I have stumbled upon this highly interesting news item and I thought to show an interesting graph so you get a better understanding of exactly why the sperm count or the testosterone of modern men have declined over all these years because I have mentioned that in a few of my recent videos that men are not as testosteronous now as they were back in the day.
So I'm going to start reading.
Sperm count zero.
A strange thing has happened to men over the past few decades.
We've become increasingly infertile.
So much so that within a generation we may lose the ability to reproduce entirely.
What's causing this mysterious drop in sperm counts and is there any way to reverse it before it's too late?
I'm gonna scroll down here a bit.
Obviously for our purposes I've talked more about testosterone but this is highly linked with each other.
Also speaking about linked I will link this particular article below so you can read it in its entirety.
I mainly wanted to show you this particular graph.
So we can see here mean total sperm count in millions and it started very high in the 1970s and then fast forward to 2010 we have a bit lower to say at least.
And then on the other side we have global plastics production millions of metric tons and that goes in the opposite direction.
So we can see that there is a correlation between plastics productions and a reduce in sperm count and for our purposes a reduction in testosterone.
So we can read a bit more in the article.
I met Anna Maria Andershon, a biologist whose research has focused on declining testosterone levels.
And quote, there has been a chemical revolution going on starting from the beginning of the 19th century, maybe even a bit before, she told me, and upwards and exploding after the Second World War, where hundreds of new chemicals came onto the market within a short time frame.
Suddenly a vast array of chemicals were entering our bloodstream, ones that no human body had ever had to deal with.
The chemical revolution gave us some wonderful new things.
New medicines, new food sources, faster and cheaper mass production of all sorts of necessary products.
It also gave us, Anderson pointed out, a living experiment on the human body, with absolutely no forethought to the result.
When a chemical affects your hormones, it is called endocrine disruptor.
And it turns out that many of the compounds used to make plastics soft and flexible, or to make them harder and stronger, like BPA, are consummate endocrine disruptors.
Phthalates and BPA, for example, mimic estrogen in the bloodstream.
If you're a man with a lot of phthalates in his system, you'll produce less testosterone and fewer sperm.
If exposed to phthalates in utero, a male fetus' reproductive system itself will be altered.
He will develop to be less male.
And I am deeply sorry if I'm completely butchering these terms.
But anyway, I just need to shamelessly plug our own shakers here.
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So that was one of the things I thought when I started up this supplement company that, you know, we will avoid anything that is bad.
So BPA had to go simple as that.
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Anyway, point being that try to avoid BPA as far as possible.
And BPA can be found in water bottles and food containers and sales receipts.
Tailates are even more common.
So this fine article it continues for a good while.
What I would like to say also, and I will make a separate video on this later on because it's one of the most important and one of the most commonly asked questions that is how to redress a low testosterone or how to increase a testosterone.
The short answer is just take the glorious pill.
Try to live as good and high thumbs as possible.
Train hard, focus on the heavy basic compound movements.
That's the absolute first step you have to take.
So it's not about aesthetics.
It's not necessarily about even getting strong.
It's about maintaining a good mental health.
So if someone says, oh, you go to the gym because you want to look good and everything, looking good is just a side effect of it.
You go to the gym to optimize your health.
So keep that in mind.
Then obviously try to avoid plastic that contain BPA, for example.
Try to eat as good as possible.
So anyway, I just thought to share this interesting article with you all and I hope you have a high testosterone day ahead.
