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I wonder if the facts play out that the myostatin inhibitors you're thinking of could increase lean muscle mass or volume but have nearly no effect on strength (nonfunctional hypertrophy) if people would still want to use them. This could also fuck up things like tendons due to increased load due to perceived badassery where there is none.
If no one could guess I am skeptical about trying to hack the body in these ways--not in principle but in our new era of bro science based on anecdata instead of empirical studies, clinical trials, and third thing goes here. People on this very board will doubt statins (which have had many, many studies done on their efficacy, have improved over the years, and, while not completely safe, are about as safe as any drug at the population level) yet embrace peptides from China with zero regulation or assurance that they contain what they are supposed to contain, based on a few good stories of people who've used them for almost a year, and wow.
I'm probably wrong. I sound as if I am dismissing OP and everyone in here, but I do not mean to do so. It is interesting though to see how people swallow whole perspectives that are based on flimsy evidence and anecdotes when it suits them or is in line with what they wish to believe, yet if a cause they abhor were to offer up the same type of data as proof they would scoff and call for a wrecking ball to universities. Or whatever.
(Full disclosure: Universities do seem to suck in their current iteration. I do not deny it. I am rather pointing out an inconsistency, and one that I would realize I am probably equally guilty of were I a bit more self-aware.)
I'm not on the Chinese mystery powder train myself. I have doubts that most of these substances will pan out as people hope. However, I'm all in favor of bro science people using themselves as guinea pigs for my education and entertainment.
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