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Re:Why are male testosterone levels falling? by gavinray on Sunday November 13, 2022 @10:11AM (#33583709)
This is true, but if testosterone is what makes humans aggressive, wouldn't I have been ... aggressive, with 10 peoples worth in me, were that the case?

My point was to illustrate how reductionist that kind of thinking is.

It's also possible I have weird neurochemistry and am an outlier, so I didn't respond typically.

Re:Why are male testosterone levels falling? by cjbgkagh on Sunday November 13, 2022 @10:26AM (#33583855)
The response to Test isn’t linear. Many of the effects are threshold and proportion based. I think you would have got a stronger mental reaction if you also took aromatase inhibitors to keep the E2 down. But yeah as you mention you’re likely an outlier.

I don’t think anyone is claiming steroids makes everyone aggravated.

Plus there are different types of steroids with Tren being more strongly linked to aggression.

Re:Why are male testosterone levels falling? by gavinray on Sunday November 13, 2022 @10:39AM (#33583999)
I took, at various points, Tren, Deca, Mast, Anavar, Primobolan, Equipoise, Trestolone, Superdrol, Dianabol, Anadrol, Winstrol, Epistane, Halotestin, Methyltrienolone, Methylstenbolone, and an alphabet soup of various other prohormones, peptides, as well as insulin and HGH.

I treated my body like a walking science lab during my teen years.

I took AI (if you would have looked at my bloodwork, you would have seen that at 7,500 ng/dL Test my E2 was crushed below the normal reference range, I actually had LOW estradiol) but it caused more issues than it was worth.

People on the internet largely don't know what they're talking about when it comes to anabolic steroids, I discovered that the hard way.

Re:Why are male testosterone levels falling? by cjbgkagh on Sunday November 13, 2022 @10:57AM (#33584174)
That’s quite an outlier. I didn’t read your tests but I did wonder why you let E2 get that high in your msg.

My working theory is the mechanism is similar to alcohol with a lowering of inhibition. The aggregation has to be in you from the start.

Re:Why are male testosterone levels falling? by gocartStatue on Sunday November 13, 2022 @02:07PM (#33586263)
Some bodybuilders advocate not lowering e unless your boobs start to grow ;) better on the mood, joints, skin etc.
Re:Why are male testosterone levels falling? by tsol on Sunday November 13, 2022 @04:16PM (#33587411)
>This is true, but if testosterone is what makes humans aggressive, wouldn't I have been ... aggressive, with 10 peoples worth in me, were that the case?

Not necessarily. Maybe what's normal for 10 people is normal for you. Natural testosterone levels are known to vary by a huge amount

Re:Why are male testosterone levels falling? by Gibbon1 on Sunday November 13, 2022 @08:20PM (#33589199)
One of the things people generally aren't aware of is for most tissues that respond to testosterone the receptors are saturated. So your prostate at normal levels the receptors are saturated. Which means more testosterone does nothing at all.

The big exception to the above is muscles.

Interestingly body builders seem to think the culprit behind mood disturbances with steroid use is estrogen.