Cosmetic Pharmacology

NYT on sports doping. I see people at the gym who look like they’re juicing. But for the most part, they don’t look chemically enhanced– even the ones who are obviously working out too much, or too hard, or too often.

If it were cheap and easy, I’d probably do HGH– it seems to be so risk free! So exciting! But on the whole, my money’s still on the non-speed anti-sleep drug Provigil and of course Viagra or Cialis– I don’t (yet) need or want the subtle, long-term benefits of additional HGH in my system. I imagine I may feel differently in twenty years when my body has stopped producing much of it on its own.