> I hope your shoulder gets better soon brother. Appreciate it brother! It should be good by tomorrow or the next. I might make an appt with my local (White, gigabased) chiropractor if it doesn't fix itself in the next couple of days. > Just be aware that he is a gatekeeper. I don't respect people that get big from gear then tell their audience things that will keep them small especially with dosing levels. A lot of info on his website will be better and you'll have to read it which is nice if you dislike his voice. Almost all things dealing with gear will be anecdotal other than trt so the best way to go about it would be to research things heavily. Here is a decent board for gear related anecdotes. https://brotherhoodofpain.com/forum135/ I definitely take what he says with a grain of salt. I mean, for one thing he got big and is still on TRT so it's not like his advice to never use gear is actually relevant in that respect. I imagine a lot of it is to prevent his younger audience from hopping on before their physiological levels are lower anyway. A lot of shit he says is to remain on Jootube which makes sense given it's his livelihood right now. I don't take his "don't do it kids" stuff seriously. After all, I'm nearly 40 now and most of the warnings he gives about it don't really apply at this age anyway. > That is a great thing to be weary about. There is so much distrust in the medical industry and the general public has been lied to for so long concerning benefits of test. Usually a clinic will not take you above 1200 test levels which is good for some but some want more. The clinic if worth its salt should also teach you how to listen to your body to know how other hormones are being affected, and can provide info to get all hormones at levels that will make you feel best. Of the two of us I'm definitely the more contemptuous of the medical establishment. It's kind of a cover-your-ass thing for her. I imagine I will be pretty happy with a 1200 at first anyway. I've been lifting for a while, though probably not as consistent as I could be, but the struggle is real for me in terms of results. I got a blood test (not comprehensive) from the fertility doc before we had our boy and it was pretty bad (250 ng/dl total T, they didn't test free T unfortunately) even though all my other fertility metrics were absolutely insane, 10x the reference range of sperm count and motility. I 100% know the symptoms I have are low T, poor sleep quality blah blah all the normal problems. > I have never had problems with face acne since test will help tighten your face though some experience water retention and facial bloat for a few weeks when first getting on. I do have horrible bacne when I have to stop trt for whatever reason. If it is extremely bad, Accutane is a lifesaver. For hair issues, I suggest small dose finasteride (.5mg daily), derma rolling/pinning, and minoxidil ($16 for 6 month supply at Sam's club. Be aware minox is extremely poisonous to cats. I actually worked at a hair clinic that formulated their own 15% (Rogaine and the like is 5%) minoxidil and prescribed finasteride (then "Propecia") for quite a few years so I have a leg up in understanding some of the hair issues. I think a small dose finasteride will keep me from shedding heavily and progressing much on the Norwood scale. I will probably start with that and not use minoxidil since it has a deleterious effect on the hair you gain if you don't keep doing it. My hair isn't *terrible* overall on exogenous hormones I expect that will be enough. As far as the acne I don't actually have any issues with face acne, it's just bacne and "glute"-acne that I have right now. Last year I tried 4-andro/1-andro base and MENT/trestolone and I found that it actually cleared it up so I suspect the bacne and stuff is due to not enough test rather than being caused by it. > Test itself does not affect my hairline, but masterone and winstrol rape my hairline extremely quickly. There is no way to know which compounds will affect you till you try them. > I can always answer any questions you may have regarding this. I am 36 and been on test for 8 years. I will say I'm pretty deep into the research already, MPMD has some good content even though he's a gatekeeper, I do enjoy some of his in-depth content about endocrinology. Also his Gorilla Mode pre-workout is quite good in my experience. Awesome I appreciate it brother, it's nice to know there are some NatSoc guys doing this stuff because if you only ever looked at Reddit's r/steroids you'd think every single person supplementing is a faggot leftist who loves trannies lmao. IMO all of /ourguys/ should be blasting. Off topic about your swasi tatt, I am curious: Does it affect things a lot for you? Do you have to hide it at swimming pools and shit? My current goal in life is to become so financially independent that I can openly promote NatSoc ideology without repercussions to my wife and child.