Testosterone: The New Synthetic Oil

[goliath1812]

But back to Low T....there are advertisements for Cialis, multiple statins, blood pressure, insulin, dysrythmia meds.....that's become the American way, if something is different, take medicine. Many times problems can be fixed by diet and exercise, or even diet alone, but that's not what people want to hear. They want to stay the same and take a drug to mask the problem. If it's OK for all the other drugs to be advertised, why should Testosterone (or AndroGel, or whatever else they want to use) be any different?

[nookandcrannycar]

Originally Posted by goliath1812

But back to Low T....there are advertisements for Cialis, multiple statins, blood pressure, insulin, dysrythmia meds.....that's become the American way, if something is different, take medicine. Many times problems can be fixed by diet and exercise, or even diet alone, but that's not what people want to hear. They want to stay the same and take a drug to mask the problem. If it's OK for all the other drugs to be advertised, why should Testosterone (or AndroGel, or whatever else they want to use) be any different?

I think the promotion is actually kind of humorous. Unfortunately, what you write about 'the American way' is too often the case. I originally got cellulitis when my leg was taking way too long to heal after an operation where I had 8 pieces of steel/aluminum/whatever it is put in my leg after a fall (tripping in the dark) on my own property in California in the late 1990s. The operation was after being rushed to the hospital after the fall (medical science is amazing, as my walk/gait/etc is as it was before the fall). The problem was with an infection, not what they did orthopedically. The doctor approved me (in a medical sense) to go to Europe for a friend's Med School graduation, but when I returned, I was in worse condition. The doctor put me in the hospital. After 4 days my 'team' said 'we can tell you this now (that you've 'turned the corner')....if you hadn't 'turned the corner', you might have lost your leg or died. I was told that one of the best things that had (and continued to be) in my favor was that I didn't have any tolerance built up to any drugs (no prescriptions, and I live a clean life). That was 15 years ago, and that 'revelation' has stayed in the forefront of my consciousness ever since.....taking every avenue I can (good nutrition, etc) to keep that 'fighting profile' (for lack of a better term) so that, when I get cellulitis, I have the best chance of the antibiotics being effective......so I am the opposite of what you mention about that part of 'the American way', but I often see what you mention in others. I think many people don't realize how helpful even a few proactive steps can be re their health.