Within today's wonderful edition of The Armstrong & Getty One More Thing Podcast....
First, hair fashions. Next, Jack in the mood to overshare--will he regret it? Not to be missed!
I have no idea if it's a good idea or not. It's one more.
Thing I'm strong and getty, one more thing.
Coming up with an idea for the podcast today, I mentioned I'm in the mood to overshare, so I will probably regret it. I'll probably regret it at some point. But during before we started, Joe mentioned Joe said I need a haircut. Joe, Joe said he needs a haircut.
Yeah.
Yes, I rarely comment on other people's eat. For a haircut, you need a I leave it to them.
And Jack getting a haircut would be interesting.
Yeah, which reminded me.
I took both my kids for haircuts on Saturday, and they both have fabulous hair. They got their mom's hair. They're very lucky because she's got great hair and uh, and they're like, you know, going through the book and picking out which haircut they want, everything like.
And I never had that in my life. Never, never, one day in my.
Life did I ever have a choice of what my hair was going to look like, even when I was a kid.
So I just say, they must be of fun.
So maybe that's why I like, Maybe that's why I care about other aspects of fashion is because I've never had the opportunity to have different hair fashions.
Yeah, I've been a long hair much of my life and I would like to be even now. But I have tom petty hair. It just hangs straight down. It curls a little bit as it gets long, but it just looks terrible.
Big hair is coming back. Can you put a lot of product in it and make it big somehow?
What a fair amound? How much product is enough?
You're gonna go big hair because I've seen I've seen more and more women with the big hair Katie.
Uh, it's a lot of work to get mine to be big hair. Yeah, I have kind of similar hair to Joe. It just isn't doesn't have the volume that I want.
Speaking of how you look to my overshare of the day, I don't think I've mentioned this on the air. So I started using testosterone treatment year and.
A half ago.
So long ago?
Huh yeah, year and a half two, something like it. Anyway, it's been quite a while, it's been two years. Definitely been two years. And I have no idea if this is a good idea. Now I'm going to my regular, my actual real doctor today and I'm going to talk to him about it a little bit. But the way, so I knew a couple of people who are I thought they were taking steroids or something like that, and it turned out they were just doing testosterone. But the thing that sold me on it as a guy in his mid fifties when I was talking to them was they said, you feel like you're thirty again. And I like the idea of that because I was feeling really lethartic.
Well, I'm the control group I have. I believe no testosteron and I could probably lactate. I mean, no energy, no will, no drive, just terrible. I'm a slug of a.
Man, and more so than anything else, especially at the time that I was talking about this, I just liked the idea of having some freaking energy again or any strength.
I was getting weaker by the day anyway.
So a friend of mine who had been doing it suggested to me, And so they got these I was gonna say, fake doctors. I shouldn't say that. One I sued, and two they're real doctors. I'm sure they've just decided to use their medical school in doctor's license to work for you know, something other than a hospital. And you go, well, the bottom five percent of their class has to do something. I don't know if that's it or if it's I actually don't know. I'm the slightest idea a text or email. If you know anything about this? Who goes to start to work for the kind of company where I've never seen one of these people in person. I've done a phone call with them that probably probably satisfies some government regulation. Right, they talked to me on the phone, so they can say they actually consulted me, eliminated.
A couple of obvious don'ts. You know, if you have this, if you suffer from this, this is not a good idea for.
You, right, And they do.
They do get a blood sample, so they send you the kit to take your own blood and you mail it off to them, and I assume they actually look at at it and they and they figure out what your current level of your testosterone is.
And it's just a knife and a bucket. Yeah, what's a knife and a bell jar? Right?
You've never had that before.
Where you take your own blood and send it somewhere.
No, okay has done that a few.
Times, like needle inject that type of Uh No, it.
Was just a little clicker thing you put on your finger and Okay, it doesn't feel pleasant, but you hit the button.
Yeah, finger.
Then you have to get a certain amount of it into a little thing, and then you may lost good. And again, I don't have the slightest idea if they actually look at it or.
Just all the trash.
Where are these clinics located? Jack?
Is this some guy's garage or an actual medical building? Is this is a white van that said clinic.
I actually don't know where it is I'm talking to I've talked to these people on the phone. I don't know where they were. So you do the consultant and they look you over, and there's a real Again, I don't know at all.
Maybe you do.
There's a possibility they don't look at the blood at all. There's a possibility they run it through a lab and do all kinds of tests and turn people down.
I find that hard to believe.
I think it's more likely that they don't look at anything and turns out you're a great candidate for our treatment.
That costs.
It's kind of expensive. I think I'm paying one hundred and eighty a month or something. I mean, it's not cheap, it's.
Not horrible, though there are a lot of really popular pharmaceuticals that cost more than that.
Well, skip into the bottom line. I look better with my shirt off than I ever have in my life at my current age. In my life I'm including when I was twenty five. I look better now than I ever have in my life. And that's one benefit is a single guy. Also, just the energy part, which is why I originally got into it. I feel like I'm thirty five. I just the amount of energy I have playing with the kids, riding bikes, doing things.
It's awesome. Now that explains how you've been keeping with those kids like you have. I wondered, Yeah, is.
That uh oh yeah, jumping on the trampoline, just doing whatever that I used to do, swimming the pool, playing games, all the stuff that I that I was kind of slowly getting away from. But I also don't know if I'm giving myself, you know, an early death or some sort of brain cancer or I have no idea.
There are downsides, which I assume you've read up on.
At least I've had zero downsides. I'm on a very minor right treatment.
People.
Yeah, a lot of people that are like super squol, they're going really big, and that that can do all kinds of stuff to you that I don't want to do. So I'm staying below the threshold for any like real real downsides.
Is this a pill or is it an injection?
It's a cream. You can do the I have a friend that some people do the injections. I can't stick a needle in me. Yeah, I can't do that. There's no way I'm sticking a needle in me. And I talked to my doctor about it once and he was fine with it, my real doctor, especially at the level that I was taking. But I had one more point I was gonna make. Oh here's an interesting thing that you might Should I share this or not?
I'm sure it's fine, Joe.
Should I share this or not?
I don't No, No.
It's the podcast. Come on, you're right, it's the podcast. So you have males. I don't know if you know this, Katie. Males have testes. Oh and what your test he does is it produces testosterone. Well, if you're taking a testosterone supplement, your testes decide, I guess our work is done here, and they shrink up to nothing, slackers. They practically disappear from your body reasons, which is which is kind of weird.
I can't believe I'm hearing this.
But like I said, I feel better and look better than I ever have. I don't know if I feel better than I ever had my life. I felt pretty good when I was like a teenager and early twenties, but I look better and you know, so maybe my eyes fall out when I'm seventy years old, or ankles snapping two because my bones got thinner, or some crazy thing like that.
I'm reading some of the pros and cons.
There's cons to everything, sure exactly.
I do know people though, that take it at a pretty high dose, and they like have the explosive anger and all that sort of stuff. I haven't had anything like that. That was one of the main reasons I wanted to stay really low level because I don't want any emotional nuttiness. I've had none of that, Thank god.
Jack's new code name Raisins.
Actually a buddy of mine. He started it on because he had cramps at night. He'd get cramps in his legs just all the time that would wake him up, horrible cramps, and he started taking it to get rid of those.
Network.
Yeah, some of the stuff that I'm the most would be the most concerned about, increased chance of a heart attack and stroke, thrombo embolism of potentially fatal type of blood clot. In twenty fourteen, the FDA ordered that a warning label must accompany the prescriptions alerting men blah blah blah. But more recent studies have failed to link it to an increase in cardiovascular events, at least for a two year period of treatment, and may actually be protective against developing diabetes for some men.
Research is ongoing well.
And yeah, and if you've ever read much about the what it takes to qualify for a warning label, that's why every medicine you take lists one hundred different things that could give.
You right and it ends with death.
Yeah, inclinding, sudden death, which is always the best.
Well, I'm a feel calf of a man who can't wait to lie down, So maybe I'll take a look at this. Yeah, America love test us.
I do know a guy who's taken so much he's swollen, but his blood pressure went way up.
I wouldn't want that either.
Oh no, that's no good.
Every once in a while I missed my testicles. We had a lot of good times together.
No, I just I have nothing.
Yeah, I think we're go ahead, Jack.
Oh that was enough.
Well, next episode, I'll talk about the pill I'm taking to treat my head lice.
Oh you know what, Michael, before we get to that, I I just came across this. If you, uh, can I do anything to elevate my testosterone naturally? If you are overweight or obese, weight loss and perhaps especially exercise may help boost your levels without magic medication. I also remember a study that I brought up on the air that was really really interesting that was talking about how part of the problem with a veal caffe raising of kids, helicopter parenting, that sort of thing. The opposite of free range parenting is that kids don't face risk and resolution. They don't face any sort of even mild danger and the feeling of getting past that, you know, clearing those hurdles and thinking, you know, and I'm pretty good at that. And that's one of the reasons that it uh, you know, that sort of experience decreases your anxiety, it's confidence. In short, it also raises your testosterone right confronting uncertainty or if you will, danger And so I've just got to hire somebody. Never mind testosterone. I gotta hire somebody to periodically like release savage pit pulls that run at me. Yeah you are a lion or I don't know.
It'd be easy.
You find some hoble, you slip them with twenty say, every once in a while, jump out from behind the bushes, which sounds reasonable.
Right, guy shows up, He adds me a big knife. I'm like, what's the story. You got a knife? I got a knife. Let's go, and then before you know it, I'll have the testosterone of a young man.
Well, I guess that's it.