What's up guys? Derek, morepleytoidates.com. Today we're going to be talking about steroids making you old and an example of a before and after of a very seasoned bodybuilder who actually is a gorilla mind athlete and a friend of mine, vigorous Steve. He had a pretty dramatic transformation not only going from, you know, untrained to being a

massive bodybuilder, but then afterwards, going into PCT and, you know, letting the super

physiological mass, you know, like start to fall off as he, uh, you know, um, you know, cleans out

and tries to, uh, essentially get to a optimized health status before he, you know, you know, cleans out and tries to essentially get to a optimized health status

before he then, you know, continues with his bodybuilding endeavors in the future.

And obviously when you come off of gear, after being on years blasting and cruising, you know,

there's going to be significant changes to your physique, not just in like, you know, temporary muscle fullness and, you know, performance outcomes in the gym and whatnot, but your overall, like, aesthetic appeal takes on a whole new look and it's largely driven, at least what I speculated by a lot of it being water retention, but also

like actual, what I assumed to be actual tissue accrual via certain mechanisms that are

driven through anabolic, hyperplasia, obviously exacerbated significantly with growth hormone

and things of this nature. And I actually did a video a while back called Keeping Your Hair versus gaining more muscle

with endogenic steroids.

And I basically had this, you know, like comparison photo beside a, you know, a dude who just

like, if you actually look at this dude's body, it's actually, you know, like I guess maybe

to the average person, they would say this guy's body is better than this guy. actually, you know, like I guess maybe to the average person, they would say this guy's

body is better than this guy, but, you know, to a bodybuilder perspective, like this guy makes

this guy look like a little dad bod child, to be honest, when they're shirtless beside one

another. However, the faces and the hair and the overall just complexion relative to one another and the progression,

their skin quality, facial structure, etc., has taken on throughout the years, you'll notice

in bodybuilders it gets significantly worse at an accelerated rate and you take on a look that

is just not that attractive, unfortunately. It's almost like the more muscle you gain above and beyond a certain point, the worse your face gets. And I did another video that was actually fairly popular called the fat head effect caused by gaining muscle. It's not just water retention. This is something you see very often with some of the top pros in the

industry, the guys who are chasing significant, significant amounts of mass. You see Kai

Green, he had like a relatively, you know, normal, like actually very, I guess, aesthetically

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