Originally Posted by
VegasTriker
If I have a problem with the plumbing in my home, I don't go to a bike shop and ask what I need to do about it. Why would you expect to get competent medical advice on a bike blog? Find a gerontologist who has specialized in the medicine of aging. There aren't a lot of them but maybe you will be lucky enough to find one in your area. That's who you should be asking this question.
Gerontology (from the Greek γέρων, geron, "old man" and -λογία, -logia, "study of"; coined by Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov in 1903) is the study of the social, psychological, cognitive, and biological aspects of aging. There is a branch of medicine for this too.
You find us a 70 y.o. gerontologist who still does a couple hundred miles/week on his bike and sure, we'd all listen to him. Some guy sitting in an office, nope. That office doc's got nothing on the line. We put it all on the line. These folks here know more.
Every day on the radio there's advertising from "men's clinics." We see the magazine and online ads, too. They're all in it for the money. T for cash, man. Sure, we all have low T. No sh*t. Like berner said, we can all drug up and do way better . . . for a while. So far I'm doing better than my 65 y.o. cyclist doctor who rode more and harder than I have, until he gave himself Afib and had to back it way off.
If I have a problem with plumbing at my home, I go get my tools. I designed all the plumbing for my house and did a lot of it. I don't get this thing where we're supposed to defer to some authority who knows better than we do. I refuse. I have pain, I figure out how to fix it. So far, so good. I grew up on a homestead in Alaska. You can't figure it out, you're dead.