>>Over time, a man's body produces less and less testosterone. Working out offsets this somewhat, **but is it ever okay to start testosterone/steroids in order to have the gains be more meaningful?** I guess you should try and see how that works for you, small quantity, excess is always bad and with drugs, the lesser the better What you add to your body is what your body will no longer add by itself; in the case of heroin or alcohol for instance, it's your endomorphin levels (pain killers) that you're cheating with, your body gets used to get its daily dose from the outside, so it no longer produces what it used to need, so once you stop providing, you're left in the cold, it's withdrawal time, you feel everything you shouldn't feel, every single little bit of pain, gas travelling in your guts for instance, stuffs like that, that's why you see junkies holding their stomach during withdrawal So there's that, not sure how that works with testosterone but I'm pretty sure you can expect a similar side effect eventually, which ultimately is only a problem when you run out of product