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Androgen hormones are widely known to aid in recovery. This is nothing new.

I personally dislike these kinds of comments. The idea that androgens aid in recovery may be known in theory, but this study provides empirical evidence to support that claim. So yes, there is scientific value in it.

Perhaps. But I don't feel they're saying "in theory". They're saying we've already seen that XX and XY recover differently, and this is simply another example of something we already know.

Sure a link or two might have helped. But there is value in pointing out "no new news here" if that provides context.

Your usage of XX and XY has my interest piqued.

Does that shorthand save typing over man and woman or male and female?

Or is the goal separating phenotype from genotype and being scientifically and politically clear what the discussion is about?

It's intended to speak to the biological and not "gender".

there is no "in theory", steroids and recovery time are pretty well known, both in research, and via athletes who are, like, totally not doping

example from 1999: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9934411/

> Anabolic steroids may aid in the healing of muscle contusion injury to speed the recovery of force-generating capacity. Although anabolic steroids are considered renegade drugs, they may have an ethical clinical application to aid healing in severe muscle contusion injury, and their use in the treatment of muscle injuries warrants further research.

Well if that's the cause that's very good news, since we already know how to give people hormone therapy.

While the side-effects might at first seem dramatic, we accept far worse side-effects from, say, surgery.

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