All kinds of guys, no idea if they were fat or not. Google: "study 600mg testosterone".
You are talking speaking of the ground breaking study from 1996 by the well known and highly respected Shalender Bhasin.
If you take the time to read it thoroughly the 600 mg/week dose of testosterone was only used for 10 weeks.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
METHODS
We randomly assigned
43 normal men to one of four groups: placebo with no exercise,
testosterone with no exercise, placebo plus exercise,
and testosterone plus exercise.
The men received injections of 600 mg of testosterone enanthate or placebo weekly for 10 weeks.
The study was divided into a
4-week control period,
a 10-week treatment period, and
a 16-week recovery period. During the four-week control period, the men were asked not to lift any weights or engage in strenuous aerobic exercise.
- so the study was a total of 30 weeks and only a 10 week treatment period (600 mg testosterone/week).
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
You just stated "
All kinds of guys, no idea if they were fat or not. Google: "study 600mg testosterone"
- the study was a total of 40 men and out of those 40 men only 11 were on testosterone (600 mg/week).....whoopee!
Of the 43 men, 3 dropped out during the treatment phase: 1 because of problems with compliance, 1 because illicit-drug use was detected by routine drug screening, and 1 because of an automobile accident.
Forty men completed the study: 10 in the placebo, no-exercise group;
10 in the testosterone, no-exercise group; 9 in the placebo-plus-exercise group; and
11 in the testosterone-plus-exercise group.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
You also stated in reply to
maxadvance "This is false, tho.
600mg a week on tons and tons of men showed no negative side effects even after 6 months. And this study was replicated several times"
-Really? tons and tons of men and no negative sides after 6 months even though only 21 men were using 600 mg/week of testosterone for a whole 10 weeks.....AMAZING!
You might want to take the time to look into the research more deeply before you claim higher doses are side effect FREE as the end of the paper states:
Our results in no way justify the use of anabolic–androgenic steroids in sports, because, with extended use, such drugs have potentially serious adverse effects on the cardiovascular system, prostate, lipid metabolism, and insulin sensitivity. Moreover, the use of any performance-enhancing agent in sports raises serious ethical issues. Our findings do, however, raise the possibility that the short-term administration of androgens may have beneficial effects in immobilized patients, during space travel, and in patients with cancer-related cachexia, disease caused by the human immunodeficiency virus, or other chronic wasting disorders.