It’s mostly because John Wayne died. That dropped the general T level precipitously, plus there are no more new movies starring The Duke, himself. Arnold, Stallone, Willis and Statham tried to hold the T level in place, but failed, although there was a brief surge, when Predator came out.
There are multiple reasons for declining testosterone includes: Pornography, Obesity, smoking, Microplastics like BPAand other androgen distruptors. Processed shit food. Lack of physical excercise to name a few
Dr. Travison did not say that obesity, sedentary lifestyles, processed foods etc were not decreasing testosterone levels, rather he stated that they were not solely responsible for the decrease in testosterone levels. Approximately 40% of the decline in testosterone levels was still unfounded after controlling for those variables.
I had low T recorded at 271. I found this guide that you guys might find useful. Following the guide i am now at 586 and wont be needing TRT just yet. Its called complete guide to testosterone by james francis
The question is, why isn't this the big question, posed by scientists, governments and media? It's as if the powers that be are comfortable with the decline.
Send me Your email and I will send you the congressional hearing that was held in 2010 where scientist warned Congress of the dangers and it has been completely ignored. You will be shocked at the data they presented from the previous decade
I'm surprised nobody is mentioning obesity. Not only can childhood obesity cause gynecomastia, but it also lowers testosterone, motivation, physical prowess, attractiveness to fit women.. Getting lean and healthy should fix most guys testosterone problems
It was mentioned and the studies looking specifically at the decline in mens testosterone excluded obesity as being the culprit. They corrected for obesity in other words. Obesity is a Cause of low testosterone but it is not the Cause of the significant drop seen in men over the last couple of decades
I haven't seen a boy hit puberty in over 10 years. No excessive acne, no voice cracking, no awkward lanky body changes.... It took about that long for the advice I gave to boys on the internet to change too. 2005 advice: "No, wait till you're 25 before you decide whether or not to take steroids. Get some training experience." 2016 advice: "No, don't have your dick n' balls removed."
I have thought of the nature vs. nurture element of T levels. Think of the domestic pig, that breaks out and grows tusks as soon as it is in the wild. If you have two twin brothers, and one works around a bunch of chain-smoking welders all day, and the other works in sales, would one have higher T than the other? It's almost like you have to physically adapt to survive around the welders. Who knows? It would be interesting if there was some way to study that empirically.
@@ScottyGMusic I've done a lot of welding and monitoring my blood work. Worked with crews of burly men and then also worked for years with crews of women doing office work. It makes an immeasurable difference. What makes you think otherwise? Welding exposes you to chemicals and heavy metals that could easily lower your testosterone.
@@mr.monitor. Thanks for the answer from your experience. I had thought of the flux chemicals after your reply. And it goes without saying that smoking is bad for you. My experience was only playing music in high school, and I got into the farm industry in my late twenties. I have no way of comparing the two environments and their effect on T; I only decided to get my T checked last year. It was decently high for 39 y/o. I think it possibly went up, based on physical appearance. Everyone who actually lasts in the farm business, seems to be pretty burly, so I had been curious if that's causation or correlation.
All good points and I have one more. Men’s testosterone levels go up around ovulating women. Birth control is prevalent and there are far fewer ovulating women around. Women are also attracted to softer less masculine men when on birth control than when not on birth control.
T levels go up when around ovulating women eh? *scratches chin* I think I'll hang around the feminine sanitary products section or something and see if it makes my bench press goes up
Very good point. I often switch between living in Europe where most women are on birth control and Japan where people use condoms instead of birth control and I notice the difference. Some scientific proof would be helpful though.
@@RandomGuyyy 😂🤣😂 Watch out for tampon sniffers in the gym! 😂 Ovulation actually starts a few days after menstruation and peaks 10 days after peak menstruation.
Psychosomatically unhealthy ideologies too. BTW, beer is more estrogenic than cannabis. Hops are* excessively phytoestrogenic. Edit: 'are', not 'is' (see asterisk)
Omg rippletits looking great!!! SS 5x5 gallon of milk a day randomly saw him mentioned on a fitness podcast I follow and looked him up ,had major flashbacks of 4chans /fit/ board 10 years ago
Plastic containers, cell phones, LAP TOP COMPUTERS. Keep in mind as well that lowered testosterone tend to cause increased testosterone sensitivity, and higher testosterone tends to cause decreased testosterone sensitivity. There are world class athletes with low T.
@@paulocorrea521 100% Total different feeling being in the country vs the city. You eat more but lack energy. You sleep more but are tired. Cell phones are creating a monster.
Chemicals in utero could be cause. Do you think world population size is causing humans to self regulate down testosterone? I’m pretty sure deer an bear populations tend to show less male development when they get overcrowded in isolated areas. ???
Modern vegetable oils have to be the main culprit b/c we've been directly ingesting them in ever larger amounts since roughly the 70's where this trend started.. No doubt there are other factors, and soy has been mentioned several times, but really any vegetable "oil" from plants that won't otherwise produce it by cold pressing really f*ck with not only hormones but metabolism in general. ETA: Someone else mentioned this, but Vitamin D is turning out to correlate also. Guess what also messes with those levels? That's right, PUFA from veggie oils..
Let a woman be in charge of a man and watch how fast he degrade. Ever wonder why they are making movies that were based upon strong witty men and replacing them with women? It’s all purposefully done. Weak mean (physically and mentally) are more likely to allow things to happen instead of preventing it.
Testosterone no longer correlates highly with reproductivity since impregnation by force is less common and because a Father's ability to provide maximal opportunity for a small number of children is not strongly related to his testosterone levels. Simply stated, lower T males now have an increased competitiveness to produce reproductively competitive children.
Yes and according to evolutionary biology he is right. Female back in thr day had sex with lots of man so the sperm count raise your chance to be the father. Thats why we have biger balls and penises than gorrilas for example because in those species onle the alpha copulate so no need for big balls just big muscles.
@@fabian13333 OK interesting, but what was your original reply again? It says 3 replies, but can only see mine and your latest. I think your first got shadowbanned.
@@TokyoTaisu Yes and according to evolutionary biology he is right. Female back in thr day had sex with lots of man so the sperm count raise your chance to be the father. Thats why we have biger balls and penises than gorrilas for example because in those species onle the alpha copulate so no need for big balls just big muscles.
Lots of reasons. The food / air / water isn't as pure as it once was, society as a whole isn't used to hard work, especially at a young age, overpopulation...... The list goes on.
Irony is in alot of ways its cleaner. Back in 1960, pre gmo. So everything was treated with pesticides. Lead in the paint, lead in gas. Asbestos was everywhere, and everyone smoked. That's all cleaned up and....we seem worse off? 🤔
@@williamw3501 eh, I mean, on paper I would agree. But "they" will never tell you what's REALLY in most of the food people buy in the supermarket. And that's just a fraction of the problem. The majority of modern society is just plain..... Softer / weaker.
@@dadbod488 or what's not in it. I read a research paper awhile back showing a massive drop in nutrient density in produce compared to crops over 30 years ago. I agree there are more than one cause, but one that everyone seems to over look is the use of birth control.
The real answer is because people started doing sets of 6 instead of sets of fhave.
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😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣
I'm blaming the 6g of creatine
true shit
*fah-ev
It’s mostly because John Wayne died. That dropped the general T level precipitously, plus there are no more new movies starring The Duke, himself. Arnold, Stallone, Willis and Statham tried to hold the T level in place, but failed, although there was a brief surge, when Predator came out.
Yeah, but Ryan Seacrest made it a wash
This doctor has saved my life. And I will always be grateful
Who is this doctor?
"They're turning the frogs gay!" ~ Alex Jones
Truth.
Too many fat women and feminist environments in our population. It’s causing a lack of sexual motivation and arousal in men.
:)
Haha good one.
The new tucker special shines a light on this.
I'd rather kill myself than watch Tucker
There’s estrogen in the drinking water because of women taking oral birth control. Municipal water reclamation doesn’t filter out pharmaceuticals.
it's actually mostly because of agriculture
That's true, but likely a secondary contributor when compared with plastics/pesticides
It's turning the frigging frogs gay! No seriously I agree with you.
I just like the fact that Rip uses the word “comprise” correctly.
How about his use of the word "testosterin"?
@@totallyraw1313 Like the accent and gravelly baritone, too
There are multiple reasons for declining testosterone includes: Pornography, Obesity, smoking, Microplastics like BPAand other androgen distruptors. Processed shit food. Lack of physical excercise to name a few
Dr. Travison did not say that obesity, sedentary lifestyles, processed foods etc were not decreasing testosterone levels, rather he stated that they were not solely responsible for the decrease in testosterone levels. Approximately 40% of the decline in testosterone levels was still unfounded after controlling for those variables.
I had low T recorded at 271. I found this guide that you guys might find useful. Following the guide i am now at 586 and wont be needing TRT just yet. Its called complete guide to testosterone by james francis
When I was a kid, the hippies told us to avoid industrial chemical and become one with nature. Maybe they were onto something with that part.
The question is, why isn't this the big question, posed by scientists, governments and media? It's as if the powers that be are comfortable with the decline.
They’re all for it, a submissive population is beneficial for them
Why care about what scientists, media and governments say anyways?
They're the ones doing it to us
Send me Your email and I will send you the congressional hearing that was held in 2010 where scientist warned Congress of the dangers and it has been completely ignored. You will be shocked at the data they presented from the previous decade
Microplastics
Plastic is going to be the new lead. Use to make baby teething toys out it before we knew how bad it was.
2:15 "...absence makes the heart grow fonder...". Our forebears weren't silly, they made pithy sayings that were easy to remember and spoke truth.
I'm surprised nobody is mentioning obesity. Not only can childhood obesity cause gynecomastia, but it also lowers testosterone, motivation, physical prowess, attractiveness to fit women.. Getting lean and healthy should fix most guys testosterone problems
It was mentioned and the studies looking specifically at the decline in mens testosterone excluded obesity as being the culprit. They corrected for obesity in other words. Obesity is a Cause of low testosterone but it is not the Cause of the significant drop seen in men over the last couple of decades
i heard it the other way around that obesity is increasing because declining testosterone
I honestly used to not be attracted to fit women until I got fit myself, might have some truth behind that
I haven't seen a boy hit puberty in over 10 years.
No excessive acne, no voice cracking, no awkward lanky body changes....
It took about that long for the advice I gave to boys on the internet to change too.
2005 advice: "No, wait till you're 25 before you decide whether or not to take steroids. Get some training experience."
2016 advice: "No, don't have your dick n' balls removed."
yeah, what happened to the acne? Dont see it much
Bro science is useful to explain this. There's simply less physical labor and more junk food.
Anyone know the name of the guest. I'm looking for a video where he talks.
The full podcast is available on: network.startingstrength.com
I have thought of the nature vs. nurture element of T levels. Think of the domestic pig, that breaks out and grows tusks as soon as it is in the wild. If you have two twin brothers, and one works around a bunch of chain-smoking welders all day, and the other works in sales, would one have higher T than the other? It's almost like you have to physically adapt to survive around the welders. Who knows? It would be interesting if there was some way to study that empirically.
I can assure you. Welding does not raise your testosterone lmao
@@mr.monitor. Maybe it doesn't, maybe it does. What is the basis for your argument? I want to hear your angle.
@@ScottyGMusic I've done a lot of welding and monitoring my blood work. Worked with crews of burly men and then also worked for years with crews of women doing office work. It makes an immeasurable difference. What makes you think otherwise? Welding exposes you to chemicals and heavy metals that could easily lower your testosterone.
@@mr.monitor. Thanks for the answer from your experience. I had thought of the flux chemicals after your reply. And it goes without saying that smoking is bad for you. My experience was only playing music in high school, and I got into the farm industry in my late twenties. I have no way of comparing the two environments and their effect on T; I only decided to get my T checked last year. It was decently high for 39 y/o. I think it possibly went up, based on physical appearance. Everyone who actually lasts in the farm business, seems to be pretty burly, so I had been curious if that's causation or correlation.
.... What??
Being told what too do ,not being in control Lowers testosterone.
5:19 The baseline levels comment is one of the most terrifying things I’ve ever heard. This is just f’d up.
All good points and I have one more. Men’s testosterone levels go up around ovulating women. Birth control is prevalent and there are far fewer ovulating women around. Women are also attracted to softer less masculine men when on birth control than when not on birth control.
That's interesting and makes sense.
T levels go up when around ovulating women eh? *scratches chin* I think I'll hang around the feminine sanitary products section or something and see if it makes my bench press goes up
@@RandomGuyyy Excellent bro-scientific conclusion, bro
Very good point. I often switch between living in Europe where most women are on birth control and Japan where people use condoms instead of birth control and I notice the difference. Some scientific proof would be helpful though.
@@RandomGuyyy 😂🤣😂 Watch out for tampon sniffers in the gym! 😂 Ovulation actually starts a few days after menstruation and peaks 10 days after peak menstruation.
These are A few factors in addition to endocrine disrupting chemicals.
Soy in the diet
The legalization of cannabis
Reduction of physical activities.
Psychosomatically unhealthy ideologies too.
BTW, beer is more estrogenic than cannabis. Hops are* excessively phytoestrogenic.
Edit: 'are', not 'is' (see asterisk)
Biggest one is lack of vitamin D IMO. What most men have in common these days are low D levels.
Weed being legal has no effect moron
It's because of running as part of your workout.
Too much soy
Omg rippletits looking great!!! SS 5x5 gallon of milk a day randomly saw him mentioned on a fitness podcast I follow and looked him up ,had major flashbacks of 4chans
/fit/ board 10 years ago
Is this dude in a submarine?
A weak society is easier to control
Some societies have rites of passages from boys to men.
Is the answer #405 squat sets of fahve, doctor?
Plastic containers, cell phones, LAP TOP COMPUTERS. Keep in mind as well that lowered testosterone tend to cause increased testosterone sensitivity, and higher testosterone tends to cause decreased testosterone sensitivity. There are world class athletes with low T.
Let's see: EMF's, environmental endocrine disruptors, excess artificial light, lack of sunlight, plus many others.
Radiation is truly the most overlooked feature of oxidative stress.
@@paulocorrea521 100% Total different feeling being in the country vs the city. You eat more but lack energy. You sleep more but are tired. Cell phones are creating a monster.
It's the water, turning all the frogs gay
I blame sumo deadlifting, tight pants and taco bell
Chemicals in utero could be cause. Do you think world population size is causing humans to self regulate down testosterone? I’m pretty sure deer an bear populations tend to show less male development when they get overcrowded in isolated areas. ???
Modern vegetable oils have to be the main culprit b/c we've been directly ingesting them in ever larger amounts since roughly the 70's where this trend started.. No doubt there are other factors, and soy has been mentioned several times, but really any vegetable "oil" from plants that won't otherwise produce it by cold pressing really f*ck with not only hormones but metabolism in general. ETA: Someone else mentioned this, but Vitamin D is turning out to correlate also. Guess what also messes with those levels? That's right, PUFA from veggie oils..
Just stfu. This is so false
And people still don’t know that the oil in “vegetable oil” is from seeds.
But the girls are developing much earlier…so something is up.
The elite design to make men weaker and women stronger
Estrogen and abuse
The girls are much fatter nowadays. That causes too-high levels of estrogen.
Trap bar deadlifts send T levels into a tailspin
Not sure which is cause and which is effect, but always a bad sign.
Let a woman be in charge of a man and watch how fast he degrade. Ever wonder why they are making movies that were based upon strong witty men and replacing them with women? It’s all purposefully done. Weak mean (physically and mentally) are more likely to allow things to happen instead of preventing it.
Fact.
Watch what happens to a country when run into the dust by women and soy boys with man boobs. Feminism ruins societies.
This is done by design
How much testosterin does Rip take per week?
3 sets of 5
@@mcmuffin1258 Is that 3 sets of five or 3 sets of fahve?
Testosterone no longer correlates highly with reproductivity since impregnation by force is less common and because a Father's ability to provide maximal opportunity for a small number of children is not strongly related to his testosterone levels. Simply stated, lower T males now have an increased competitiveness to produce reproductively competitive children.
Is rip saying that monogamy lowers T?
Yes and according to evolutionary biology he is right. Female back in thr day had sex with lots of man so the sperm count raise your chance to be the father. Thats why we have biger balls and penises than gorrilas for example because in those species onle the alpha copulate so no need for big balls just big muscles.
Yes and one wife per man used to be for the plebs while higher ups would have multiple wives.
@@TokyoTaisu I mean before civilization in pure hunter gatherer society
@@fabian13333 OK interesting, but what was your original reply again? It says 3 replies, but can only see mine and your latest. I think your first got shadowbanned.
@@TokyoTaisu Yes and according to evolutionary biology he is right. Female back in thr day had sex with lots of man so the sperm count raise your chance to be the father. Thats why we have biger balls and penises than gorrilas for example because in those species onle the alpha copulate so no need for big balls just big muscles.
Lots of reasons. The food / air / water isn't as pure as it once was, society as a whole isn't used to hard work, especially at a young age, overpopulation...... The list goes on.
Irony is in alot of ways its cleaner. Back in 1960, pre gmo. So everything was treated with pesticides. Lead in the paint, lead in gas. Asbestos was everywhere, and everyone smoked. That's all cleaned up and....we seem worse off? 🤔
@@williamw3501 eh, I mean, on paper I would agree. But "they" will never tell you what's REALLY in most of the food people buy in the supermarket. And that's just a fraction of the problem. The majority of modern society is just plain..... Softer / weaker.
@@dadbod488 or what's not in it. I read a research paper awhile back showing a massive drop in nutrient density in produce compared to crops over 30 years ago. I agree there are more than one cause, but one that everyone seems to over look is the use of birth control.
It's because of the Trap Bar. Trap Bar lowers testosterone.
TRT will do, easy claps, just talk to your doc, you can raise it naturally yes, but you can't beat aging
It's because people are fatter.
Stick to your lane Rip!!
This convo had a chance to be interesting 🙄
Politics 🤣
Psychosomatically unhealthy ideologies ARE a problem.
Imagine installing female software on male hardware. That's a male feminist for you.
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Mark Rippetoe pushing conservative political BS while pretending it’s science. No wonder he’s a joke in the fitness community these days