Quote: (08-15-2013 02:22 PM)MikeCF Wrote:
I have no interest in taking advice on how to boost testosterone from someone who obviously has low testosterone:
I got no hate for skinny and geeky guys.
But if that's how you look, you don't get to be an authority on testosterone.
It's all about staying in your lane.
Practice what you preach.
Now if a man is in his late 60s/70s and looks like this, then I am all ears.
Mike:
I know the top image is Mercola. I haven't seen Mercola with his shirt off, so I would not know how his physique looks but I will give it to you that he does look kind of skinny and geeky in that picture.
I don't know who is the muscular guy in the other picture (and probably, i should b/c it seems that i have seen that picture somewhre before). The muscular guy looks like he is in his eighties with a body of an in good shape 35 year old. If i knew who he is I could look him up and read his story to see how supplementing with testosterone may have played into his overall physique and/or health. BTW, my understanding is that steroids may make someone look real good on the outside, too, but that looking good on the outside would not necessarily be determinative of overall health, and sometimes we cannot tell the health condition of a person, exactly, from outward appearance.
RudeB: it is good to hear your personal experience, and when you say you only take the testosterone twice a year, is that only two doses or two periods of time that you take it?
BTW, Mike, are you saying that you are not going to read, at all, anything that Mercola has to write, possibly in part based on how he looks? Mercola has a lot of good ideas and science to support it and a lot of the points made on this thread in terms of ways to naturally improve your testosterone production and even the two articles that i linked above are good examples of a lot of good ideas that Mercola has. I would feel better making an argument about various ideas rather than the person.. b/c arguing about people may lead us to just arguing without real substance. Certainly, personal testimonies can be helpful regarding this.
Also, I have nothing against beautiful people; however, I have found that sometimes beautiful people talk a lot of nonsense about something that they believe is universally applicable to others b/c it worked for them and their genetics - even though likely it would not work for others, so even if Mercola does not look the greatest, he still has a lot of good ideas. I am not opposed to seeing what beautiful people have to say, as well.