> For instance, testosterone therapy often carries risks. Supplementing the hormone signals the body to shut down production of its own supply, which can shrink the testicles and suppress sperm. Some researchers have even studied testosterone for its contraceptive effects.

> Moreover, because testosterone revs up oil glands and hair follicles – and partly converts them to estrogen – it can also bring about acne, balding and even some breast tissue growth.

You gotta love ironic consequences.

It turns out that all you need to do to become stronger and more "manly" is to exercise, sleep well, and maintain a nutritious diet.

Men who try to shortcut all that by taking extra T may find themselves enhancing the very physical traits that they're seeking to avoid.

> all you need to do to become stronger and more "manly" is to exercise, sleep well, and maintain a nutritious diet.

One also needs to be handy, humble, kind to and protective of the weak, trustworthy and able to keep your word, and not a coward, moral or otherwise. You know, have character.

I have “TDS” specifically because these all are lacking, so lacking it is as if by deliberate abdication, among those leading the new masculinity cult in America.

And you need the right genes to bulk up like Arnold back in the day

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