@CTStan, please write my chest measurement as 38, height 69 and, if there are any runners in the bunch, 18 seconds in the hundred yard dash.
Thanks for taking on this role. Very helpful, sir.
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It seems there are no benefits on cardiovascular risk by walking 10.000 steps daily that you can’t get walking 7.000.
This cohort study found that among Black and White men and women in middle adulthood, participants who took approximately 7000 steps/d or more experienced lower mortality rates compared with participants taking fewer than 7000 steps/d. There was no association of step intensity with mortality.
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Got your results back yet?
I expect to get results back in the next 1 to 3 days. I only tested for total testosterone and free testosterone.
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If I only was given a wish, that would be to make bodybuilding for woman illegal hahaa. I rarely find a sight or something more off-putting than that of a female bodybuilder. 
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I agree. The look is a kind of contrary to being feminine. But the article is about possibility of growing muscles on a vegan diet. I didn’t expect that it’s possible.
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Yes I read and knew the intended reference of the link but couldn’t help hahaa
It would be interesting to see how she looks at age 60+. Will she still have all those muscles and if it would age her (appearance) prematurely? I bet she won’t look younger but rather older than her age. Her mTOR now is speeding downhill with extreme speed. Where will it bring her?
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FWIW, there is evidence that decline in aspects of the nervous system is part of sarcopenia. It’s not only about muscle mass.
we suggest that compromised nervous system function may be one of the important contributors to the sarcopenia. From the generation of neural signal to making a muscle contraction, there are a lot of age-associated changes in nervous system which may affect motor performance, muscle strength and muscle mass.
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I think all of this relates to certain proteins not being produced in sufficient quantities and hence the systems that depend on those proteins going wrong,
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I know this is an older post but you took the wrong blood test. You need DHEA-S, not unconjugated.
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Yes, most brain CT scans of the elderly would show some degree of atrophy.
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Another factor here, as I understand it, is the loss of nerve connections to motor units. As nerve connections to muscle fibers are lost (die?) the disconnected muscle fiber become unusable or gets picked up by another nerve connection. Over time, the muscles are controlled by fewer nerves, so less fidelity or fine tuning is possible. And as some muscle fibers are no longer usable, overall strength can be lost.
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Any update? I’m actually curious after reading how you addressed the issue.
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Thanks. A good quick read.
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Both T and free T increased to the low normal range. Now I am going to increase my dosage and test again after 30 days. I have felt nothing that I can discern. No side effects, etc.
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Well that’s awesome! Congrats. Feels good when our hypotheses pan out doesn’t it