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That is fascinating, so that is only slightly higher than the UK, as a requirement to receive a prescription! I would have expected Russia to be a far more male-positive place, where you can potentially get testosterone quite easily. In my opinion a man should be able to choose what testosterone level he wants to be, I wondered if it was potentially just freely available.

What makes this quite strange is that we live in a time, at least in the Western world, where testosterone has decreased over the past few decades. Men are now less than half the testosterone level that quite recent past generations were, yet we define historically LOW levels as "normal". I get why we do that here in the UK, the UK is left wing and has lots of people that see testosterone as a "nazi" thing. Men like Richard Moore, are the types who mock high testosterone men as "macho" and often attack them with radical feminist propaganda such as the view that their penises are small and they are "compensating", or that they are secretly a repressed homosexual Republican governor. These nasty attacks stopped a lot of action that could have been taken by several demographics of men within the state and within our health service, to increase testosterone so that our average levels are the way they were in generations past. The men in the UK who normalized testosterone came from subcultures like bodybuilding, boxing, and prison, that were never around people like Richard Moore. There is subsequently quite a large demographic of men who support testosterone, which is very fortunate as people who are adjacent to the state and the health service are often very negative, and you won't get anything from them. Because of those male positive demographics, steroids are actually relatively available, though I have no personal experience with that.

I thought the situation would have been different in Russia, as you are not as left wing or radical feminist. Can anyone answer why your health service seems to be in line with the NHS about this important matter? Soon, when technologies designed to detect illegal drugs at borders are advanced, a consequence will also be the detection of steroids. It will be harder and harder for people to get them, so the NHS's absurd requirements to be 10nmol/l / 290ng/dl before you can get anything, will become more and more extreme and a matter of political importance.

>>156

>What makes this quite strange is that we live in a time, at least in the Western world, where testosterone has decreased over the past few decades.

Interesting fact, but there's no way to verify it, and you can see why. If only because no one probably measured your testosterone or your friends' testosterone intentionally for this study. This study involved a limited sample of men, from 100 to 1000 at most, This is the specificity of work of private “research agencies” existing on grants from the state or NPOs. I don't know how things are in the western world, in Russia it is illegal to share information about patients, including testosterone levels. Check your source for credibility again, maybe in Britain or any other western country you can't pass on patient's tests either. In Russia, however, I can personally transmit my tests to someone else at my discretion, retrieving them from the medical database via the official smartphone app EMIAS.INFO. It's my personalized electronic medical record. However, the transmission of this information is not secure.

I think that given the political situation you've told me about, the claim that the western world has low testosterone may be pro-propaganda or politically motivated. I doubt that being in the western world can defeat evolution and change a man's hormonal function.

>I thought the situation would have been different in Russia, as you are not as left wing or radical feminist.

Russia had a strong feminist movement and developed radical feminism in the mid-2010s. It was destroyed by the introduction of neural tools in the social network VK (a very popular social network in the Russian-speaking space, much more popular than Facebook or other). The system removed hate speech - blocking groups that promoted ideology and users who called for extermination based on gender or race, and it worked so well that it recognized veiled messages.
Artificial intelligence has practically destroyed radical feminism in Russia. Because feminists were mostly active on the Internet, in VK, sharing their ideology and building it up like a snowball. None of them ever gathered for big marches and demonstrations.
By the way, along with feminists, the “men's movement” and ardent pro-male radical groups using hate speech against women were destroyed.

There are still groups in VK created by feminists for feminists, but they are all very “light”, about books and self-education.

As for testosterone, in excess it is a very dangerous substance and should never be used for any reason. Testosterone has a significant impact on the hormonal balance. Improper use can lead to side effects such as cardiovascular problems, liver dysfunction, mood changes and aggressiveness (there may be problems with the law, or depletion of the nervous system). Without a doctor's supervision, testosterone use can aggravate comorbidities and lead to endocrine imbalances. Testosterone should not be taken lightly. There are good reasons why its use is limited.