Steroids

I'm certainly for reducing the legal barriers so those who do want to do it can get medical supervision while doing so. There may be complications involved. Numero uno you're never sure of the quality of the drugs in question when it's black market stuff. Then you have the growing breast tissue, shrinking nads, skin issues, male pattern baldness, then the comedown as your body tries to adjust. Never mind localised infections in the the injections sites and a danger of liver problems.

As for the morality of using such enhancements? I'd have no real issue with that in small doses anyway. We take all sorts of drugs to "enhance" our lives in some way or another. I mean necking an aspirin when you have a headache while a mile away from anabolics is an enhancement of your life. I'd certainly be OK with people trying to keep a more youthful balance of hormones going as they age. Men's testosterone drops as they hit middle age, sometimes quite radically. Even what's considered within normal range for a 50 year old man is a helluva lot less than the levels in the same man at 20*. Human growth hormone the same.





*interesting one there; men who live with reproductive age women show a noticeably bigger drop in testosterone than men who are single. It seems nature selects for reducing the hormone in a stable couple for some reason. It used to be thought that test and extra test increased aggression, it seems this is not the case, or it's much more complex than that. At least in men with natural levels of the stuff. Higher test men are generally less aggressive

Bloody good points all LG, though the study I referenced just looked at long term childless couples, presumably as a way to eliminate that variable> I'll try and dig through my pile of shíte and find it for you. It was interesting(well to me as a rank amateur anyway :)) There may be selection bias where it comes to the ladies involved too. That old and well researched saw that women will select men with high test features when ovulating, but will select for low test features the rest of the time(but especially when pregnant) may throw some oddness into the mix. The ubiquity of the hormonal contraceptive pill/implant/etc would also introduce some bias too it seems.

EDIT plus even if environmental pressures are involved such as lack sleep etc, those pressures have been around for a very long time in many, if not all cultures, so the original finding is still somewhat valid. It's conclusions are well up in the air like you say though.