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That's the thing though, if wikipedia is to be believed, and testosterone is the hormone most often used, we do know the end effects of consuming it. Sure, test
by natecavanaugh 10y ago
That's the thing though, if wikipedia is to be believed, and testosterone is the hormone most often used, we do know the end effects of consuming it. Sure, testosterone is an insanely powerful hormone, but it's not like the effects of it on humans is misunderstood or harmful.
I'm trying to imagine how much damage could be wrought at even large amounts of tilapia
(at least from the hormonal aspect...).
- throwanem 10y agoWell, as far as "harmful" goes, there's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polycystic_ovary_syndrome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polycystic_ovary_syndrome, for a start.
- peyton 10y agoI believe the parent was referring to oral administration of testosterone (or, in the case of most fish, 11-ketotestosterone). Levels in a typical serving of tilapia are probably in the nanogram range. Oral bioavailability in humans of around 3% puts us in the picogram range of dosage, or about a billionth of what the average male produces in a week. You'd need a pretty healthy appetite to get PCOS from tilapia.
- throwanem 10y agoSure. But fish may not be the only animals so treated. And, in any case, you did say that testosterone's effect on humans is not harmful. We have here a case in which it is. There are many others, for this and other hormones. To blithely discount the possibility that eating hormone-treated meat may pose a risk seems therefore rather optimistic.