0:00:00 - 0:00:19 OK, I wanted to share some quick thoughts. Uh Some of these things will be rehashes and hopefully you're not sick of hearing it, but I think this is a new facet. It's worth sharing. Uh I'll try to be brief here. So let's reconstruct how I got here. Uh The, the short story. Anyway, uh from the topic directly 0:00:19 - 0:00:00 at hand, I was curious to see how a Google search would represent. Uh some form of the question. Why do high school boys look younger today than they used to? Um Maybe I'll give some backstory as to how it came to that. But, um one reason I was looking at this and here's important point. Number one, 0:00:00 - 0:01:17 I don't know if you've noticed this, but certain questions are absolutely curated. The answers to certain questions are absolutely curated when you search them. And sometimes when I'm curious about this, I'll come to a question whose answer I know, maybe from my scientific background, maybe from research 0:01:16 - 0:01:39 I've done in the literature, maybe from some other thing. And I try to focus on questions that have uh pretty clear answers that, that people ought to know. But typically these things are politically or socially charged. And so I'm interested to see how things go and maybe I'll, I'll switch words around 0:01:38 - 0:02:06 and change, maybe the contra posit or something of whatever I'm looking at just to see how rigged it is. And sure enough, um it's, it's very rigged. Um So for example, an example of this along um gender lines is if you google things around attractive men versus Googling things around attractive women 0:02:05 - 0:02:27 , what you'll find is that it's much easier to get to what you're what you're actually actually asking for with searching for attractive men. Whereas if you search for something related to attractive women, like like something like what's what, what do men look like on a 1 to 10 attractive scale, right 0:02:27 - 0:02:47 ? You'd expect that there are people out there who for some reason have put together 10 pictures or sets of pictures from 1 to 10 and the search engines will take you there very quickly for men. But for women, it's this huge thing of, oh, it's just a social concept. There's no such thing as 1 to 10 for 0:02:47 - 0:03:10 women anyway. Um So you can see things like this, you could look up scr crime statistics for different demographics, you can look up all sorts of things and see this. And so I like to keep appraised of this because language co opting information control, these are very significant problems. But uh anyhoo 0:03:09 - 0:03:33 , so I searched this for a guest delayed onset of masculine traits in men. And uh if you follow the stuff that I've been up to, you know, from time to time, I'll, I'll post something on my blog or a video about uh testosterone declines. Now, now there are scientists um in, in the most prominent ones 0:03:32 - 0:03:52 , female. Uh there are scientists who spent their careers looking at this endocrinologists who have studied how these effects are taking place over time. A long story short, they've documented a 1% drop in l testosterone per year. And one of the many scary highlights of this research is that, for instance 0:03:51 - 0:04:20 , because of this residual decline, young men, forgive the imprecision here. Young men around 21 today have the same testosterone rates on average as 62 year old men today. So that's how fast it's declining. And if you don't think that that has an effect, well, you're probably very young but if you're 0:04:20 - 0:04:48 older and you remember, um, the average quality of men 20 years ago, 30 years ago, maybe longer than that ago, uh, you'll, you'll, you'll potentially agree that, uh, something is very wrong and you'll see a whole lot of explanations for a whole lot of things today that are jacked up. So this should be 0:04:48 - 0:05:12 a pretty easy answer. Ok, why do high school males look a lot younger today than they did 1020 30 40 50 years ago? Well, if you dig, you'll find some people saying yes this is for sure. True. I'm 75 years old. And, uh, you know, here's some pictures from my lifetime. Here's my high school class. Here's 0:05:12 - 0:05:32 my son's high school class, uh, senior class, here's my grandson's senior class or people who say, like in my high school, they had pictures of every senior class from 1932 until now. And there's an absolute trend starting around the seventies. Uh, you see things like this but they're rare because the 0:05:32 - 0:00:00 vast majority of information that, that search engines will send you to will say that um, there is no difference. It's just social factors or whatever, like you're just imagining it or it's because of good things, but we have better nutrition. So people look like they're aging slower and blah, blah, 0:00:00 - 0:06:18 blah. And it's also the shift to, it's not just a male situation, it's just society in general. Everybody is better off. Hm. Ok. If you dig, you'll get to a study which I'm going to post in the description here or I'll pin it on a comment. You should look at it. Um, the summing it all up, it turns out 0:06:18 - 0:06:41 that there's all kinds of chemicals and, um, this is a peer review paper. Um, there are all kinds of chemicals in the water and the food in the air. Um, but most of it is what you consume water and food and it, it turns out that, that they've done many, many, many, many many, many studies on these chemicals 0:06:40 - 0:07:07 and the government only regulates like five of them, which is a paltry share of the, the, the full list. And in fact, the government puts them in water. Um, for instance, and uh sure enough these things cause all kinds of fertility problems. And we know that's an issue for men and women today. Um, all 0:07:07 - 0:07:35 kinds of um puberty problems in males. So this is, they have studies on humans, they have studies on nonhuman mammals on fish. And um so anyway, it turns out that it, it massively disrupts uh testosterone and estrogen in men and women. And uh a lot of the problems for women are s are uh concentrated 0:07:34 - 0:08:00 on fertility and the problems with men range fertility and testosterone levels, which which obviously significantly affects how you look, right? Masculine features are what we're talking about. They develop um after the onset of puberty in men, just like feminine features develop in women uh after the 0:08:00 - 0:08:30 onset of puberty and um in females, I should say uh as they become women. So um so this is a pretty cut and dry case. And so that, that's a little scary that, that, you know, we live in this sea of data, unprecedented amounts of information at unprecedented uh low cost and yet so much of it is not uh 0:08:30 - 0:08:54 true and so much of it is buried beneath uh all kinds of things that normal people would not know to go through right to get to the answer. Anyway. Um One of the reasons I decided to hop on here and make this video is because ok, now we're gonna get to the last two things. I think I'm gonna talk about 0:08:53 - 0:09:15 . We'll see if there's more one. I know that when you start looking under the under the rug where all the dust is swept, you start to see this overwhelming pile of problems and say like, man, I, there's so much out there. How do I know what I should worry about and where I should focus my limited resources 0:09:14 - 0:09:44 . You know, I think things that absolutely impact your children's ability or your ability to have Children. That's a big deal to live a healthy life. Um Not just I'm gonna live an extra three years, kind of healthy. So I die when I'm 93 instead of 90. But, but actually be a functional male versus not 0:09:44 - 0:10:09 or to be a uh a fertile female or not. That's a, that's a big deal, you know, that's a big deal. So it turns out that even though these chemicals are kind of in everything today, there are practical ways that aren't overwhelming for you to do something about it. Now, the best thing you could do is to 0:10:09 - 0:10:31 move to a place where you have water that comes out of a well. So I mentioned that governments put chemicals in the water that, that cause these effects they include chlorine. So if you live, if you get municipal water odds are, is treated with chlorine, you could taste it if it is. For the most part 0:10:30 - 0:10:53 , odds are that they add fluoride to the water. A lot of places out west they get water from the mountains and, um, that can be fluoridated naturally. So I used to live in Provo. They would send Utah so they'd send us, the city would send us these notices. I think it was annually of the water quality 0:10:52 - 0:11:16 . I have no idea if they do this anymore. But Provosts water comes out of the mountains. It's naturally, it contains more fluoride than most cities have, uh, who add it and Provo adds even more into it. So I'm not really sure what, what that's about, but that's what they do. Um, and then that's in addition 0:11:15 - 0:11:35 to things like plastics, I'm just sort of summing a bunch of different chemical categories but plastics or any place where the water is recycled, which is quite common east of the Mississippi. So if you get, uh, if you have some sort of water treatment plant, it is really gross, but they're recycling 0:11:34 - 0:11:57 the sewage and you're, you're drinking it in your city water, probably not a place you want to live. Right. Any of those categories. Um, or if you know, according to this paper, uh, all of those, those categories of places to live, they're gonna be your, your drinking water is gonna going to contain 0:11:57 - 0:12:18 lots of these things. And the thing with, with um hormone disrupting chemicals is that they are effective at very low doses. So, hormones are serious things. So look, if the option is to move to the countryside, by the way, a lot of these things are also in the air. So if you live in a city, you're breathing 0:12:18 - 0:12:42 plastic all day long. It's tiny, they're called microplastics. You're not gonna notice it um in your actual breathing or daily uh circumstances, but you're going to experience these long term effects of reduced fertility and um lower testosterone if you're male, reduced fertility for both and lower testosterone 0:12:41 - 0:13:03 for men at an earlier age. So, um and then, and then this will be most noticeable for boys who, who uh are going through puberty because it's not gonna work, right? They're not gonna actually go through full puberty. That's the thing. It's not just a delay, it just never happens fully. It's, it's messed 0:13:03 - 0:13:30 up on multiple levels. And that's why you get these soy boys. That's, that's what uh it's, it's the environment that's what's causing this. So, um anyway, um that's overwhelming to tell someone, well, you need to sell everything and move, sell your house, change your job, move. And um you know, I told 0:13:29 - 0:13:47 you years ago that that it was time to move and hardly anyone did anything about it. And I told you that it was going to become harder and that the cost was going to get higher and that happened and I told you it's gonna continue to happen and it's continuing to happen. And so now a lot of people are 0:13:47 - 0:00:00 saying, well, I can't do anything about it now because I would lose so much money selling my house and then say getting a new mortgage at a much higher interest rate or buying a house at a much higher cost of living. Now, it wasn't five years ago but a much higher cost of living place. Um, yep. But, 0:00:00 - 0:14:31 and guess what the consequences are gonna continue to stack and the situation is just gonna get worse when you finally do it. But I've repeated that at infinitum. So here's the good news for this particular consequence. It's not exactly equivalent, but you can get maybe 90% of the benefit. I'm not pulling 0:14:30 - 0:14:54 that number out of thin air. Uh, several of these chemicals. That's the effective, uh, rating for what, what this does. But I'm, I'm suggesting you buy a water filter and not just any specifically a reverse osmosis water filter. It's got to be that can't just be this, uh, lower cost Brita filter. You 0:14:53 - 0:15:15 screw onto your faucet. It's an actual system. They don't cost a ton. I've installed several of them. If you're handy, it's no big deal. If you're not, it's probably impossibly difficult for you. But whatever life is hard so you can get these things installed or you can install them yourself. You can 0:15:14 - 0:15:36 buy them at Lowe's or Home Depot is not a big deal. Um, it'll make your water taste way better. So that's nice. You'll notice that right away, the, the cartridges aren't cheap to replace, but you don't have to do it very often. Um, you probably don't want to put this on your whole house because those 0:15:36 - 0:15:54 cartridges will last very, very little time. But normally what people do is they just have a little, you might, may have seen them before. A special faucet by their sink or something. And, um, that, that is the filtered water. And so for your drinking water, that's what you do. So you just, you buy that 0:15:54 - 0:16:20 , you install that, you're 90% there. Now you're still showering with this so you're still exposed to the air. But it's, it's a, it's a, it's a huge positive change for not that much cost. Ok. And final point with this, this is a wonderful example of, um, this principle of good choices, having cascading 0:16:19 - 0:16:45 positive consequences. It's, it's impossible to know all of the good that's gonna come out of a good decision. It's also impossible to know all of the bad that's gonna come out of a bad decision. But what we always have is enough to know which one's better. We always have enough to know which one is 0:16:45 - 0:17:08 better. It's available to us. We can figure it out with the resources that are made available that we have at hand. And the problem is when folks make decisions, instead of saying which one's better, I'm going to go for it 100%. They say, well, how much better is it? Yeah, that doesn't seem better enough 0:17:07 - 0:17:30 to justify the change. You know, five years ago when I said, hey, move to a rural area if you don't live in one more recently, but still years ago when I said it's time to find a place that you'd like to be in the event that everything falls apart. People are like, wow, that's a really extreme thing 0:17:29 - 0:17:52 . I'm not doing that. I could, it obviously would be better. It would be better if my kids could go outside and play without me having to stand there armed in case hoodlums come by or whatever. Um, it'd be better to have a garden. Sure. I mean, that'd be nice. But, you know, we're comfortable here. I 0:17:52 - 0:00:00 just, I don't feel like a change. I'm used to my routine. Whatever. I like my neighbors. I live by my brother in law and he's cool. Whatever. Well, I don't want to face my wife. I don't wanna face my husband on this. They're gonna fight me on it. My kids don't want to change high schools or friends, 0:00:00 - 0:18:41 whatever the excuse was. Well, now you hear your kids are a couple years older, your sons look like girls probably have a host of other issues and it's your fault. If you heard the message years ago and the consequences are rolling out, it's your fault. So now what are you gonna do about it? And you're 0:18:41 - 0:19:06 gonna find this happens, wave after wave, after wave going forward? You know, I just saw while I'm on here slightly related but basically different topic. Um I don't, I don't make videos where I'm like, let me go back to the things I said and show you how it's right. Show you the evidence that these 0:19:06 - 0:19:30 things have happened. That's, that's not something I'm going to make my job. That's, that's a little too much. Uh, someone else can do that if they'd like to whatever. But, um, I just see them and I move on but there's news article after news article after news article, if you've been paying attention 0:19:29 - 0:20:02 , you see them the most recent one the other day, the Democrats in the house decided to, uh, propose a 1000% tax on guns. I'm not making this up. You can look it up. I've heard this idea before, heard it years ago, years and years ago in a slide show. It's on this channel. It's called when the figs appear 0:20:01 - 0:20:26 . I'm sorry, when the leaves appear on the fig tree, summer is at hand, something like that. And, um, it's right there. Higher taxes on guns and ammo. So, um, my wife asked me, uh, do you think this is gonna go through. I said, don't know, don't care. You see, this is another principle is, people don't 0:20:25 - 0:20:51 realize if folks can get away with just proposing insane things we're already done. That's in that case, there's no going back. It's just a question of how long it takes. Right. No one's gonna pay $20,000 for a rifle. That's no normal person is going to do that. They're already outrageously expensive 0:20:50 - 0:21:12 . A nice, a nice rifle anyway, in, in the ammo that if I'm surprised by anything, it's that they didn't go for the ammo first because, uh, maybe that's coming next. But, but a huge tax on the rifle only stops people who don't have them yet. You put a huge tax on the ammo. You get everybody who's already 0:21:11 - 0:21:39 got one and I know there are a lot of people who have a truckload of ammo in their basement somewhere. Um, in some cases. Ok. Fine, whatever. But in others AM o doesn't last forever. It, it can corrode the, the, um, the primer system can stop working. Um, it's, that's not a, a foolproof solution and 0:21:39 - 0:22:01 again, it doesn't help anybody who doesn't have it already. But, you know, bullets costing a dollar or more a piece. That's a great way to cut down on how many people have them or, um, creating artificial shortages, which they were doing a few years ago by issuing these enormous contracts to the private 0:22:01 - 0:22:31 manufacturers anyway. Uh, maybe one more thing for today and I need to move on with my day. I have a lot to do um, medical decisions. This is gonna end up being a full blown. Here's what's coming next video and I don't want to do that. But, um, well, medical decisions is another one that I told you about 0:22:30 - 0:22:53 . And, um, and then the COVID vaccine requirements came along uh, in so many places in so many ways, but now there are states, there was a state recently and I can't remember which one it was, but a state recently said that they're revoking religious exemptions for vaccine requirements for schooling 0:22:53 - 0:23:15 . And of course, parents are up in arms and they're fighting it. But you know, do you wanna be in a place where significant changes to the way you'd like to live? Your life are subject to the capricious whim of a bunch of politicians, the current crop, whoever they are. So if you live in a state where 0:23:14 - 0:23:34 that's on the docket, maybe you should move, especially if you're one of the many people who are not going to homeschool their kids for whatever reason, cuz cuz when it comes down to it, your choice is gonna be subject your kids to these things that you don't think are a good idea and you have your reasons 0:23:33 - 0:23:56 or you have to move, right. Do you want to do that last minute? In, in like a sudden burst or do you wanna get your ducks in a row because the longer you wait on these things, the harder they get. And I'm not sure how much clearer I can say that and it's falling on deaf ears. But, oh, well, see, the 0:23:56 - 0:24:16 consequences are going to hit you whether you listen to me or not. So, um, and I shouldn't say listen to me, listen to reason. Those aren't the same just to clear that up. But you, you know, you don't need a guy telling you, hey, if you're in a state where people are hostile to the things that are important 0:24:16 - 0:24:36 to you, maybe you should move to a different state or if you can't just know that this is on the horizon and prepare yourself however you can, even if that's just mentally. Uh I'm in a place where this is where I'm supposed to be. I know that, but the place I live does not have the ideal demographic 0:24:35 - 0:24:58 in my book. Um, I don't think any place does at this point, at least for my standards. But, you know, there are a lot of issues, uh, with places. So you kind of have to just think about that. But I'm on a, well, I got no problems there. Uh, we have very clean air here except for when there are forest 0:24:58 - 0:25:18 fires, which is also a manmade problem, but not in the way that those people will tell you. Uh, I, I always wonder now we're really ranting uh, the feds spend billions and billions and billions of dollars per year on firefighting and put that in air quotes because at least around here it seems like all 0:25:18 - 0:25:43 they do is let it burn. But, um, I wonder how much they'd have to spend to deploy a redneck briga brigade out into the woods. Um, to just say, look, we've cordoned off this, this grid and we want anybody who wants to, to come cut down any dead standing timber and haul it out of the woods and we'll pay 0:25:42 - 0:26:01 you this much per cord over these five days or something. And for pennies on the dollar, if that, they could clear out these forests of all the, the dead standing logs and they don't do it. And then they could just say whoever wants free firewood is right here, come pick it up and that's, that's a win 0:26:01 - 0:26:17 , win, right. But whatever, all right, testosterone is important. And if you're in a place where you're not on a, well, maybe you should get a reverse osmosis water filter. See you.