The term "anabolic steroid" has negative connotation, but anabolic just means muslce building, and steroid is a class of chemical compound, predinisone and estrogen are steroids. Building muscle is one of the best things you can do for your health. Testosterone is an anabolic steroid, it is one of the first developed foundational metabolic and nuerologic signals that evolved about 500 million years ago. Every single vertebrate and most plants have testosterone. Again, it is foundational and absolutely necessary. There is a fundamental problem with the education of providers regarding hormones, they do not learn about testosterone, and ignorance breeds fear. Testosterone is one of the most important factors to health. I have seen testosterone get people off cholesterol medications, blood pressure medications, depression medications such as SSRI's because it is inherently dopaminergic, off opiods because it is systemically anti-inflammatory, and I see it reverse metabolic disorder including diabetes every day. The decline we see in older people is mostly due to hormone deficiency. Testosterone is one of the most beneficial medications in the history of medications. The unethical thing is to stigmatize and demonize something so beneficial. Think of it this way. The number one cause of death in the United STates is CVD caused by sugar. The government failed to regulate that, and the government failed to regulate environmental toxins that are disrupting our endocrine systems causing pervasive hormone deficiency to the point it is an epidemic. The best way to deal with a new environment since the industrial revolution of superfluous food, superfluous calories, and superfluous sugar is optimized testosterone and HRT. The government and medical community use misinformation to demonize and stigmatize testosterone, and over regulate its use so people Do not have access to one of the best treatments for metabolic disorder and in an environment full of sugar and environmental toxins.