SH wrote:
Hmmm, maybe I didn't make my case as well as I could have....what about FDA approval then? This stuff was double blind tested and approved by the FDA. There is no higher standard for safety to my knowledge. I would think that would qualify, at least, as "some assurance".
FDA approved means nothing on its own. Clinical trials are designed with respect to a target population. In the case of doctors supplementing middle-aged guys with low-T, in the range encountered typically in triathletes, you're not talking about the target population...The large majority of the folks exercising a lot will have total T and free T well outside the inclusion criteria for the clinical trials. Therefore, the argument that it's FDA approved can't be made.