0:00:00 - 0:00:20 So I had this ongoing conversation with my wife and uh the there are many topics uh that we have ongoing conversations about and that's dressing it up quite a bit. They, they're mostly me ranting like a madman and she's very patient and uh supportive and tries to get me back down to earth. But one of 0:00:20 - 0:00:47 these topics is that, uh I swear it, it's like every time you see um a generation Z couple or like high school graduation pictures from people or like somebody goes to the prom or, you know, youtube thumbnails, you name it whatever. Go to the mall. Are there malls anymore anyway? Um You see these couples 0:00:46 - 0:01:15 and I was telling my wife, I swear it looks like they're, it's like a mature young woman, a young woman, you know, but a woman um and like a baby guy like a baby. And um you know, real like no, no fuzz on their face, no stubble, no muscle at all. They just look like, you know, the wind would blow them 0:01:15 - 0:01:42 over and really soft face and uh it's like it creeps me out, you know, it doesn't look right to me and uh my wife, you know, just kind of looking at me like I'm crazy. So I made this post uh in January on my blog called The Hormonal Apocalypse. And, you know, it's intense. But the title, but um I can 0:01:42 - 0:02:07 pull it up here. I gotta, you know, there's lots of statistics and sources, but it's not too long. The outcomes of this are enormous. They're absolutely enormous. But um these are problems affecting both men and women. You probably know a lot of women who are struggling with infertility, uh and other 0:02:07 - 0:02:28 issues, but no one's really talking about it in terms of either for men or women, in terms of what's causing this. Is it a big deal? Should we be trying to do something about it? What can be done and you kind of have to hit the internet and hit the peer reviewed literature to see research studies about 0:02:28 - 0:02:51 this and, and you probably have to go back to 2008, 2012 before the whole woke wave hit because now no one can really do research on anything where there's an actual gender difference. Um cause you know, the government's not gonna give you money for that and you won't get very far in the academic field 0:02:50 - 0:03:11 by doing that. But um I, like I said that was in January, but there's been this ongoing conversation as of late with my wife and I, because I saw something I don't remember and I was just like, am I going crazy? Uh And she kind of looked at me like it was. So I went ahead and hit the, the inter webs 0:03:11 - 0:03:35 and I pulled up some pub med peer-reviewed studies and what I pulled was the following. So we'll start with the facts. Facts are that since the 19 seventies, there have been researchers who've been looking at testosterone in men and since then they've seen a consistent uh 1% per year decline in testosterone 0:03:34 - 0:03:54 rates of, of men, not due to aging, controlling for age. So younger people have every year, they'll, they'll like an 18 year old, whatever you want to fix the age to, it doesn't matter, they'll have a 1% less testosterone than people of that same age the year prior. And the patterns holding it's been 0:03:54 - 0:04:13 holding since the, the 19 seventies. So that's one factoid. The other factoid is what um measurement of testosterone, I forget the units. Um But this is a blood measurement and there are different tests and everything else and there's a range, it actually doesn't matter what number we start with, but 0:04:13 - 0:04:38 this is inside the range of normal. Um It's about in the middle and um so that's another fact. And then what I've done here, this column is just math. This is just um comparing what this 1% reduction per year is compared to 1975 or 76 in this case. Um So that, that should say 1976. But off by year it 0:04:38 - 0:04:58 doesn't matter. And I'm a programmer by trade. So off by one, that's my bread and butter. Um So we're just, we're just saying what percent is this number of that? And that's what goes into this column. OK. Um Now, finally, this last column, it's a little more, a little bit more complicated. So I saw 0:04:58 - 0:00:00 other research studies. Uh I was asking the question for an individual man, what kind of testosterone decline can they expect to see over the span of their life? And what does that curve look like? And uh if we kind of round out the numbers, a conservative estimate is 1% per year, ironically, right? 0:00:00 - 0:05:39 Um So that's what society is seeing for people of the same age each year. But for an individual man who's one year older each year, it's also about 1%. It's actually one point point 6% according to one paper I saw, but we're gonna go ahead and round down just to make it more conservative. So, so we don't 0:05:39 - 0:06:09 get accused of being alarmist here. OK. So these are all measured facts so far. Now, here's the crazy thing. All right. So we look in 1976 I was born in 1983. OK. So um 00 and that 1% per year it starts around 40 according to the literature. Um Yeah. OK. So let's just roll with that. So this is like 0:06:09 - 0:06:37 your age equivalent of an 18 year old, um compared to an 18 year old from 1975. So because your testosterone rate is roughly consistent as a man until around 40. Uh This is according to the literature, I actually seriously doubt that. But whatever, let's just go with what that one paper said. Um Just 0:06:36 - 0:07:03 because I'm trying to illustrate an idea here and not get into the nitty gritty. Um, so age adjusted, you're no longer in the 18 to 40 range. It's a consistent 750 ish. You're, you're at 41 and then 42 and then 43. Ok. So this is going to freak you out a little bit, but it also explains the baby faces 0:07:02 - 0:07:17 and you will not more and more people are talking about this, but it's not like you're gonna see this on the nightly news, but anybody can make a spreadsheet like this and you don't have to be the one doing the huge research studies. It's already been done. It's out there. You can look at it or you can 0:07:17 - 0:07:38 just go to the mall, but not for long because they're all closing down. So, as we cruise here, uh I was born in 1983 and the age equivalent for, for an 18 year old in 1983 is already 48 which is nuts, right? Uh Just testosterone wise. Now this age is not like you're gonna see like, uh, that Benjamin 0:07:38 - 0:07:58 button, like some guy getting really old and shriveled, um, in real time that it's, we're talking about testosterone, the effects of testosterone aren't just anti-aging, although that's one of them. But, um, you'll look really young because there's a curve. Right. And old people when they're old men 0:07:58 - 0:08:18 , when their testosterone drops off, they age faster but it has the same effect before it kicks in. Uh, so you look younger, right? Or less, less masculine. You look more boyish, I should say not younger but boyish, right? Because you don't have the facial structure, the muscle structure, the, the facial 0:08:17 - 0:08:49 hair and so forth. Ok. So, um, that's already a pretty significant jump, right? You'll, you'll feel that there's a difference between 7 5700. But as we cruise through to the nineties kids, the nineties kids, it's pretty nuts. Um, so now they're at like 83% 79% of their however old they are today. If 0:08:49 - 0:09:21 you were born in 1999 you however old you are, you have 79% of the testosterone that a man born in 1975 would have had. Do you get that? That's a really big deal and it gets a lot worse. Ok. So if you're Twin Towers, baby, you're still kind of close to that 78. Um, once you get up to like 2010, this 0:09:21 - 0:09:43 level of testosterone that you will have is an 18 year old max lifetime testosterone that is low enough that you can be prescribed testosterone replacement therapy. At 538. You, if you get a blood test, you go to an endocrinologist, there are endocrinologists that will prescribe you testosterone because 0:09:43 - 0:10:06 at 538 if you started higher than that and you came down to that, you're gonna feel way more tired, you're gonna have way less initiative to do anything. You're gonna have way less drive of all forms. We'll keep this RG um, you'll be way less interested in women. Um, and on and on and on, you're not 0:10:06 - 0:10:37 gonna sleep well. And when you don't sleep well, all these other things go wrong and become more difficult. That was in 2009, 18 year olds in 2009, started at that level. Ok. So it's like 70% of a 1975. Uh, a man born in 1975 age equivalent, 74 years old, 74 years old. That's a big deal. So when you 0:10:37 - 0:11:12 see back in 2009, you look at an 18 year old, that's the equivalent of a 74 year old as far as the testosterone he's got. Now we fast forward to 2023 where we are today. 62% 62% of the testosterone of someone born of a man born in 1975 age equivalents is 99. Uh sorry, 88 is 88. Ok. Now let, let me ask 0:11:12 - 0:11:40 you like what 88 year old man is going to go start a business? What? 88 year old man is going to um, you know, scour his locale to find a wife. What 88 year old man is gonna do anything in a day without being tired. You know, it's like my one thing I'm gonna do today is uh my laundry and then I'm gonna 0:11:39 - 0:12:03 take a nap and no offense if you're an octogenarian and you might be one of these, you know, I wear my Iron Man watch and I run everywhere I go or whatever types. But by and large, like that's gonna be a problem right now. Here's the funny thing is like, you, you extract the effects of low testosterone 0:12:02 - 0:12:23 from someone who's nearly 90 years old and you impose them on someone who's, uh, let's say 2223. What do you think you're gonna get? Well, look around, that's what you get, that's what you get. Ok. So why are all these guys sitting in their mom's basement playing video games all day? Why do they refuse 0:12:23 - 0:12:44 to get a job? And when they do it's just a minimum wage joke job. And uh they just complain like, like, uh a little kid would, about everything instead of going out and getting it done. This is why, this is why it's funny because see, I'm an older millennial. That's my, uh, age category. But I watch 0:12:44 - 0:13:06 the, the Boomers and the Gen Zs fight each other or the younger millennials uh, online in news, comment boards and things and you know, the Boomers, they, they tell the Gen Z people that they're lazy and the younger millennials that they're lazy and, and their lives, their lives stink because they won't 0:13:05 - 0:13:28 actually work hard. And the younger people complain that the, the game has changed and it's a lot harder and actually they're both completely 100% right. Um The game has changed and it is harder, but young people are freaking lazy and young men in particular, they have a real problem with this. Ok. And 0:13:28 - 0:13:47 why is it? This is why? So before we get to what can be done about it, if we look forward it for another 10 years, I mean, it just keeps getting worse and we're going down to 50%. So you wanna know why more and more men can't have babies. In fact, more and more men can't get aroused to even get close 0:13:46 - 0:14:11 to that if people are pointing to a lot of things. But this is uh amongst the primary factors. I would seriously doubt if it is not the number one factor. So why does this happen? Oh, incidentally too. We've got um a much uh a large uh a fast growing number of uh female pedophiles. This is a real issue 0:14:10 - 0:14:40 . So a lot of school teachers, for example, female school teachers are getting busted with, uh, high school kids, males and, uh, and so on. Well, um, when your peer group looks five years younger than you and you are 18 or 19. So you, you sort of, you grew up through adolescence with, um, with males 0:14:39 - 0:15:01 who were delayed by five years or so and how they look, um, that's gonna be a problem. Right. All the boys in your class look like they're, you know, you're a senior in high school, they look like they're in eighth grade and, and then is it a surprise when all of a sudden you turn 19 or 18 and you still 0:15:01 - 0:15:21 like boys who look like they're in eighth grade. Not that it, uh, I'm not defending this at all. I'm saying there are big, big cascading consequences that come out of these problems that, uh, I think people ought to be talking about and trying to do something about. And I seriously doubt society will 0:15:20 - 0:15:45 , uh, if you look at, um, ancient civilizations which have collapsed, which is all of them, you'll see a strong pattern. One of the indicators that a society is headed for collapse is that they, uh become more androgynous, which means they, they cease making distinctions between the sexes. And so, um 0:15:45 - 0:16:07 , I don't think people see this as a bad thing per se. Um, or at least not enough people even care to notice it uh, for some kind of societal change to be expected. However, as individuals, as parents, you should be really worried about this. And the question is what can be done about it. And for this 0:16:07 - 0:16:27 , um I I recommend that you hit the internet and do some research. There are researchers out there who have been looking at this scientists and they have theories and evidence about the sorts of things that have been causing this. And unfortunately, it's not one smoking gun like, oh um there's this one 0:16:27 - 0:16:54 particular plastic in this one very specific situation that um is causing this problem or hey, don't buy this one brand of deodorant. It's not like that. It's, it's a, an endemic, a result of a confluence of factors. Plastics are a big part of it. Um which it's not just all the plastics that our food 0:16:54 - 0:17:16 comes in or pretty much everything at the supermarket is sold in which it used to be glass, right? Or paper. It's also in the air that you breathe. I saw a paper not too long ago about microplastics that are in the air and some astronomical amount of microplastics is inhaled, are inhaled. Uh If you live 0:17:15 - 0:17:38 in almost every place where humans live in the United States, for example. Uh so there are a lot of things in the food we eat, that's, that's a huge part of it. Um Also a lot of people who live in places that have municipal water, particularly if it's recycled, that's a huge issue because things like 0:17:37 - 0:18:02 birth control uh pills that, that women take hormonal birth control pills. Um they urinate those out tho those uh hormones and then they get in the water and then men drink the water. So there are things like that that have a very low um uh a very uh your body is extremely sensitive to many things like 0:18:02 - 0:18:25 this where you just don't have to consume very much to have an effect. And so as it grows in the environment and uh is more widespread in the food we eat. So, processed foods are another one that are mentioned. Um You're gonna have cascading issues so long story short. Um First, let me ask, do you think 0:18:25 - 0:18:47 it's a big deal to have approaching to, to approach 50% of the testosterone of uh an equally aged man in 1975? Because there are an awful lot of people who pay a lot of money and go through a lot of inconvenience. A lot of men who do all that to take testosterone, they buy it and then they, they, their 0:18:47 - 0:19:11 various transmission methods, but it's worth it to them because it's such a big deal. It makes such a difference in their lives. And so we're, we're unleashing a um a population of 18 year old males who are suffering from all those same effects of low testosterone. What's it worth to prevent that or 0:19:11 - 0:19:30 to correct it? So, is it worth buying fewer foods that are packaged in plastic. Is it worth trying to grow more foods? Is it worth moving to a place where you could do that because you can't do that if you're in the suburbs and you have a, a quarter acre lot, right? Is it worth it to move to a place 0:19:30 - 0:19:54 where you're not inhaling terrible air? I remember, uh, I lived in, in Utah for about seven years while I was in grad school. And um I could not believe how many sick young kids there were all the time. And that's another confluence of issues. But um there are, there, there are serious air quality problems 0:19:53 - 0:20:20 in the, in the um in the two most populous counties in Utah, the two valleys there. And um people opt to live there even though the odds of their kids getting asthma are through the roof, they're through the roof in those areas, but people choose to live there anyway. Um So, and then they're sick all 0:20:20 - 0:20:39 the time, which causes issues as well. So the, the question is, what, what is this worth? Can you pay attention to it? Is there anything you can do about it? So it's a really big problem and I hope more people start paying attention to it because uh you know, if your 18 year old has testosterone levels 0:20:38 - 0:21:02 in the mid four hundreds and they end up not doing anything with their lives. Uh Jeez, why is that a surprise. Right. So, um, it, I didn't pull the numbers and I'm sure 460 is, I, I would expect that that's still way high for an average woman. So women have way less testosterone than men. But, you know 0:21:02 - 0:21:23 , as those levels approach one another. Um, yeah, why are you gonna be surprised if there's not so much difference between the two? Right. And, and the choices that they make, they make and the way they behave, the way they see life. So, um, anyway, things to think about. I hope that's, uh, eye opening 0:21:23 - 0:21:23 .