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I’ve considered this, but I’m really wary of the potential side effects, and of just being unprepared to deal with the likely changes to my personality. My vague sense is that testosterone supplements are only useful if you are totally committed to being very serious about working out, and the reality is that my lifestyle (I have a side gig several nights a week, hobbies that sometimes prevent me from going to the gym, etc) does not permit me to be as single-minded about exercise as I was for about a year and a half prior to COVID. I’d also be worried that my body would become dependent on the supplements and become unable to reliably regulate its own hormonal levels. (And I’m worried about losing my hair.)
I don't know much about it, but my understanding is the opposite - that hormones + no exercise is much better for putting on mass than no hormones and lots of exercise. At least, I saw a study to that effect one time, and it's certainly the case that male teenagers put on muscle much faster than even relatively athletic females. But please don't take my word for it.
I remember that one! The study was anabolic steroids rather than hormones, but the roided couch potatoes really did gain more muscle than the natty lifters.
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