Separate Forum for Anabolic Therapy with Rx AAS?

[readalot]

@Chris_Colucci: I never heard from you on the topic below. What’s your thoughts? Is a separate forum (separate from current Pharma) for anabolic therapy with AAS feasible and/or worthwhile?

Thanks in advance for your time and thoughts on the matter.

@readalot

Would it be worthwhile to split out this forum to have

one forum for anecdotal discussion of anabolic therapy using pharmaceutical grade AAS (Rx either through traditional or compounding pharmacy which use USP registered bulk ingredients)

vs

another forum which would cover UGL AAS which may or may not contain the API as advertised?

This approach would also deconvolute the issue with side effects / impurities associated with UGL products vs the side effect profile of legitimate Pharma grade medication. From an epidemiologic standpoint, may be useful, since many folks coming into this area have no idea the difference in risk/quality of Pharmaceutical grade vs UGL.

You’d have one group who only want to understand risk/reward with Pharma Rx AAS (what’s available depends on country), then you’d have another group who are willing to take that next level risk with UGL material that couples risk of the API (or whatever maybe substituted in place of claimed API) combined with risk of no GMP on the production. Calling out the difference may be educational and useful to the respective audiences but more work.

@Chris_Colucci any thoughts on this? Or am I just daydreaming at this point? I know you guys are already doing a lot just having this forum. Thanks for considering.

[Chris_Colucci]

Totally unnecessary because it’d be a subsection within a subsection within a subsection, like having one forum for people who load bumper plates on the bar and a separate forum for people who load metal plates on the bar.

As it stands, in the broadest terms, Pharma is for recreational use of anabolics and T Replacement is for medical use. That’s about as separate as it needs to be and there’s no drastic benefit to subcategorizing AAS-related forums further. When it comes to using pharma-grade vs UGL gear, the onus is on the lifter to understand the differences/expectations/risks.

Not to mention the fact that the Pharma forum, first and foremost, does not discuss specific sources. Trying to have in-depth threads on the topics you’re talking about without actually mentioning specific brands, labs, or sites would be a precarious (and likely often-crossed) line.

[mnben87]

@Chris_Colucci

like having one forum for people who load bumper plates on the bar and a separate forum for people who load metal plates on the bar.

We have that though. The Olympic lifting sub forum and the Powerlifting sub forum.

[readalot]

Thanks for sharing your thoughts and the feedback. I appreciate the precarious nature of this situation. If I understand you correctly, the audience for non-recreational (medically legitimate) use of AAS is so small that there is not much value in my idea. Got it.

[Chris_Colucci]

@mnben87

We have that though.

@readalot

the audience for non-recreational (medically legitimate) use of AAS is so small that there is not much value in my idea.

It’s a combination of the small group the category might possibly be relevant to, plus the fact that any discussions that’d occur there can already be sufficiently addressed with the current forum setup.

[readalot]

Thanks for confirming. I get the feedback all the time I am a member of many small groups. Oh well.

[mnben87]

I was joking. Humor on the internet is difficult sometimes.