Women are really interested in hacking their hormone levels. Even Oprah is doing it – from the article in Newsweek:
Hacking your hormones for fun and profit!
“After one day on bioidentical estrogen, I felt the veil lift,” she wrote in O, The Oprah Magazine. “After three days, the sky was bluer, my brain was no longer fuzzy, my memory was sharper. I was literally singing and had a skip in my step.” On the show, Oprah had her own word of warning for the medical establishment: “We have the right to demand a better quality of life for ourselves,” she said. “And that’s what doctors have got to learn to start respecting.”
Obviously, Oprah is a woman and was talking about getting her estrogen level in check, but this pretty well describes the feeling that most men get when they get their testosterone level to a good place. For me, it felt like my entire perception of reality was adjusted – it was that dramatic. I’m not just talking about old guys here either – I was 34 at the time. I also didn’t have a ‘rock bottom’ T level – just going from ‘low normal’ to ‘normal’ levels was enough for me.
It seems to me like hacking your hormones is something that most women would consider doing – its use is already widespread. For men, it’s still very underground – it’s only really the bodybuilding community, the anti-aging crowd, baseball players <ahem>, and hollywood celebrities that are doing this. Why is this? Why is your average 40 year old guy with a desk job not doing this if it improves his quality of life?
I predict that within the next few years we will see a major paradigm shift here. Generation X man is growing old, and it’s getting old.
This is a hedonistic generation that has grown up around recreational drug use, the meteoric rise of nutritional supplementation and the relentless bombardment of ‘big pharma’ marketing. They want to feel good, and they are prepared to hack their hormones to get it. They will take the pills, rub on the gel, take a shot in the ass once a week – whatever it takes to look good into their 60s, ward off depression, and still get laid from time to time.
That’s the salient point with Oprah’s message – she is not hacking her hormones to treat a medical condition, she is doing it to feel good!
Personally, I hope that Oprah’s message gets through to all the women out there. Hopefully it will keep them attractive and sexually active into their 60s – I intend to have the testosterone level of a 20 year old when I am that age, and I’ll still need to get laid.
