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All right fellas this is really important get your testosterone levels checked It's very important for the last 5 decades or so.

We've been observing, this is well known, observing testosterone levels declining on a consistent rate.

We're also looking at fertility has declined.

In fact, the man today has half the sperm that his grandfather had.

Testosterone, of course, is a hormone that helps with drive, confidence, muscle mass, fat loss, cognitive performance and function, low testosterone, very unhealthy.

At the very least, find a baseline that you're at so you can test it later on and compare it.

But many of you may have low testosterone and don't realize it.

This reminds me, actually I wanted to ask Doug this, would you look up the growth of hormone clinics over the last 5 years?

I know on the show, predicted a while back that, you know, it reminded me of the green rush when marijuana clubs hit the market and we saw that like just explode.

And I wanna see how many clinics are now out there when we first started, because it seems like this is, And I feel like this is why we're gonna see it explode, is because this is becoming more and more.

It's not common knowledge yet, but it's getting there.

Well, what's crazy is that this has been observed for like 5 decades, that we've seen testosterone levels consistently decline every year.

And now there's lots of speculation as to why, some people say it's lifestyle, we're moving less.

You can't really reduce it down to a few things.

There's certain chemicals that are estrogenic or have effects in the body.

Okay, if the 3 of us had to check like the top 5, how would you order them?

Oh, I would 100% order chemicals as number 1.

I wouldn't have done this before, but the more and more I learn about these chemicals and how they're combined.

Oh my God, there's 1 in particular, I can't remember the name of it, I gotta find it.

There's 1 in particular that was banned in Europe and not banned here and it's still being used and it's been shown, I'm gonna pull it up

It wreaks havoc with the sex lives of adult male frogs, emasculating 3 quarters of them and turning 1 out of

He's always the alarmist, like super crazy version of what may potentially be some truth.

So yeah, so that was in water, like in some of the drinking water, is that where they found it?

Yeah, so It's a herbicide and it's our food and water supply.

And the European Union banned it, but it's not banned.

There's so many different chemicals that can affect your hormone system.

Yeah, because we're exposed at ridiculous levels now.

I mean, I don't have an argument, really.

My theory is I think diet and lack of movement has to be up

Because you see this across the board you see this with athletes, too They test the stock show levels of athletes.

They still have good testosterone But it's been affected.

So they've actually they've actually Separated athletic men and compared them.

There's not great studies, but there are some studies that show.

Like I said, are, are we are producing half the sperm that a generation or 2

Like if you go down in sperm, your fertility is also gonna go dramatically down.

Maybe, yeah, they could be connected for sure.

But I don't know if you would produce necessarily less sperm because you're not as active, maybe your sperm wouldn't be as healthy.

Maybe it's not a causation, but I would say there's a pretty direct correlation.

But like fertility, this is like a big deal.

If we really, if we mess with our, at this rate, I don't remember what the statistics show, but at this rate, I think within a couple of generations, like we're not gonna be able to make kids anymore.

And the reason why I'm saying this is, is, you know, go get your testosterone levels checked and there's a range that you're going to get what's considered common.

The common range is like this really low to really high.

You want to be towards the upper range of that, especially if you're in your 20s.

And optimizing that makes a big difference in your behaviors and how you feel.

They are connected, but I don't know, man, it's, it's wild.

When you look at the data and how long we've known that this has been happening and how nobody's really been.

I wouldn't have, I wouldn't have guessed you to say that chemicals is number 1.

I mean, that's, that's, that's pretty wild to me.

And, And I know like where the backlash on that would be is like the studies on like all these chemicals Individually by themselves right like and it's what you're not accounting for which there is no studies for is something that takes an account All of these different chemicals that we are constantly either breathing in, touching, sleeping in, rubbing in our skin, and what that does potentially, right?

It's like, they wouldn't get past FDA, wouldn't be approved for usage if that, that by itself at high levels wasn't safe and okay to use.

But what no 1 is doing is saying like, oh yeah, well, what do you put in your hair?

And if you're already unhealthy, how much of a more massive impact that makes on your immune system's a bit more compromised.

And So having like all these other external factors come in and go through the population with

Well, being fit and healthy allows your body to detox these chemicals faster and easier too.

So you're likely to build up some of these loads.

But I mean, for sure, the fact that people are less active, getting less sun, probably worse sleep, in their diet is worse is definitely up there.

So, I mean, you know, if I saw a study that said that, that was more of an impact in chemo, would I, would it, would it shock me?

I think that we would all agree on that for sure.

I mean, that 1 for me is like a no-brainer, but that's also because of my personal experience.

I have felt that dramatic difference because I went through somebody who's synthetically taken lots of hormones and then not taking them and then gone through the natural dip afterwards and then felt what that felt like and then also felt what it felt like to dial the diet in and strength train and like what a dramatic, and I also tried all the different supplementation and I've tried to limit all the chemicals.

I've done a lot of that stuff to try and do my best of naturally increasing it.

And to me, nothing felt more than eating healthy, high protein, good amount of healthy fats, good calories, and strength training,

Well, strength training helps with testosterone in 2 ways.

It raises testosterone consistently if done right.

Of all forms of exercise it does it the best.

And then it also does this kind of double whammy where it upregulates androgen receptors.

That's where the testosterone attaches to.

So you get a rise in testosterone plus the testosterone that you do have becomes more potent in your body because of increased androgen receptor receptors because of more muscle mass.

So it's the single most impactful thing you can do aside with sleep and diet.

Now the chemical stuff, you know, the reason why that's a hard 1 to focus on is because it's like, where do I start?

But lifting weights, eating good, getting good sleep, those alone can have hugely protective

Strength, diet, and sleep are the only 3 to that.

You could literally measure instantly, right?

It's the difference like you, you get pores, like measure someone's testosterone after goodnight's sweet, right?

8 in the morning, they wake up, what their testosterone levels are now intentionally have terrible sleep the next day, measure it, and you'll see a drop.

Do the same thing with, you know, starve your body of nutrients for a day, test it, see what happens, feed it appropriately, test it, see what happens.

Same thing goes with strength training, no strength training whatsoever.

And there's this, that's why those make the top 3 for me because they're that dramatic that you could literally remove them or manipulate them in a single day and see a fluctuation on that?

Yeah, well, with food it would take a little longer, but the point you're making is true.

Like if you work out and you eat right and you sleep right, let's say you test your testosterone levels today, and then for 60 days you get really good sleep in comparison to what you were getting before, your diet's a lot better in comparison, and you're lifting weights appropriately.

I say appropriately because you could overdo it, right, or do it wrong.

But you're lifting weights appropriately so you're stronger at the end of 60 days significantly.

Then go get your testosterone levels checked, and it's almost guaranteed you'll see an improvement.

It's almost guaranteed you'll see better total levels, better free testosterone, and then you can't measure this necessarily, but you should have increased density of androgen receptors.

By the way, did you guys, there's a study that's being circulating right now.

When we started the podcast, we identified the fitness industry at large, the, the, the, the marketing behind it, the supplement selling, make everybody feel bad about themselves, buy our shit, here's terrible information, side of the fitness industry, as the enemy that we were trying to really counter and fix because they weren't helping anybody.

But what's becoming more and more evident is there's another enemy that's coming out against people's health.

And this one's a little bit more way more nefarious, scary and nefarious and cunning.

And they play a long game and they're it's so it's repeating itself.

It's weird so I'll read you this the title of the study that is making its its rounds right now and First off the title itself They're already using they're already politicizing the study to try to make it sound a particular way.

And this is what's been flying everywhere.

Testosterone administration induces a red shift in Democrats.

So let me break it down for you, because this is not the first study to show that.

There's actually multiple studies that show not what that title said.

I want everybody to just relax for a second, because that's a politicized title.

They're really smart with how they twist shit.

But what the study found has been found in previous studies.

First off in the study itself, Hardcore Democrats, hardcore Republicans give them testosterone.

People who are in the middle, who kind of lean a little bit and will label it as left, tend to go more towards the right when they're given testosterone.

Now, what people need to understand is it's not necessarily, I was a Democrat, now I'm a Republican.

What it is is when they give men who like more regulations, more government safety nets, less kind of free market type stuff, that kind of stuff more like quote unquote, safety from big brother.

They move towards that with low testosterone you give them testosterone then they move towards more Well, we should be more free We should let free markets kind of thrive a little bit more I don't think you should be monitoring us that much for our quote-unquote safety We should be able to protect ourselves, that kind of stuff.

Now they've labeled it left and right, and I guess you could loosely do that, but really what it is in a nutshell is that testosterone is a feel good, confident, empowering hormone.

Anybody who's ever been low testosterone versus high testosterone can tell you that that's the case.

So people who go from low to high testosterone become more likely to want less control and smaller government.

Or, if you look a little deeper, are less harder to manipulate.

So they paint it as like, it's a red shift and testosterone does this or whatever.

Like that doesn't necessarily mean they're gonna vote Republican.

You could also vote Libertarian or vote for more, I guess, small government Democrats, if any of them exist these days.

But people advocating for their own health.

That also kind of strengthens What I've been talking about and people have called me some, you know conspiracy.

I've gotten so much Negative stuff in the past and now people are starting to come around where I've said man I'm starting to see more and more articles demonizing Fitness,

you know what night and I thought that movement kind of was gonna die off like to be very honest like I thought that was just at the time was somewhat relevant to kind of like throw shade at some, I guess, I don't know, like the, the big conservative movement or whatever.

And like, people advocating for opening up, you know, a lot of the lockdowns and all that kind of situation.

I thought it was relevant then, but to see it now pop up again and to put that out there, it's like, to us it just sounds absurd, right?

And to a lot of people listening, it sounds absurd.

And just, you're just going to dismiss it.

And then you're going to see it come up again later.

And it's like this constant like gaslighting in a day.

Like they're just going to inundate you with this idea.

You have to look at, Cause the best marketers, the most, I guess, the, the smartest, most cunning, manipulative marketers in the world, work for politics.

They just studying it for decades for long time.

They're really good at getting people to kind of, to change their behaviors or to be scared or angry or hate people.

So we've got to piece it all together, right?

So we're getting articles that say things like, lifting weights makes men more aggressive.

Gyms are these unaccepting places, they're fat phobic.

This 1 said, the far right's obsession with fitness was this other article now that's making it.

Then you combine that with fat is beautiful, health at any size, kind of like promoting unhealthy body image in the opposite extreme with obesity and stuff like that.

And if you piece all that together, what you start to see is they just want us to be very healthy.

Yes, they don't want us to be very healthy because they can't sell us as much stuff, they can't scare us as much, they were not gonna buy as many pharmaceuticals, and especially men, because men, you know, if you really weaken men, boys, it's easy to take over a whole movement or whatever.

So that's kind of, that's, it's pretty alarming.

Everybody's like, oh, this is a conspiracy.

No, man, look at, like, it's starting to happen.

And like this study again, it's so funny, the way that they worded it.

Like they're already trying to make people demonize testosterone, you know what I mean?

The part that I always have a hard time with this is like who is they?

who is, I think anybody who, who falls under

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