The Golden One - Marcus Follin - The Testosterone Drop in Western Men Since the Introduction of Plastic - An Interesting Graph
Aired: 2019-01-16
Duration: 05:31


=== Declining Sperm Counts (01:59) ===

[00:00:00]  Greetings Laddingtons.
[00:00:02]  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.
[00:00:30]  So I'm going to start reading.
[00:00:33]  Sperm count zero.
[00:00:35]  A strange thing has happened to men over the past few decades.
[00:00:39]  We've become increasingly infertile.
[00:00:41]  So much so that within a generation we may lose the ability to reproduce entirely.
[00:00:48]  What's causing this mysterious drop in sperm counts and is there any way to reverse it before it's too late?
[00:00:57]  I'm gonna scroll down here a bit.
[00:00:59]  Obviously for our purposes I've talked more about testosterone but this is highly linked with each other.
[00:01:05]  Also speaking about linked I will link this particular article below so you can read it in its entirety.
[00:01:12]  I mainly wanted to show you this particular graph.
[00:01:19]  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.
[00:01:35]  And then on the other side we have global plastics production millions of metric tons and that goes in the opposite direction.
[00:01:47]  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.

=== Avoid BPA (03:31) ===

[00:01:59]  So we can read a bit more in the article.
[00:02:04]  I met Anna Maria Andershon, a biologist whose research has focused on declining testosterone levels.
[00:02:10]  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.
[00:02:29]  Suddenly a vast array of chemicals were entering our bloodstream, ones that no human body had ever had to deal with.
[00:02:38]  The chemical revolution gave us some wonderful new things.
[00:02:41]  New medicines, new food sources, faster and cheaper mass production of all sorts of necessary products.
[00:02:47]  It also gave us, Anderson pointed out, a living experiment on the human body, with absolutely no forethought to the result.
[00:02:56]  When a chemical affects your hormones, it is called endocrine disruptor.
[00:03:01]  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.
[00:03:13]  Phthalates and BPA, for example, mimic estrogen in the bloodstream.
[00:03:16]  If you're a man with a lot of phthalates in his system, you'll produce less testosterone and fewer sperm.
[00:03:23]  If exposed to phthalates in utero, a male fetus' reproductive system itself will be altered.
[00:03:31]  He will develop to be less male.
[00:03:34]  And I am deeply sorry if I'm completely butchering these terms.
[00:03:38]  But anyway, I just need to shamelessly plug our own shakers here.
[00:03:43]  They are, of course, made in Hungary and made BPA free.
[00:03:47]  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.
[00:03:55]  So BPA had to go simple as that.
[00:03:58]  And before you ask, no, we only ship to Sweden as it is right now, but I will update you all when we start shipping internationally or whenever we find a solution for that.
[00:04:09]  Anyway, point being that try to avoid BPA as far as possible.
[00:04:13]  And BPA can be found in water bottles and food containers and sales receipts.
[00:04:18]  Tailates are even more common.
[00:04:21]  So this fine article it continues for a good while.
[00:04:26]  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.
[00:04:41]  The short answer is just take the glorious pill.
[00:04:43]  Try to live as good and high thumbs as possible.
[00:04:47]  Train hard, focus on the heavy basic compound movements.
[00:04:51]  That's the absolute first step you have to take.
[00:04:53]  So it's not about aesthetics.
[00:04:56]  It's not necessarily about even getting strong.
[00:04:58]  It's about maintaining a good mental health.
[00:05:01]  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.
[00:05:09]  You go to the gym to optimize your health.
[00:05:12]  So keep that in mind.
[00:05:14]  Then obviously try to avoid plastic that contain BPA, for example.
[00:05:19]  Try to eat as good as possible.
[00:05:21]  So anyway, I just thought to share this interesting article with you all and I hope you have a high testosterone day ahead.
[00:05:30]  XOXO.