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Why so snarky?

Those two do not contradict eachother

Probably not the best delivery, but perhaps use of anabolic steroids in bodybuilding could have a counteracting detrimental effect to the brain (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000632231...).

Do these studies control for the fact that only dumbasses take anabolic steroids? :)

What percentage of people going to the gym takes steroids ?

I don’t agree about bodybuilders being stupid, but going to the gym and being a bodybuilder are not one and the same. They just happen to occupy the same spaces.

And in bodybuilding, unless someone is specifically a natty/natural bodybuilding competitor the answer is pretty much “all of them have been on gear at some point in time”. For other gym-goers, the answer is, nobody knows unless they tell you and since steroids are very illegal, people don’t tend to shout it from the rooftops.

In the US, between 15% - 30% according to https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1484557/

I would guess this number is higher today

If testerone counts then probably. Feels like everyone wants to be on trt in my hobby circle (bjj)

There’s this remarkably stupid stereotype that muscles equates to stupidity. If you look at some of the champions, they all have degrees in fields like Accounting (Ronnie Coleman, Phil Heath) or Chemistry (Frank Zane). Schwarzenegger famously did business school at night while a bodybuilder.

It's a lazy and dated stereotype. I know a lot of very intelligent people who spend a great deal of time lifting heavy things.

In fact, there's a joke around our campus that the engineering school needs its own fitness center due to the overall buffness of the students.

It’s almost like people are different, right? lol

In my experience, a lot of really fit engineers see it as another optimization problem, which is an interesting way to look at working out.

I’ve been trying to adopt that mindset.

Careful, you'll get scorn from those who think you should be spending that time doing leetcode. How could you be any good at your job when you're flexing and sweating all the time?

Grit is grit. If you can do one you can probably do the other.

I'm doing wavelet transforms while riding the bike trainer, what did you do with your morning??!

Can call it the "character creation points limit fallacy".

Perhaps building/having neurons and utlizing nerurons are two different things?

You can have a very good gaming pc but if you are only using it to play solitaire then you are under utilizing the capacity/power.

I am not a neuro expert so take this with a grain of salt.

Dolph Lundgren, for example.

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