Steroids are the ultimate “life hack” for people who hate the one thing that actually builds physiques: time. They work. That is why they are tempting. They turn the dial on muscle and strength faster than your patience can. And that is exactly why they are a bad trade for casual lifters: you are paying for speed with systems you only notice when they fail—heart, vessels, hormones, mood, fertility.
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Some people like loud symbols. Big flags, big slogans, big declarations. Other people prefer quiet ones. A little sign here, a number there, a wink that fits inside a username. Not everyone wants to announce what team they are on. Some prefer to keep it “just a joke,” “just a meme,” “just a detail.”
Which is, in its own way, elegant. It is also convenient.
Because a quiet sign can … Read the rest
By Eric Le Roy
Content 18+ In a recent blog I discussed the unsavory possibility that I am nothing more than a test-tube, hormonally equipped with bubbling cells that direct me to think thoughts and do things that I mistakenly attribute to some kind of ‘free will’. I imagined what would happen if, like some kind of cosmic dart, I was thrown into the portrait known as the Mona Lisa, … Read the rest
