Testosterone is on a generational decline, why do you think that is?

[deus_ex_sisyphus]

[zeitgeist057]

Testosterone is a male hormone that has many effects, most are seen as positive effects, such as energy, bone density, muscle mass, confidence.

However, too much testosterone can cause issues in these exact same areas. Why is it in decline?

People are not getting outside as much, they don't interact with others (offline) as much, they don't eat healthy, get enough sleep, or exercise enough. Testosterone, much like other hormones in the body, is produced due based on resources available and a need. In the past, life was more physically demanding, there was more interaction which meant a person needed to be more assertive to succeed. Testosterone would help with that.

But now, high levels of assertiveness can viewed as aggression, it's becoming a maladaptive trait. It's not rewarded, but punished. Combine that with toxins in our food. Not just fast/junk food, but crops which are sprayed with toxic chemicals, leeched off into our water supply. It surrounds us with all the fuels we burn, the materials we produce and wear on our skin, in everyday products like car seats or blankets. Humans are overrunning and poisoning the planet and themselves in the process. We are choking out all life, including ourselves.

All this garbage leeching from the environment into our bodies has a negative effect. Low testosterone, infertility, autoimmune disorders, allergies, to name a few.

[adam6402]

It's the internet that's causing it, remove the internet and people will start being people again. Everyone is spending so much time indoors on electronic devices and now you can literally live without ever needing to leave the house.

Also, because of the internet/social media, it’s now a bad thing to be masculine. Because that somehow offends the 0.01% of our population who are weird losers and think being whoever/whatever they want is more important than the lives of everyone else around them.

Stop giving the weirdos the loudest voices, bring back shameless bullying, and start being a fkn man.

[TenderFantasy]

Probably from the chemicals in our food and water systems. Also, maybe more sedentary lifestyles? Also, things may be a bit more stressful and complicated now than in the past. Those are my theories on it.

[hopegirly]

Majority foods but it is also related with the reduction of the masculinity on males because of friendships, agenda, drugs, ideologies... such as these things
(It is only my opinion)

[IceCreamSandwich]

Less time spent outside. Less time spent exercising. Worse quality of food.

Possible solutions:

Make cities more walkable and less pollution so people can be outside more (and let their kids outside more) without risk of being hit by a car or stepping in garbage.

Increas wages so that people can work fewer hours and have more time to exercise and do outdoor and/or active social things like dancing or going to the beach.

Also people can afford healthier food choices and have time to cook homemade meals rather than eating out with higher wages, so they will also eat healthier.

[adam6402]

Cities are more walkable than ever before. There's always new developments in bike and walking paths, standards for pollution are a lot more strict, and air quality in most western cities is better now than it was 50-80 years ago.

If you increase wages, people who want to get ahead in life will still work the same hours they do currently and just make more money, and the losers will go home earlier and spend more time doing their looser indoor activities. But that's never going to happen because just magically raising global wages at the click of a finger is so stupidly unrealistic. You can't inflate the wages without causing inflation across everything else.

And then you go completely off the rails by saying that more money will mean more people will cook their own healthy food? No. More money means more people will start taking the easy option of eating out.

[IceCreamSandwich]

@adam6402 do you know anyone who needs to use a budget? The 2 biggest reasons people eat unhealthy food is because it's cheaper and it's faster. Given affordable options and time to utilize them, most people will naturally eat healthier. Given affordable options and time to utilize them, most people will also naturally spend time outside and in social and physical activities. Believe it or not humans are kind of wired to enjoy things that are healthy for us, and intuit when we need to do them. We're animals, not machines. Kids don't need to be taught to play when they're bored or eat when they're hungry, they just need alsome reasonably healthy options to choose from. If their parents don't have energy to cook after both working all day and still can't afford healthy pre-made options, what do you expect them to eat?

[adam6402]

Ok regarding the food thing I get your point now. But if you give someone more spare time, they're just going to do more of what they currently do. A teenager who spends his spare time gaming during the school term only spends more time gaming when it comes to the school holidays. Believe it or not, humans are wired in many different ways, including ways that allow the internet to have so much influence on us. Nowadays kids grow up on the internet and it literally has more power over them than their parents do. I don't think money is the problem, it's the internet. That sounds like a super boomer thing to say but it's true. Look at kids growing up in poverty in third world countries. They have nothing, in a lot of situations barely even drinkable water, yet they grow into hard working masculine men who know their role in society.

[adam6402]

It's because we've been living in good times, it's created the weak men, and soon we're going to hit hard times because of it.

[IceCreamSandwich]

@adam6402 yeah that's true, once you've already gotten in unhealthy habits it's a lot harder to change that, even with better new options. I don't think the internet is really the problem though, more it's the internet being one of the easiest cheapest options for things like communication, "socializing" and entertainment. It's not bad to play video games, it actually has several benefits, some of them the same as reading a book or playing memory or puzzle games. It's when that's the only thing you do for entertainment that it becomes a problem. Maybe you're right and limiting some things could help too, but I dont think anything should be limited and definitely not totally banned without providing a better alternative.

When I lived in the states, in my neighborhood there were no sidewalks in some areas, and there was always some trash around outside. Where I live now it's definitely not perfect either, but at least I can walk to a gym or a park without being 3 feet away from traffic. There's also not been any needles in the grass at the parks here, which is nice if you have a child or a pet who likes to run around. Good times should be an opportunity to create great men. It's bad priorities that lead to weak or bad men.

[adam6402]

@IceCreamSandwich you're right there, I'm not against using the internet or playing video games, but as you said, it needs to be in moderation. The problem there is that video games and social media are literally designed to be as addicting as possible, leading to uncontrolled overuse. These things should never be and never will be banned, but they need to be controlled and it's up to the parents to do this.

Ok I've grown up in New Zealand which is considered relatively clean and green so I've never really experienced anything like what you've described.

[ProbablyClueless]

Sedentary lifestyles, processed foods, poor mental health, and the realization that everything we know was built on a lie; is it honestly any wonder that our testosterone is dropping?

Millennials have had our entire existence packaged and marketed to us as part of a curated subscription service that consistently denies us of the perks we bought the subscription service for. Most of us don't know how to do anything different so we keep going, hoping that something will change. We live vapid, self obsessed lives, drowning in debt.

[hahahmm]

Soy boys drinking soy milk. It was found to reduce t levels, I believe. There's estrogen in plastics people use to eat with. Estrogen in some of the meat. Plus maybe if you mentally try to act like a woman you start becoming less of a man & there's a lot of that going around today!

[GuyAnswersGirls123]

I suspect at least some of that is correlated to the rise in obesity. The gradual declining trend in testosterone levels in the US started around the 80s to my understanding which is also when obesity rates started to gradually rise.

[Anonymous]

There’s a lot of reasons. Diet being one of them. Overweight. Certain drugs, stress, certain medical conditions. A lot of plastics contain certain substances that lead to lower testosterone levels. Aging also lowers testosterone. Maybe the increase of feminine men. Men being told to be more emotional, feminine. Lack of masculine friends could also decrease testosterone levels. Studies show men who are around more masculine tend to have an increase in testosterone.

[ImHere22]

Probably all the f*king microplastics previous generations pumped and continue pumping, into the global environment. Cancer rates are also increasing. Did you know that? Yea.

[Phoenix98]

Lifestyle

Food, diet what they consume.

The environment

People not working jobs like manual labor much anymore.

Sleep

[coachTanthony]

All those damn video games these kids are playing.

[andreasderjuengere]

Is it testosterone,

or is it

that less candidates are found to be worthy of it?

(obesity, attitude, ''culture'' and such)

[strateguy632]

because it isn't in decline. same healthy range each generation.

[Anonymous]

Terrible Diet & Bad sleep are the major factors

I heard somewhere that a 67 year old from 2000 has same testosterone as a 22 year old now (on an average)

[OddBeMe]

I would peg it more on technology than “libtard pussies versus WW2 vets”. Lol

[Astarlessnightsky]

Too many softening chemicals in too much plastic.

[FenixG45]

Environmental pollution

[Imbraylen]

I think we all know why that is.

[In_Trance]

chemicals