-accelerating things going on.
First, setting up a momentum cycle has the opposite effect than what is intended. The idea is to increasingly challenge your muscles, not to lessen the challenge by embracing momentum. Anybody who knows what they are doing also knows that you do not if you’re using momentum.
Second, this wild ride is fucking up your joints. Your response might be to scoff because, hey, you feel fine! You will only realize it once the damage is done, and then it will be too late. There is no repairing joint damage.
As the TrumpVirus decimates America, many gyms such as those in California have had to close their doors once again.
Like some unimaginable plot out of a 1970s disaster movie, the US Government has not as yet formulated any plan of action whatsoever - no leadership, no concern at all, as to how to deal with the epidemic on a national level - 5 months into it! This is why the US has the highest infection rates in the world.
We have been left by our so-called “leaders” to navigate this tragedy alone without aid of any guidance system. We have been left on our own to decide what’s safe for us and for those family members we come in contact with while the manchild in the White House mocks and denigrates medical professionals.
I still have some concerns about going to the gym, but I go regardless - in part to keep sane during this maddening epidemic of anti-masker, anti-vax, anti-science insanity.
To their credit, the owners - and the members - of BJ Penn Gym in Hilo where I work out have been commendable. Hawaii’s culture calls for cooperation for mutual benefit as exemplified in “ohana,” or family. Ohanais your chosen family, including but extending well beyond the boundaries of blood family - meaning that one’s loyalties and connections transcend biological bloodlines to include the whole community.
At BJ Penn they have removed some of my favorite machines to create distance. I can live with that. The bathrooms, showers and drinking fountains are also closed. A spray bottle is at every machine with members required to wipe down the equipment after use. NOBODY whines like little bitches about these precautions or about having to wear a mask at all times. No one lowers themselves to challenge such common-sense rules meant to protect everyone by hysterically screaming "freedom!" I’ve read how some US gyms allow members to remove the mask while actively exercising, which is so foolish that it defies both humanity and logic - breathing heavily and gasping obviously spreads viruses faster and farther.
If you are “trying to keep the peace” with your so-called anti-masker “friends” and “loved ones” who are demanding their "freedom" to infect and possibly kill you, as well as those in your ohana who are at highest risk, then you are more unhinged even than the Karens and Kens you don’t have the balls to confront or ghost. Shut them down one way or the other. Allow the basic instinct to remain healthy and alive to transcend societal pressure to maintain “respectful” relationships with these low-IQ despots you have yet to delete from your life. Call the owners of businesses you patronize who do not enforce the mask mandate and tell them you will not set foot in their establishment until every single person who enters their doors is compelled to wear a mask. This most especially applies to gyms.
Gyms are reopening, as are churches, bars and more, but the majority of people polled say they are not ready. One old man I watched on the news said “No politician can decide when it’s safe for us to re-socialize - only we get to do that.” That’s how most people seem to feel.
I live on Hawaii Island, where there are zero Covid 19 cases. None. People here have been very cooperative with the various mask-wearing, hand-washing, social distancing regimens, which I am sure is the reason for the lack of corona virus spread.
My gym has been open for two weeks now, and every day I think this will be the day I will venture over there to see what’s what. One problem for me is my gym’s shortened hours. Pre-epidemic I went to the gym between 9 and 10 p.m. because there were so few people who worked out at that hour, allowing me free access to weights and benches coveted by so many others at earlier hours. Now the gym closes at 10 p.m. rather than midnight, and with the pent-up demand I assume the place will be crowded.
For decades before the pandemic I took precautions at the gym most others did not. I always wore workout gloves. I never touched my face with bare hands. I washed my hands vigorously before leaving the gym. I always covered the bench surfaces with a clean towel. Most people did none of those things. For 15 years I never had a cold or the flu or was ill in any way except for one 3-day sniffle in 2007. I attributed my good health to careful gym hygiene.
Another issue recently has been working out in the park with a mask on made heavy breathing hot and unpleasant. At the gym I work out much harder than that, so I’m assuming my normal gym workoutwill prove challenging.
However, the only way to know is to go, so I will post my experience when I finally bite the bullet.
It’s true that we don’t know what we don’t know until we know it. That’s why I can, in a manner of speaking, “see” how people who have never been through an epidemic before might hold certain ignorant views. But rejecting wholesale the experience of others who’ve been through epidemics previously is just downright stupid.
Those pathetic man-children at Michigan’s Capitol Building recently showing up with AK47s? What the fuck? What do guns have to do with Covid19? Nothing.
And unhinged maskless crowds taking to the streets demanding that the economy “open back up”? What these protesting fools are in reality demanding is that the owners of places of recreation they themselves patronize—namely gyms, stores, restaurants and sports venues— compel their vulnerable employees to return to work at an unlivable wage and put themselves and their families at risk so as to service the profoundly selfish, bored and restless sadlings who after 6 weeks of staying inside are so abjectly lacking in any genuine life purpose that they are losing their tiny minds. “The Greatest Generation” they are not, and never will be.
For 15 FUCKING YEARS gay men hunkered down, social distanced, lost their businesses, STOPPED HAVING SEX, and buried in many cases HUNDREDS of their best friends, customers, doctors, nurses, EMTs, neighbors, service people and beloved life partners while the government LITERALLY LAUGHED at the AIDS EPIDEMIC. (watch the video below for the Reagan Administration’s jaw-dropping hilarious “response”)
When it was made clear by our own US Government that they had no intention of providing any emergent response to the AIDS epidemic, even after thousands had already died—in direct contradiction to that same government’s LUNATIC frantic emergency response to fighting Legionaire’s Disease after only 12 people had died—gay doctors, gay scientists, gay politicians, and gay and gay-friendly celebrities rallied and stepped up to do it all themselves.
As of 2020 there is no cure for AIDS, but gay men still must do what needs to be done EVERY SINGLE DAY. Gays who are HIV-negative take a prescription drug DAILY called PREP to prevent acquiring AIDS. Those who are HIV-positive take a prescription drug DAILY called TRUVADA to manage the disease and keep from spreading it to others, but most significantly, to keep themselves from getting sick and dying. Blood must be drawn and tested every few months. Habits or activities that compromise the immune system are voluntarily curtailed.
Gays know what transmits AIDS and how to prevent its spreading—and adhere to the guidelines, just like everyone today knows what transmits Covid19 and how to prevent its spreading, but instead rebel against the guidelines.
Our leading political crybabies who have proven to possess no understanding at all regarding contagion, are proposing that the lives of people (other than themselves), especially older people, are expendable. And if they themselves happen to infect others because of their refusal to wear a mask or gloves because such preventive measures impinge on their “personal freedom,” then that’s just how the cookie crumbles, right? And just like “straight” people once believed that they wouldn’t get AIDS because they weren’t gay, and then were proven literally dead wrong about that, younger people today absurdly believe they won’t get Covid19—or spread it to others—because they’re “healthy” and because, you know, only old people get it, bro’.
President Reagan and his White House gang thought the AIDS epidemic was hilarious: just listen.
We hear it from the formerly obese, from ex-smokers, recovering alcoholics and drug addicts. We hear it from people describing their past romantic liaisons or relationships with toxic relatives or friends, now blessedly left behind.
When we stop doing the things that are hurting us, our lives only get better.
Only when we’re out of a bad situation—the one we elected to stay in for reasons that make no sense anymore—will we be ready to admit how bad things were, how poorly we felt, how compromised our situation and safety were. When we were in the middle of it, we were in denial of just how bad things were.
Non-smokers like me who literally gag on the stinking secondhand fumes that those who arrogantly claim they have the right to expel their poison excrement into my and everyone else’s breathing air, cannot comprehend how anyone would intentionally choose to continuously suck in acrid toxins and searing heat, tar and smoke hour after hour, day after day. Even long after they quit, many ex-smokers whose lives, relationships and health they admit have greatly improved due to their stopping, contrarily speak of their past grotesque habit in ecstatic tones. Such is the stuff of addiction.
My mother broke her leg when she was in her 70s. She had made excuses all her life for never exercising but when faced with either going through rehab or being confined to a wheelchair for the rest of her life, she chose rehab. And she loved it. She talked of all the benefits this new pastime was bestowing upon her, the new friends, how great she felt, how much weight she lost, how much more physically strong she was, how her stamina and breathing had improved. Then, once her rehab was completed, she stopped, dropped the gym like a bad habit, despite my reminding her of all her stated benefits. She slipped back into all the old deficits she claimed to have left behind.
His entire career is based on little more than his physical attractiveness. He garnered enormous publicity in recent years over his enviable level of fitness. These factors have earned him millions and millions of dollars. Now he wants us to believe that remaining in the top shape that got him all this is stupid.
Zac Efron is as tone deaf as they come, and that’s saying a lot, considering he lives the Hollywood Life. There are literally millions of men around the world who have achieved and manage to maintain an extraordinary level of physical strength and beauty each and every day who are NOT movie stars raking in the millions. They do it because its admirable, because reaching a certain level of excellence is what they believe they deserve and are willing to put in the work despite having little or no money, fame, visibility, or legions of swooning fans.
Looking quite bloated these days and obviously wanting to justify his falling off the wagon, Efron has taken the low road. Rather than confessing he’s hit a rough patch and is experiencing personal problems, he dismisses the obvious rewards, of which there are many in his case, of maintaining the machine that earns him his millions, and in the process puts down everyone else who despite their anonymity, financial struggles, and the many obstacles in their personal lives continue to maintain, by claiming that it’s “stupid.”
We see right through you, Little Buddy. But before you go shooting your mouth off next time you find yourself in crisis mode, dial up an appointment with your shrink first. Because none of us non-multi-millionaires are getting paid to stay in shape. We simply do it out of self respect.
We all subscribe to various services that many will now find it difficult to continue with, such a health club, cable, extra data, monthly box deliveries of things like steaks or seafood, children’s or pets’ toys or clothing, and much more.
I subscribe to Adobe Creative Cloud which provides Photoshop, Adobe Acrobat Pro and more, but in a bind, because there are free alternatives — perhaps not as good but that can get the job done — I decided to check Adobe off my list. But I thought beforehand to contact them first as I continually receive “special offers” from Adobe that only apply to their NEW subscribers, leaving loyal years-long subscribers like me with no special pricing or rewards. Surprise: Adobe gave me the next 3 months for free, a savings of US$165.
Contact customer service on their website, or over the phone. Following are my suggestions for dealing with such companies and providers:
— Be polite. Stay calm. Choose your words carefully. Don’t criticize the company, but rather stress your financial situation.
— If you’ve always or “mostly” paid your bill on time in the past, stress this crucial point. If not, don’t mention it.
— Stress the loyalty angle - especially if there are competing companies offering the same or similar services. “I’ve been a loyal customer of yours for XX years…”
— Be forthright about your current economic situation, stressing that you can no longer afford the current price of the service.
— If you know this service offers a reduced rate for new subscribers, as Spectrum, Adobe and many others do, ask for that same introductory rate, or other accommodation. “If you can afford to give a reduced rate to new customers for an entire year, I’d like you to consider accommodating your loyal customers in the same way who now find themselves in a real financial bind.”
Even back when things were more or less normal, we all had our own negative issues that we couldn’t control, such as a thankless job, relationship problems, money problems, etc. The list is long for most of us because in truth we can’t control people, and people, directly or indirectly, are at the heart of all our issues.
That’s where fitness and bodybuilding come to the rescue. We get to control if and when we work out. We control the exercises we choose to perform to attain the goal we alone have set. Nobody else has any say or control over our workout or the goals that we set for ourselves, or our diet choices, or how many times a day or week we work out. And most people can immediately see results via a pump, as well and feel results the next day.
Now more than ever it’s vital for both physical and emotional reasons that we seize control wherever we can. YouTube is full of effective home workouts using minimal equipment such as the above video from AthleneX.
We’ve all heard the wise men lecture us that we need to do a specific number of reps in order for the exercise to be productive.
Except for a handful of fitness trainers who I follow on YouTube, nobody seems to understand that FEELING each rep completely overrides any arbitrary number of reps, be it 8, 10 or more.
Focusing complete attention on the muscle being worked, called the target muscle, is what builds and strengthens that muscle, not pumping out a preordained number at the cost of proper form.
Long ago I was impressed by something the great Bob Paris said about someone criticizing him (who in their right mind would criticize Bob Paris?) because, at his Mr. Olympia size, he was doing barbell curls with a “measly” 60 lb. weight. His reply, which I paraphrase here, was “If I can make a 60 lb. barbell feel like 120, who’s going to break the news to my biceps?”
I’m sure the critic didn’t have a clue about what he meant. Paris was performing deliberate, slow reps without any cheat—no rocking back and forth, no using momentum, fully extending the target muscle and flexing/squeezing fully at the top of each rep.
Next workout, try to slow down and totally concentrate, making the target muscle do 100% of the work with no cheating, no momentum, no rocking back and forth, or using other tricks to convince yourself into thinking you’re accomplishing a productive workout.
After all, there’s nobody around anymore to try and impress these days. Make the most of that.
For decades I’ve stated that working out keeps me sane. That’s not entirely an exaggeration.
Like most creatives —I’m a writer, a photographer, a fine artist as well as graphic artist— I freelance in most cases, and at various times in my experience work opportunities have more or less dried up, leaving me worried. I might have been worrying when I walked into the gym back then, but soon after, and for hours following my leaving the gym, much if not most worry evaporated because, “workout.”
Working out clears your mind. Working out is a great way to get out of your own head, but even more immediately rewarding is seeing the pump you get, the sweat glistening, and meeting the challenge of completing the workout.
I moved to a rural area in 2005 where the closest gym was an hour’s drive away. That’s when I resigned myself to working out at home 2 or 3 times a week as I could not hack every day spending 2 hours driving so as to complete a 90 minute workout. I bought a doorway chin-up bar, a pair of 20-lb. dumbbells and a $25 set of fitness bands. I scoured YouTube for videos to get ideas of how to adapt to the new (for me) dynamic of working out at home.
Because I had that skill set based on actively researching, then building a routine, I am not complaining as many gym addicts are during this crisis. I have the wherewithal to get in a good workout that approaches 90% of what I do in the gym.
I have long recommended YouTube for this but people in the past excused themselves for not having the time to wade through a lot of videos. The majority now do indeed have the time. If you don’t know where to start, go to Google and search “best home workout videos Youtube” “best fitness band workout videos Youtube” and similar such phrases to get a running start.
One aspect of human behavior that has been brought to light by the lockdown is ignorance concerning how exactly contagion works. Another is people complaining about empty gyms being closed down while crowded supermarkets are not. Hey, people—We need to shop for food, but we don’t needto go to the gym.
Because they have not to date developed symptoms, some sanctimonious people I know are now expressing vindication over their friends’ and families’ previously warning them or lecturing them for going out to bars, parties and such even as headlines screamed that public gathering places were being ordered to shut down.
To hear these people—weeks after many of us changed our behaviors due to being inundated with the undeniable realities of the pandemic—as seen on TV, online, in the newspapers, on the street—now try and claim they had “no idea” or “if we realized what was going on we would have taken precautions sooner,” as many at this very late date are attempting to rationalize, reveals everything we need to know about them.
Acquiring the virus on our hands, then touching other people or door handles or shopping carts would have caused us to transfer the virus. If we soon after washed our hands or refrained from touching our food or putting our fingers in our mouths, we might not have ingested the virus and therefore not gotten sick. But that doesn’t mean those people or items we went on to touch were not infected by us, that we did not sicken others.
I continue to see and read about the irresponsible and simple-minded rejecting facts as delivered by medical professionals and scientists in favor of the ludicrous rantings of political figures. I’ll be kind here and assume they are so terrified of the reality of what is happening that they find solace in denial, in the the stupid and the irresponsible.
As everyone in the fitness/bodybuilding world knows, illness can, and will, totally sideline your workout routine.
One obvious absurdity we have all seen is the guy in the gym bathroom who takes a shit, then goes back to using the equipment without washing his hands.
But we are surrounded all the time by dirty people who get deeply offended when their disgusting cleanliness standards are pointed out to them. There are hundreds of examples, from e-coli swarms deposited by dirty people onto fast food stores’ touch screens, to women’s preposterous natural fingernail length and artificial extensions and manicure “art.” If you know a female with ridiculous fingernails, or worse you’re intimately involved with one, ask her this question: “How on earth do you wipe your ass?” Picture it.
Obesity isn’t the only stupid way that people have of willingly adopting a volunteer physical disability. The long fingernail obsession is another, sacrificing the full use of one’s hands to accomplish everyday tasks. And here we thought ancient China’s foot-binding ritual was absurd. Who wouldintentionally compromise their own physical ability on purpose? LOTS of people, actually.
For the sake of your health, become more aware of all the socially acceptable ways that we allow illness and disease to spread, especially via “fashion.”
This magazine's "fitness director" somehow thought it useful to formulate a home workout using...found objects? For whom exactly? ANYONE who is at all fitness/exercise savvy knows how to perform bodyweight exercises, and owns some sort of equipment such as a pair of dumbbells or fitness bands. Others, people who never exercise anyway, are not at all served by this clownish "routine" that calls for using a gym bag or water bottle as resistance. This is typical of bullshit filler that websites desperate for new ideas employ in order to appear relevant. There are literally hundreds of FREE home workout videos of every sort pertaining to every fitness level available to everyone on YouTube right now. Just search YouTube with the phrase "home workout."
Correction: a previous version of this post misidentified the magazine in question as Esquire.
At Mens Journal magazine, female writer Savacool’s reckless agenda is to spread fear among men—I'll just assume because she hates us. Too bad she’s too inept at her vocation to have bothered consulting Dr. Abraham Morgantaler, Head of Urology at Harvard Medical School via his research-based Mayo Clinic videos. She could have saved herself the shame of sham reporting based on the joke that is JAMA. But then again, she writes for a shitty rag like Mens Journal, where competence is no requirement for getting published.
Her preposterously ill-informed and incomplete fright piece warns men against testosterone therapy based on a deeply flawed and unapologetic fool-fest of yet another empty “study” in the discredited medical journal, JAMA.
JAMA, as you may recall me reporting previously, published an absurd “study” denouncing TRT (Testosterone Replacement Therapy) in 2013, claiming negative outcomes or bad side effects from TRT, that has since been debunked. Multiple medical organizations (17 in number) have petitioned JAMA to REMOVE this study from their journal and research materials to no avail. Testosterone replacement in truth has shown clinically to be of enormous BENEFIT to the majority of men, in case your own doctor is lagging in his required keeping up with all things medical—as many inexplicably and unethically are.
Equally absurdly, the debunked JAMA study based its “findings” on a sketchy algorithm, invented by the idiots themselves, who conducted that particular study, and that has since been utilized by nobody else at all. When the medical community specializing in TRT raised a ruckus over that, demanding JAMA retract the piece, JAMA refused, despite the “study” having been disproven, nor would JAMA apologize for misleading the public as it has intentionally.
Everything has risks. Crossing the street. Eating butter. Cleaning out the gutters. Popping a Tylenol. Do your own research, or better yet, allow Dr. Abraham Morgantaler, Head of Urology at Harvard Medical School, who has 40+ years experience under his belt with TRT, tell you the truth.Watch Morgantaler's 60 second video summation below, and if your interest is piqued, go on to watch Prof. Morgantaler’s other terrific informative YouTube vids regarding TRT:
In this MAYO CLINIC video, Dr. Abraham Morgantaler,
