>>14112912Anon, I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but testosterone is what's degenerating your body right now. Increasing it will only make things worse, like pouring gasoline on a fire. This is the number one reason why women outlive men, and live much healthier in their later years.
I remember when pain just seemed like something I could deal with. You just don't understand, at least not yet. It's not the same as something that hurts for a few days and then you get over it. Pain that literally never goes away is different. It wears on you, body and soul, wears you down like water dripping on a rock. It's not about the pain. It's knowing that it's been this way for years and knowing THIS WILL NEVER GET BETTER. It's only going to get worse, and worse, and worse. Like you just found out your teeth have cavities and there are no dentists anywhere in the world.
Maybe you haven't yet realized that you're taking longer to get over minor sickness. Maybe you haven't noticed that cuts take longer to heal. Maybe you haven't noticed that you when you push yourself you're winded for longer and don't recover to 100% by the next day. Maybe you haven't yet noticed your vision getting weaker because it only happens in very low light. Maybe you haven't noticed your hearing diminishing because it's only very high-pitched sounds right now.
This thread wasn't about being able to bench press slightly more at 35 than at 30; it was about when human beings "peak", and that's an average of all physical capability, not just a single number you can look at to feel better about yourself. Yeah, I'm sure if they dedicated a lot of time and effort to it, a 60-year-old could be demonstrably stronger in some extremely specific capacity than they were twenty years before. Especially if, back then, they didn't put in any effort at all.
That doesn't change the reality. Your body is in decline, and while the line may waver up and down a little bit, on average it's only going down from here.
