What did @gilsonbrown_ actually say?
Honestly? Almost nothing coherent. The transcript captured from this video reads: "The Urtery, the ground, and incinerate all that divides and distinguishes." That is not a medical claim, a training tip, or even a complete thought in any recognizable language. It appears to be a transcription artifact, possibly from a heavily accented voiceover, background music lyrics, or a garbled audio capture. The caption, however, tells a different story.
The caption says "Deu um pump absurdo" (Portuguese for "gave an insane pump") and tags hashtags including #testosteronebooster and #goticas, which translates roughly to "drops" in Portuguese. This framing strongly implies the creator is attributing a significant muscle pump to some kind of testosterone-boosting substance, likely in drop form. That is a claim worth examining, even if the spoken transcript gave us nothing usable.
Does the science back this up?
The pump itself is real. The attribution to a "testosterone booster" in drop form is where things get slippery. Muscle pump, the temporary increase in muscle size during and after training, is driven primarily by nitric oxide-mediated vasodilation and fluid accumulation in muscle tissue, not testosterone fluctuations within a single workout session.
Testosterone does not spike fast enough after a single dose of a sublingual or oral product to meaningfully alter intra-workout hemodynamics. A 2021 review by Vingren and Kraemer in Sports Medicine confirmed that acute testosterone responses to resistance exercise are transient and context-dependent, and do not reliably correlate with hypertrophy outcomes session to session. If a drop-form product is a legitimate compounded testosterone formulation, its pharmacokinetics are too slow to explain a pump from a single session. If it is a supplement marketed as a testosterone booster, the clinical evidence for those products is, at best, weak.
- A 2019 systematic review by Clemesha et al. in World Journal of Men's Health found that the majority of OTC testosterone booster supplements lack rigorous clinical evidence for efficacy.
- Sublingual testosterone does have faster absorption than oral, but peak plasma levels still take 30 to 60 minutes and are dose-dependent.
What did they get wrong (or right)?
The pump is real. Nobody is disputing that resistance training produces a pump. Credit where it is due: the video likely shows actual training, and hard training produces actual pumps. That part checks out without any product involved.
What is wrong, or at minimum misleading, is the implied causal link between "goticas" (drops of a presumed testosterone booster or TRT product) and the "pump absurdo." This is classic post-hoc attribution. The workout caused the pump. The drops may or may not have done anything measurable in that timeframe.
If the product being referenced is an unregulated supplement sold as a testosterone booster, the creator is amplifying a marketing narrative that is not supported by good evidence. If it is a compounded testosterone product being used without medical supervision, that raises a separate set of regulatory and safety concerns. Either way, attributing a dramatic physiological effect to a poorly specified product with 20,000 viewers watching is not responsible content.
What should you actually know?
If you are interested in TRT for legitimate hypogonadism, the clinical pathway matters. Diagnosis requires two fasting morning total testosterone measurements below the reference range, plus symptoms. The Endocrine Society guidelines (Bhasin et al., 2018, Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism) are explicit: testosterone therapy is for men with documented deficiency, not for performance enhancement in eugonadal men.
Products marketed as "testosterone boosters" in drop form, without prescription, are not the same as medically supervised TRT. They are not equivalent to testosterone cypionate or enanthate. Do not let gym content normalize self-administration of hormone-adjacent products based on a caption about a good pump.
- Get your levels tested by a licensed provider before considering any testosterone-related intervention.
- A regulated telehealth platform can order appropriate labs and interpret them in clinical context.
- Pumps are mostly about training intensity, hydration, carbohydrate intake, and nitric oxide pathways. Not drops.