This article is from 2007, but you can find others citing studies with similar findings evidencing that average baseline serum testosterone levels in men have decreased at an alarming rate, approx. 1% per year since the 1980's. Do the math on that.
You can look around and just tell this is the case. You can go to any high school and take a look at the current baby faced crop of senior athletes on the football team and compare them to the photos of the hulking players from the 70's and 80's on the locker room walls from past teams who have strong jaws, broad shoulders, sport thick mustaches and look like they're 35.
IMO, one of our major problems is that strong men in society seem to be fading away. They are becoming more passive in their households and refusing to take leadership responsibilities. We see a crazy amount of limp wristed white liberals taking up radical female causes and marching in pvssy hats and talking about the "war on women". If we're being honest, I think everyone can see that there is an outright assault on masculinity and men in general. I am not claiming this is some vast conspiracy, but at what point do we raise awareness and try to get back to setting men on the right track?
This is actually pretty alarming to me. The article cites obesity and decrease in smoking as contributors, but there has to be more to it IMO.
https://www.reuters.com/article/health-testosterone-levels-dc/mens-testosterone-levels-declined-in-last-20-years-idUKKIM16976320061031
You can look around and just tell this is the case. You can go to any high school and take a look at the current baby faced crop of senior athletes on the football team and compare them to the photos of the hulking players from the 70's and 80's on the locker room walls from past teams who have strong jaws, broad shoulders, sport thick mustaches and look like they're 35.
IMO, one of our major problems is that strong men in society seem to be fading away. They are becoming more passive in their households and refusing to take leadership responsibilities. We see a crazy amount of limp wristed white liberals taking up radical female causes and marching in pvssy hats and talking about the "war on women". If we're being honest, I think everyone can see that there is an outright assault on masculinity and men in general. I am not claiming this is some vast conspiracy, but at what point do we raise awareness and try to get back to setting men on the right track?
This is actually pretty alarming to me. The article cites obesity and decrease in smoking as contributors, but there has to be more to it IMO.
https://www.reuters.com/article/health-testosterone-levels-dc/mens-testosterone-levels-declined-in-last-20-years-idUKKIM16976320061031
Quote:
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A new study has found a "substantial" drop in U.S. men's testosterone levels since the 1980s, but the reasons for the decline remain unclear. This trend also does not appear to be related to age.
The average levels of the male hormone dropped by 1 percent a year, Dr. Thomas Travison and colleagues from the New England Research Institutes in Watertown, Massachusetts, found. This means that, for example, a 65-year-old man in 2002 would have testosterone levels 15 percent lower than those of a 65-year-old in 1987. This also means that a greater proportion of men in 2002 would have had below-normal testosterone levels than in 1987.
"The entire population is shifting somewhat downward we think," Travison told Reuters Health. "We're counting on other studies to confirm this."
Travison and his team analyzed data from the Massachusetts Male Aging Study, a long-term investigation of aging in about 1,700 Boston-area men. Data from the men were collected for three time intervals: 1987-1989, 1995-1997, and 2002-2004.
While a man's testosterone level will fall steadily as he ages, the researchers observed a speedier decline in average testosterone levels than would have been expected with aging alone.
