Don't get me wrong Will, I'm not trying to make you feel bad for busting on somebody who had a misfortune. I think the inventor of "gallows humor" is an ancestor of mine and I'm at my best, humorifically speaking when I'm going before the judge, going into surgery or trying to explain a new $3K rifle. That out of the way, the answer is, from my experience, fighting tooth and nail, unsuccessful, against declining health and fitness and increasing weight. To give you an idea of where I started from, on my 20th birthday I ran my usual 4 miles which I could do in 25 minutes on a good day. I ran by a chin-up bar at the local school and stopped to see how many I could do. 20 chin ups and I hadn't done one in three or four years. At age 50 I had come to the point of despair, weighing 270 pounds (I'm six feet tall, medium build), watching my strength, fitness and health decline and weight increase, despite day long bicycle rides, hours in the pool and strenuous dieting. I had my testosterone tested and it was 70 ng/dcl. The answer is, no you don't watch the Golden Girls, you watch yourself slowly die. I'm now on the needle, my health has improved, my strength is doubled, endurance is way up and I'm just doing a lot better. My advice to every man over 50 and every man struggling with increasing weight and declining fitness and health, get it tested, get it fixed.
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