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They're being told at 40 they have "low T" compared to a fucking 20 year old...
Which, yeah, no shit.
What's really bad is by that point the hormone that causes male pattern baldness is also essentially turbocharging what you have to compensate, like making crack out of cocaine.
So a 40 year old male pattern baldness juicing their T to the level of a 20 year old has an effective level much higher.
Even without that, the T just makes you feel 20, you've still got 20 years of accumulated damage, you just don't feel it. Not just the muscularskeletal system, but other stuff like cardiac health as well.
People just can't handle the fact that they're not 20 anymore, in the context of midlife crisis, of course a lot of men will convince themselves this makes them 20 again. The problem is our health care system giving it out like candy to make a profit.
A lot of the pleasurable (motivating) aspects of being younger (confidence, lots of energy, high sex drive etc) can also be chalked up to inexperience. You have ideas and expectations that get proven wrong. You hook up with hot girls who turn out to be a massive PITA. You work really hard at some things that don't amount to much.
Once you've been an adult for a decade or two, and actually experienced more of the things that motivated you as a kid, you become a lot more discerning about them and picky about what you apply yourself to. It doesn't look 'cool' but that's knowledge and wisdom.
A lot of people have no idea what's happening and rationalize hormonal changes as "I'm wiser" because they're older....
Even someone that's legitimately mature who goes on T to be at the level of a teenager, is gonna act like a teenager.
I don't think you understand how big of a deal testorone is and how much it effects someone.
Do you personally know anyone dumb enough to do this or "peptides" (basically steroids)?
Because I do, so I'm speaking from ancedotal experience as well as the academic research. You're just massively underestimating testorone.