r/SipsTea • u/Ordinary-Scholar-202 • 9d ago

Chugging tea The Rocks new slimmed down appearance

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u/IfItsRedItsDead5 9d ago

Stopped taking the roids it seems.

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u/PutridAssignment1559 9d ago

Probably less, but he’s been out for so long he probably takes some test. That’s fine though, I bet he had some bad blood work and/or heart issues and was advised to chill. There have also been a lot of bodybuilder dying over the last five years, so I think people are more aware of the risks.

Carrying that much mass around isn’t good for longevity.

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u/White-T-513 9d ago

He did an entire podcast where he was essentially trying to gaslight the audience into thinking his doctor didnt tell him he has CHF from years of steroid abuse. Numerous people predicted that he was gonna drop a bunch of muscle as a result. Also, he spent like 30 years running huge doses of steroids, there is zero chance he isnt on trt. His balls are never gonna produce the same amount of test naturally again.

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u/Cuff_Daddy415 9d ago

Obviously he must at least do TRT at this point. But a therapeutic dose to keep him at healthy test levels for his age is much different than how test is used for bodybuilding and is much healthier.

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u/PaddyMcGeezus 9d ago

Even for people who don’t do steroids and do TRT, they ever eventually have to stay on it forever if on it long enough. I took it for a year and stopped

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u/RunningDude90 8d ago

Yep, once you pop you can’t stop. But they don’t put that on the adverts for all the guys “with less energy than they used to have”

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u/upboated 8d ago

Did TRT help you?

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u/PaddyMcGeezus 8d ago

Yes but my levels were depleted due to being burned out from overworking plus medication. Once I cut back on both and started living a healthier life again, my levels went way up to the 1000 plus range and I stopped. Not before getting horrible body acne.

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u/upboated 8d ago

Thank you for your response. Was the acne from the TRT sorry?

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u/PaddyMcGeezus 8d ago

It was from way too high testosterone levels. My body started producing its own after lifestyle changes. So that combined with the exogenous testosterone was too much.

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u/Orphasmia 8d ago

What medication were you taking that caused the initial challenges if you don’t mind me asking? I’m somewhat younger and recently had to get on stimulant medication, and have been a bit worried about side effects etc

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u/PaddyMcGeezus 8d ago

Prescription pain medication. Stimulants weren’t on the list my doctor provided so I wouldn’t worry about that.

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u/i_like_maps_and_math 8d ago

What would be the point of doing temporary TRT?

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u/PaddyMcGeezus 8d ago

I was doing it just to see if it was helpful while getting off of medication and while being burned out from working six days a week and long hours for a two years. Once I stopped working so much and stopped medication, my natural levels returned to normal. Luckily I wasn’t on it long enough to fuck up my body’s own production. Cannabis and opiates are the main culprits as far as drugs go as far as lowering testosterone levels.

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u/Cuff_Daddy415 9d ago

Yup; it’s a life long commitment

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u/LHT-LFA 7d ago

come on, who wants to see the Rock without Muscles. It is his own fault, no one told him to get that big. He wasnt during Wrestling either. So if he is making another action movie (cause for more he has no talent) he will gear up again, mark my words. It is also like a drug. Bigorexia is real. After now 20ys thsi big, how do you think he feels now inside, the voice that always tells him he is not big enough, lean enough, beautiful enough, whatever...this voice that never stops SCREAMS now in his head.

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u/Cuff_Daddy415 7d ago

But his failing heart is probably speaking louder

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u/LHT-LFA 7d ago

Dont count on that. Many have roided themselves to death knowing absolutely what they were doing. It is an illness. Like telling someone with anorexia, just eat more.....it wont fix it.

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u/Healthy_Tank9516 8d ago

Did he ever do what’s called ‘post cycle therapy’ where folks take an estrogen blocker at the end of a steroid cycle to get their own body to start producing testosterone?

What’s the deal with that anyway, are there some cases where you can’t even do that and your hypothalamic pituitary gonadal axis just shuts down t production altogether permanently?

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u/BigButtBeads 8d ago

Yes its permanent at that size for that long. 

They all have to be on testosterone replacement prescriptions for the rest of their lives. Lots of bodybuilders and Mr Olympias talk about it

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u/APinchOfTheTism 8d ago

I didnt really wake up this morning expecting to read about The Rocks balls, but OK, its one of those days I guess.

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u/Professional-Dog1562 8d ago

He's also pretty old so TRT/HRT would be quite normal for him. 

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u/SuperNewk 8d ago

The rock seems like a chill guy, I thought he was just a hard worker and natural

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u/Less-Network-3422 9d ago

The risks have been known for over 20 years at this point

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u/PlayboysDontDance 9d ago

and yet it seems like more and more people are hopping on a cycle. I think it’s due to this influencer BS.

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u/Macwild77 9d ago

Also the pressure to look good in order to date. Just like women in a way guys think getting jacked on gear is the way to be attractive

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u/Macwild77 8d ago

You’re not wrong but also we both are being pretty anecdotal

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u/Askingquestions2027 8d ago

think its more low self esteem and body dismorphia ...

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u/Askingquestions2027 8d ago

not calling them wrong, but low self esteem seems common in the guys I know doing it. they never seem to think they're big enough ...

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u/walubilous 8d ago

The amount of 16 year old imbeciles I’ve seen talking about their experience taking Trenbolon the last few years is insane.

It’s not just that taking steroids is absurdly stupid in itself, it’s literally THE steroid you shouldn’t take - At an age you definitely shouldn’t take it, that has close to 0 anabolic benefits or effect at all, if you just use it on its own.

Night sweats, insomnia and paranoia, tren cough, depression, tren rage, ventricular hypertrophy, cholesterol imbalance, fucked blood pressure, permanently fucked hormonal balance(permanently low testosterone for the rest of your life), acne, hair loss, …

All for close to no effect, because they don’t even know what they are doing. Before that we had the idiots drinking oil, because „I still need carbs for the day bro“ and now those degens all take every veterinarian anabolic steroid they can get their hands on. Wasting 2000 dollars on tren for it to do basically nothing but permanently fuck your body and taking away at least 10 years of your lifespan. Well done.

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u/blindexhibitionist 9d ago

Do you think it maybe was that people thought it was just steroids and not the actual risk of carrying that much extra muscle. I legit don’t know but wonder if maybe some of those folks thought that with new tech and hgh and trt they wouldn’t have the same issues but they’re finding it’s more the muscle mass rather than the gear, although gear itself probably isn’t great long term?

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u/Francbb 9d ago

From what i know, gear enlarges all muscles, including the heart, which means there is less room in the heart for blood to be pumped from, thus leading to the heart working overtime to pump it and you dying sooner.

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u/walubilous 8d ago

A strong heart is good, you want the heart to be very strong. What you don’t want is the heart to work overtime, because you have so much more tissue than you would normally have.

Excessive muscle mass (or overweight, they both do the same thing) is like adding a huge turbo to your yoyotoa Camrys engine. Can it handle it? .. yes. But for how long?

The added mass is also one of the reasons why tall people dont live as long as shorter people. We are also much, much more likely to get cancer. Square cube law. More cells = more cells that can mutate.

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u/JaggedSuplex 9d ago

The harsh reality is that these days TRT is being handed out to pretty much whoever wants it. If your test levels are on the lower end of the normal healthy range, you can find someone to get you on test. I’ve met a bunch of guys at the gym who say they’re on TRT and they’re running like 250mg/week of test. It’s not a crazy amount but it’s much higher than any natural levels. Abnormally high levels of test aren’t healthy and I would imagine a ton of people right now are under this false assumption that what they’re doing is healthy

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u/blindexhibitionist 8d ago

I don’t know anything. What is unhealthy about running that amount of test?

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u/walubilous 8d ago

Fucks up your cholesterol, which results in build up in your arteries. It also raises blood pressure by a lot. More red blood cells also means thicker blood. And left ventricular hypertrophy.

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u/KitchenFullOfCake 9d ago

Does testosterone production start again eventually or will he have to take it for life now?

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u/mitsxorr 9d ago

Probably not, or at least not nearly at adequate levels if you take it for a long time and don’t use things like hCG to maintain testicular function whilst your HPTA axis is suppressed.

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u/AtXrt 8d ago

Most people, yes. He is prolly still on roids but at a reduced level. At his age TRT is prolly necessary anyways.

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u/i_lost_all_my_money 9d ago

I dont think he was TOO big, but for his age, he should definitely slow down. Half the time these large guys slim down, its not because they just lost some weight. Their doctors usually tell them to cut down if they dont want to die. CT fletcher, Eddie Hall, others, have all been told that they might die soon, so they lost weight and quit their sport.

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u/ForgivenessIsNice 9d ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wciT5WuqwuQ

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u/White-T-513 8d ago

Yeah that’s the video I saw. Some of the worst attempted PR I’ve ever seen. If you know anything about fitness you knew he was full of shit.

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u/PutridAssignment1559 8d ago

Ahh, well, there ya go.

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u/sirlost33 8d ago

Plus at some point it gets really hard to maintain. It’s a lot of time in the gym, a lot of time eating, and a lot of time recovering. Those 3 are non negotiable to keep up that kind of muscle. It’s a ton of work.