Originally Posted by Anonymous
I've actually researched this fairly extensively just out of curiosity. Basically I came out on the side of "just don't do it!". Only in the case of fairly severe cases of hormone deficiency does it even begin to cross over into the area of medically necessary. There are many doctors who strongly believe that the long term consequences can be severely detrimental leading to many potential health problems as an adult - mainly involving the liver, link to certain cancers, cardiovascular and circulatory systems - particular abnormalities of the heart (enlargement) - remember the heart is a muscle and affected the same way a bicep would be. Don't even think about it for an athletic edge! Unfortunately there are parents who will try to push the envelope and for sure if you look hard enough for a doctor to go along with it you'll find one too.
You posted that your were aware of a conversation [which had to be within a row or two of where you were sitting on an airplane] between boys in the Class of 2016 age group.

While you might want to mask the discussion into a "don't do it" framework, you have either posted wrongly to stir this issue or you ignored a young man who was using these dangerous chemicals.

So, how much of this research did you share with the young man in question ... or did you turn a deaf ear?