Considering the large quantities of Viagra some people are already taking on a regular basis, shouldn't any weight loss effects in humans been noticed by now?
So we can reason right off the bat that this is an atypical use case. Glancing at experience reports on the internet, it appears pretty rare for people to exceed 100 mg doses, and even rarer for them to keep using it day after day for a week at a time. The one segment of the population we might expect to approach the level of usage tested in this study would be male porn stars. That's a group that is probably concerned more with building muscle than losing weight, so it seems unlikely that they'd be in a position to notice that particular effect.
Of course, these patients are quite unwell, aren't trying to lose weight, and if sildenafil made their condition better might have had a better appetite and eaten more, so it's hard to draw too many conclusions.
Anyone bothered to ask why they are scheduled at all?
We spend all of this time talking about elite competitive and, frequently, professional athletes using them, WHY???
Next thing you know, they're going to "schedule" websites...
WHY?
And perhaps those lunk alarm videos are to protest a series of ads in which powerlifters and bodybuilders are portrayed as narcissistic morons. Having lifted in one of the most serious gyms in London for both groups, I can say this is most certainly not an accurate depiction.
Yeah, and those aren't the people in the videos.
Even if every single lunk alarm video was as you described, it wouldn't be sufficient to paint a picture of either the bodybuilding or the strength athletics community.
I missed the part where I tried to do that. Help me out?
The videos I'm talking about are the ones where someone sets off the lunk alarm and is politely asked to take a chill pill, and responds by trying to tear the building off of its foundation.
I thought it was well known that sharp breathing can increase strength for a short amount of time. Besides, sometimes when you're doing something really exhausting, you'll grunt involuntarily...
It's aimed squarely at the cardio and Zumba crowd who feel intimidated by people putting up significant weight.
I suppose the side effects could be managed, but do you think your average gorilla juicehead with "bigorexia" is going to be smart about controlling when and how much he takes? Fuck no.
That is, I suppose, why they're illegal; they have costly side effects and cause a psychological dependency. I don't agree with banning them, but I can't say I approve of the way they're used by bodybuilders and competitors.
Obesity, Insulin-Resistance, Impotency, Diabetes, Cardiac, Auto-Immune...the list goes on!
This is not the way to approach this subject. Not all hormones act on the same receptors, not all hormones are synthetic and not all hormones aromatase.
Estrogen will induce breast and uterine cancers unless it is given with progesterone. Hardly zero side-effects. It is considered proper to only administer estrogen alone to women with severe symptoms of menopause.
For the purpose of contraception, the COCP uses low levels which inhibit further hormone release by acting on the pituitary gland; it effectively simulates the state of pregnancy. Even this has risks especially for women with coagulation disorders.
With regard to your comments about men receiving hormone supplementations: the problem here is that testosterone production doesn't actually decrease as you get older. Or at least, falling testosterone seems to be the result of, and not the cause of, age and lifestyle related changes and declines.
This result was shared with my med school class by one of the principle investigators of the 2011 study in the links; I apologise for using science daily Links as I don't have access to research journals ATM
http://www.webmd.com/healthy-aging/news/20110607/testosteron...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/06/110607121129.ht...