Steroids! PEDS! Get on the "Gear"? Everyone's On A "Cycle"? Has It Become Socially Acceptable to Use These Drugs? Any Ramifications? Do We Need Solutions? Or Just Keeping Working Out Until You Can't?

The Best Paragraph I've Read: The use of performance-enhancing drugs, a.k.a. PEDs, remains something of a shadow world—but it may not remain so for long. Consider the shifting landscape of what’s now edging toward the mainstream in health care. Cannabis as a cancer therapy. Psychiatrists testing out psychedelics. MDMA being studied for use in treating PTSD. The gap between our society’s embrace of once-taboo ideas and its faith in institutional medicine is widening—and personally, I laugh anytime I catch a drug commercial telling me to consult my doctor, because who the hell has a doctor anymore? For many, medicine is no longer a visit to the physician’s office but a dip into YouTube, a scroll through TikTok, maybe a quick Zoom with a tele-med nurse practitioner, or a visit to the nearest urgent care. This paragraph comes from GQ. The article is titled: "Why Is Everyone on Steroids Now?" The author is Rosecrans Baldwin. You can read the full article here: https://www.gq.com/story/why-is-everyone-on-steroids-now Zac & Don discuss the rise in Steroid & PED use. They also discuss why it has become more socially acceptable to use these drugs.