Record Low Levels of Testosterone and Smaller Average Penis Size in Western Men Cause for Alarm
by JdN longevity specialist and science writer G.V
G.V. has a background in longevity and fitness, and has written freelance on medical science for decades for a variety of different print and online publications.
His work has been featured in the Occidental Observer, on Taki Mag, the DS, on the Unz Review, as well as in mainstream newspapers like the Daily Telegraph (Britain’s most prestigious broadsheet paper). Although he is a based and “red-pilled” libertarian, he has been featured on American and British television, Netflix, the BBC and in mainstream print media.
His article below provides concrete evidence of what Tucker Carlson brought up many items when he was on Fox News Channel:
American men are seriously low-t, and are tolerating insults, crimes and degeneracy which “in the olden days” would have led to fistfights, riots, lynchings, or even armed revolt in more two-fisted generations.
Negro, with no provocation, accosts and berates a white man on the NY City subway as a “white mutant monkey” as his little son looks on.
There were about 3,000 lynchings in US history, and a third of them were of white men: for rape, molestation, or being horse or cattle thieves.
The businessman Leo Frank of Atlanta, Georgia was lynched in 1915 for the rape and strangulation of a 13-year-old white girl, Mary Phagan. Participants in the abduction and lynching, who were justifiably alarmed by the probability that, between lawyers and bribes, Frank would go free, included the actual sheriff of Cobb County, where Mary had grown up on a farm; the former governor of Georgia; and the then Speaker of the Georgia House of Representatives.
No real man back then would let Frank get away with killing the 4’9″ Mary Phagan, who had also been an exemplary and loving daughter, was a beautiful girl as well with auburn-blondish hair, and had been a fine employee as well at Frank’s pencil factory.
Chivalry in Southern culture had simply demanded that her rape and murder be avenged. “Tolerance” was a dirty and negative word back then, and inaction was unthinkable for our high-testosterone and manly ancestors.
Southern manhood and honor demanded Frank’s execution. When his New York money and connections kept delaying his death for two long years, Georgia’s men said “enough is enough” and ACTED.
Enjoy…
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During the 1960’s young men and women were healthy.
The term “curvy” when used to refer to a woman’s body implied voluptuousness – not fat….and “athletic” when describing a man, certainly didn’t refer to someone juiced up on steroids and suffering a body dysmorphic disorder….
A mentally ill man who thinks he is a woman or someone who wants to chemically alter their body to prevent puberty is not the only form of dysmorphia.
Using steroids to build 25-inch biceps is also a sign of deep-seeded emotional pathology.
While you might not be over-compensating for a smaller-than-average brain, the fact that the vast majority of bodybuilders are willing to forego life after 50 for adulation expressed by members of the SAME sex, has to tell you something’s amiss.
The sort of bodybuilding that requires men to abuse their bodies by injecting them with hazardous anabolic steroids has as much to do with health and fitness as transgenderism has to do with sexual health.
BOTH are pathologies, or illnesses, and indicators that society has lost its way.
Fitness health is the ability to crank out 50 push-ups on command, touch your toes into your 60s and pull yourself or your loved ones onto a sea wall in case of a drowning emergency.
Pumping out 40 to 60 push-ups in a minute and a dozen or so chin-ups before breakfast was the norm when I was a young man, and having issues with one’s general health or with one’s blood sugar and testosterone levels was not even something we thought about.
Today though, the same certainly can not be said for the young, the middle-aged, and elderly.
Society is sick, and getting sicker.
Societal pathology is no longer only evidenced anecdotally through the people you see down at the bus station or on skid row, but has become societally measurable and quantifiable.
Okay, so how best can we measure, let’s say, the health of a human male.
Let’s start with what makes men be men. Testosterone does, and we now see a cataclysmic drop in the testosterone levels of western men, of men like you and me.
…in the sorts of fellas we interact with on a daily basis – our friends, relatives, the cops and firemen, even ourselves.
A half-century ago ,men had testosterone levels TWICE what they are today.
The first big drop in hormone levels occurred sometime after the war (WWII), though it was hardly precipitous at first.
The slight drop in T-levels could be explained by the fact that the aggression to fight the world’s wars was no longer needed, as well as the fact that people began eating processed foods. Then there’s the fact that the very best men were killed off, leaving behind the wealthy and privileged, the indigent, the mentally defective, and the sickly, who by virtue of their status in life have lower testosterone.
This is why one finds so many homosexuals in Marxist movements – where people are mentally unwell and physically unattractive, as well as at the very upper financial echelons of society. Think of the nasty British aristocracy where there are more homo-or bisexuals than heterosexuals.
The next big drop in T-levels was after the sexual revolution, where people TALKED about sex more, but had sex FAR less, because monogamous relationships meant sex is available on most nights, whereas it was being auctioned off at the weekends by the promiscuous just once a week.
The more likely one is able to have a “one-night stand,” the less likely that person is going to have a monogamous relationship – relationships were sex is partaken of far more frequently.
An average guy, who is in a relationship with an average gal, is going to have sex far more frequently than a Don Juan who gets it, if he is lucky, after a night out once every few months.
So testosterone has dropped not just because of the foods we consumed but also because of the sorts of relationships people had – more and more “one-night stands” –now and then — and less committed, monogamous relations with sex several times a week.
Across the board, between 1979 to 2020, testosterone levels declined in adolescent and young adult American men by almost 40%, according to results presented at the 2020 American Urological Association Virtual Experience.
https://www.urologytimes.com/view/testosterone-levels-show-steady-decrease-among-young-us-men
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Testosterone levels show steady decrease among young US men
The decline in total testosterone was observed even among men with normal body mass index.
From 1999 to 2016, testosterone levels have declined in adolescent and young adult men (AYA), according to results presented at the 2020 American Urological Association Virtual Experience1.
“Overall male testosterone decline can be attributed to multiple etiologies. The United States has an aging population with older males exhibiting lower testosterone levels. Furthermore, overall population has an increase in comorbidities, including diabetes, which may have cause this testosterone decrease nationally,” Soum Lokeshwar, MD, MBA, incoming urology resident at Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, said during a press briefing.
“However, most of these explanations for testosterone deficiency may be attributed to age. This time-dependent decline in testosterone has not been investigated in adolescent and young adult males,” added Lokeshwar, who was at the University Of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, at the time of the study.
Testosterone deficiency has a prevalence of 10%-40% among adult males, and 20% among AYA men aged 15-39 years, he added. Therefore, Lokeshwar and colleagues hypothesized that serum total testosterone levels will decline in AYA [= adolescent and young adult] men.
The investigators used data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES) from 1999 to 2016 to analyze serum testosterone level changes over time in 4045 AYA males. During the study periods, 3 different assays (Biotin-Streptavidin from 1999-2004, IS-Liquid Chromatography from 2011-2012, and High-Performance-Liquid-Chromatography Tandem Mass Spectrometry from 2013 onwards) were used. However, of note, they demonstrate comparable testosterone values with only some additional accuracy in the latest modality, Lokeshwar said.
After controlling for confounders—including year of study, age, race, BMI, comorbidity status, alcohol and smoking use, and level of physical activity—total testosterone was lower among men in the later (2011-2016) versus earlier (1999-2000) cycles (P < 0.001). Mean total testosterone decreased from 1999-2000 (605.39 ng/dL), 2003-2004 (567.44 ng/dL), 2011-2012 (424.96 ng/dL), 2013-2014 (431.76 ng/dL), and 2015-2016 (451.22 ng/dL; all P < .0001).
Elevated BMI was associated with reduced total testosterone levels (P < .0001), with the mean BMI increasing from 25.83 in 1999-2000, to 27.96 in 2015-2016 (P = 0.0006). Lokeshwar noted that even men with a normal BMI (18.5-24.9) had declining total testosterone levels (P < .05) during the same time frames.
Potential causes include increased obesity/BMI, assay variations
According to Lokeshwar, potential causes for these declines could be increased obesity/BMI, assay variations, diet/phytoestrogens, declined exercise and physical activity, fat percentage, marijuana use, and environmental toxins.
“We’ve seen that lower values of testosterone have been associated with increased comorbidities and an increase risk for all-cause mortality. This decline specifically, in these young adult men, with increased obesity may lead to an increase in precocious cancer,” Lokeshwar said, adding such decreases can also result in a lower libido and an increased risk for erectile dysfunction.
“This is especially worrisome in this young adult age group, as many men feel stigma and are less likely to seek care for these low libido and erectile dysfunction.” Lokeshwar added. “Testosterone levels in AYA men are used as the benchmark normal levels for testosterone. This is very scary, because generally, when we think of normal values of testosterone, we treat based upon this age group. This may ultimately lead to the undertreatment of testosterone deficiency, which can have large ramifications and severe consequences.”
Reference
1. Patel P, Fantus R, Lokeshwar S, et al. Trends in Serum Testosteron Levels Among Adolescent and Young Adults Men in the United State. Presented at: 2020 AUA Virtual Experience; May 15, 2020. Abstract MP78-01.
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This figure is based on four specific American studies that tracked testosterone levels first between 1980 and 2000, then between 2002 and 2016, and lastly between 2016 and 2020. It also reviewed data from a Boston hospital that had been tracking testosterone levels in adult patients between 1987 and 2020.
The studies were quite damning.
The first study I reviewed was one conducted by the New England Clinical Research Institute (NECRI). (Err, *Necr- is the root for destructive and murderous so I always tread lightly when dealing with these people.)
Although I struggle having to rely on FDA-certified/funded research organisations for data where their agenda is usually to DOWNPLAY important results such as is the case with demonstrating lower testosterone levels, I nevertheless do feel confident interpolating and extrapolating from these particular data sets.
So….according to the NECRI study, between 1980 and 2000 average testosterone levels dropped by “over 1 percent a year”. The study demonstrated that a “50-year-old man at the turn of the millennium would have testosterone levels 15 percent lower than those of a 50-year-old in 1987. This also means that a greater proportion of men in 2000 would have had below-normal testosterone levels than in 1987.”
That’s pretty startling.
In another study I found out of a Boston hospital, the average testosterone level of a 60-year-old man in 1987 had Testosterone levels above 17.5nmol/L. This study “surveyed nearly half a century of charts in one hospital in Massachusetts and compared rates.”
A 60-year-old man in 2002 had an average testosterone level below 15nmol [= nanomoles]/L[iter], down from over 17nmol/L.
In 2021 that rate had dropped to 12nmol/L. Based on this, average testosterone levels in men are declining by between 1 and 2% every year and will drop to below 10nmol/L by the mid 2030’s and thus be HALF the 1987 average – which was already presumably lower than rates seen in the 1950’s, by the mid century mark.
*On the term “nanomoles”: Many medical tests measure results in what is referred to as nanomoles or nmol per liter (nmol/L) as I have written above. A “mole” is an amount of a substance that contains a large number (6 followed by 23 zeros) of molecules or atoms. A nanomole is one-billionth of a mole.
Scalopus aquaticus, or the American Eastern mole, I am certain has higher rates of testosterone than their New England human cohabitants. 😉
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And it’s not just in liberal New England and/or America….
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Research I’ve carried out on Nordic populations found that Finnish, Swedish and Danish males have shown a similar downward trend during this same period.
Few today know that in battle Alexander the Great, King of Macedon, was not back in the rear, seated on a horse, getting and sending messages. He inspired his men to valor by fighting literally in the very front row, right alongside them, in every battle!
See below how once-high testosterone levels crashed in Nordic populations compared to their Massachusetts-born counterparts, who too are predominantly white and Western European ethnically.
Abstract from Nordic study
Serum testosterone levels decreased (from 25.3 nmol/l in 25- to 29-year-old men gradually to 16.9 nmol/l in 70- to 74-year-old men), whereas SHBG and gonadotrophin levels increased with increasing age.
In addition, a significant secular trend in testosterone (total and free), SHBG and gonadotrophin levels was observed with lower levels in more recently born age-matched men. Serum testosterone level decreased in men aged 60-69 years from 21.9 nmol/l (men born 1913-1922) to 13.8 nmol/l (men born 1942-1951).
These decreases remained significant following adjustment for BMI [body-mass index, which measures the percentage of body fat].
An age-independent birth cohort effect existed on reproductive hormones measured in the Finnish men. In concert with the lower free-testosterone levels, we observed lower gonadotrophin levels, suggesting that while there may be detrimental changes at the gonad [testicular] level, the hypothalamus-pituitary-axis is just not responding appropriately to this change, that is, not adjusting, compensating and boosting T-production back up.
And this is not some sort of war being waged solely against white Americans and more recently, Nordic-DNA people in any white country.
One can see similar rates of decline in African-American populations, and also in Mexicans living in the United States, compared to their counterparts in Mexico, etc.
The data is clear — low-T impacts people of all races living in the wider western world.
A colleague of mine was actually involved in a study out of Haifa, Israel, that tracked testosterone levels in Ashkenazi (“white” European) Jews.
They too are suffering a similar fate.
“A large-scale study of Israeli men concluded last year showed how average testosterone levels have dropped between 2006 and 2019 — by over 10% across almost every age category in Israel.”
Israeli soldiers cry after a Palestinian stabbed one of them
It is fair to say that this is an issue impacting the wider western world, which includes all of North America and the Anglosphere as well as in places like Israel with its large white (Ashkenazi-Jewish, that is, European) population.
The Israeli elite is overwhelmingly white in appearance despite some semitic genes, such as the then young soldier Yitzak Rabin, a future prime minister
Although we won’t know if future 60-year-old millennials hailing from Western lands will have lower testosterone levels than people born around the same time as my father (who was born in the 1950s), my educated guess, based on my careful extrapolation of the data, tells me they will have diminished testosterone.
Here are a few ADDITIONAL STUDIES Studies to peruse if the ones out of New England , Scandinavia and Israel aren’t enough for you….
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Study 1 – 2020 American Urological Association Virtual Experience (S Patel, S Lokeshwar, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Yale University
Overall male testosterone decline can be attributed to multiple etiologies.
The authors of this study wrote that testosterone decrease was directly associated with “elevated BMI” [overweight and obesity].
“Low levels (of testosterone) was associated with reduced total testosterone levels (P < .0001), with the mean BMI increasing from 25.83 in 1999-2000, to 27.96 in 2015-2016 (P = 0.0006). Lokeshwar noted that even men with a normal BMI (18.5-24.9) had declining total testosterone levels (P < .05) during the same time frames.
According to Lokeshwar, potential causes for these declines could be increased obesity/BMI, assay variations, diet/phytoestrogens, declines in exercise and physical activity, fat percentage, marijuana use, and environmental toxins.
“The entire population is shifting somewhat downward, we think,” Travison told Reuters Health.
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A 2007 study in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism revealed a “substantial” drop in U.S. men’s testosterone levels since 1980, with median levels declining by about 1% per year. This means, that a 50-year-old man in 2004 had testosterone levels 17% lower than those of a 50-year-old in 1987. Another study of Danish men produced similar findings, with double-digit declines among men born in the 1960s compared to those born in the 1920s.
A new study has revealed that contemporary Danish males have lower levels of testosterone than their fathers.
The research, conducted on 5,000 Danish men by the Rigshospitalet Clinic, shows that those born in the 1960s [now in their early 60s] have on average 14 percent lower testosterone levels than males from the 1920s.
The study also discovered that the testosterone-binding protein SHBG had fallen by 26 percent in the same period, according to a report by MetroXpress newspaper.
“It’s a little frightening and thought-provoking that there is something affecting men’s sex hormone,” said Anna-Maria Andersson, the research study leader from the Rigshospitalet Clinic for Growth and Reproduction.
Fertility doctor Peter Lyngdorf said testosterone is vital for maintaining regular heart functions in addition to several other measures, such as aiding bone structure.”It’s worrying if men are suddenly lacking one of their key strengths that make them men,” he added.
Lyngdorf theorised that a combination of factors could be behind the reduced testosterone levels in modern men, such as greater use of pesticides in food products and increasingly unhealthy lifestyles.
According to data from the Danish Medicines Agency, more Danish males are currently being prescribed testosterone, with numbers increasing from 437,000 in 2004 to 554,000 in 2008
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Disturbing to say the least…. And the challenges to men’s health don’t end there.
Rates of certain reproductive disorders (like testicular and prostate cancer) have risen over time, while multiple European studies have found that sperm counts are sinking along with muscle density, while body mass index rates (BMI) – which is a modern, widely used measurement that uses your height and weight to work out if your weight is healthy – are increasing exponentially.
This can be attributed to a variety of factors including modern adults having deeply unhealthy sex lives. As I mentioned earlier, although people have more partners now, that doesn’t mean they are having more sex, better sex or healthier sexual relations.
Married couples also tend to have more sex when the woman stays home. A tired woman = sexless marriage, low birth rates, and….lower testosterone. And women began opting more and more for careers outside the family home at around the same time as this precipitous drop occurred.
Without being too crude, if you don’t use it, you don’t need the hormones that operate it.
Then there’s the massive percentage of the population who aren’t having sex at all – people like the so-called “incels” [from “involuntary celibates”], or the wayward souls who are into the whole “MGTOW” [“Men Going Their Own Way”] tripe, and those afflicted with Cultural Marxist and “soy-induced” neuroses that sap male self-confidence and the associated sex drive needed to have sex.
***JdN: “The Donna Reed Show” was a big hit series on American television for eight years 1958-66, featuring and promoting the old family ideal:
— a rugged, square-jawed male, the husband (played by German-American Carl Betz), who went out to work every day;
— a stay-at-home wife and homemaker (played by Donna Reed), who was feminine but not ditsy;
— and two children who became teenagers during the show’s run and had realistic teenage challenges.
Wiki:
This show was the first TV family sitcom to feature the mother as the center of the show. Reed’s character, Donna Stone, is a loving mother and wife, but also a strong woman, an active participant in her community, a woman with feelings and a sense of humor. According to many of Reed’s friends and family, Reed shared many similarities to the character that she portrayed on screen, implying that the fictional Donna Stone was a near-identical copy of Reed herself.
In a 2008 interview, Paul Petersen (Jeff Stone) stated:
[The Donna Reed Show] depicts a better time and place. It has a sort of level of intelligence and professionalism that is sadly lacking in current entertainment products. The messages it sent out were positive and uplifting. The folks you saw were likable, the family was fun, the situations were familiar to people.
It provided 22-and-a-half-minutes of moral instructions and advice on how to deal with the little dilemmas of life. Jeff and Mary and their friends had all the same problems that real kids in high school did.[3]
Petersen continued,
That’s what the show was really about, the importance of family. That’s where life’s lessons are transmitted, generation to generation. There’s a certain way in which these are transmitted, with love and affection.[3]
This song from the show in 1961 actually became a big musical hit all its own: “Johnny Angel,” showing a girl dreaming of a husband and marriage. Hard to image such a wholesome series today:
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Again, all this predominantly impacts the white men of the West.
When is the last time you have heard a Mexican worry if his “abs” aren’t pronounced enough before approaching a woman?
Although Westerners widely view the Chinese, who superficially appear less masculine (men) and feminine (women) than their counterparts (the men literally having no beards, and the women usually small breasts), as being less sexual beings, the very fact that there are 1.4 BILLION of them should tell you that they aren’t asexual at all. 😉
In fact, Chinese couples on average have sex twice as often as American ones do.
“Chinese people have a higher sex frequency than the global and western average level. The survey shows 31% of Chinese have sex twice a week which is higher than the world average of 21% and 16% Western average. And the people who have sex more than 3 times a week accounts for 24% of the respondents, which is also higher than the world average of 19%.
JdN: American tours the city of Wuhan, China, infamous, of course, for the Covid outbreak, whatever its true origin. He finds the city actually very nice, but do note here in the context of this article how assertive Chinese men are, albeit friendly, almost forcing cigarettes on him. 😉 And everything is spotless and well-organized, signs of a healthy yang/male energy. Parks are well- tended; there is no litter anywhere; nobody is dejected or slacking off.
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Macho and promiscuous westerners talk about sex incessantly to the point of nausea, but simply put, they just do not engage in it as frequently as people from non-white cultures.
And that’s just the sociological aspect of endemic sexual dysfunction in the west
Lower testosterone levels also wreaks havoc on one’s body in turn causingimpotence and sexual dysfunction.
Ravaged, unhealthy bodies connected to damaged minds aren’t efficient at building sexual relationships.
Fathers with low levels of sexual hormones also results in children with lower levels of testosterone.
Just as humans lost our tails as we didn’t use them (it was actually a genetic mutation), we are rapidly losing what makes us men.
Speaking of tails and losing what makes us men….
Erect penis length, as a percentage of overall height (human height or stature is the distance from the bottom of the feet to the top of the head in a human body, standing erect) is also far shorter than it used to be.
Although there is no way to know for certain how “large” men were in generations past – as most of the historical studies performed relied on self-reporting data – various studies indicate that the average erect male penis is now barely above 5 inches in length (12cm) in spite of the fact that men are on average 3-4 inches taller than they were just 50-60 years ago, when a 6-inch erect penis was seen as more typical.
*** JdN: There was a serious study around 1965 in Playboy magazine that discussed penis length in both white and black men, and the average white man had a 6-inch (15cm) penis, the average black 6.5 inches, a small difference.
It also said that black men were semi-erect all the time, whereas white men’s members expanded dramatically upon arousal.
(I would have to say from my time in Marine boot camp in the showers — we took fast group showers — or individual showers after hours — in an open space twice every day for 89 straight days — that it is true that many black men are half-erect.)
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The biggest study that measured penis size to date, published in the journal BJU International, measured the members of 15,521 men across the whole globe, that is, in all races. The study discovered that the average length of an erect penis is now 13.12 cm (5.16 inches). And this was after pressing the fat on the pubic bone to elongate length to the maximum.
With most overweight men, what is visible to the naked eye and protruding beyond the surface of the skin is less than 5 inches in length.
Another review, which included studies from 16 countries revealed similar measurements with erect lengths ranging from 11 to 16 cm (approximately 4 to 6 inches). Penises above 15cm (almost 6 inches) in length, these days, are in the top 10% in the West.
But this seems to me a little peculiar.
The average penis size in the UK, a nation of self-professed strapping white men who live for fighting and drinking in the famous pubs, is a “whopping” 13.13cm (5.17 inches), according to a massive study released this past year out of three British universities.
Although Englishmen may be delighted to learn that the UK is at least average when it comes to penis size, the fact is that they are far above average in Europe when it comes to height and weight. This means the penis both IS and also appears to be smaller than average when compared to non-Western nations, where men are typically shorter and slimmer.
The fact is that with changing mores and the collapse of the family, indigenous Brits simply do not have sex very often, and they have low birth rates… and also a shrinking penis size.
Bottom line: Modern men are much heavier, bigger, stronger, taller than their recent ancestors, yet their penis size is smaller, and actually drastically smaller in relation to their increased height.
This is rightly a touchy issue, and one rarely discussed, but there is something to the fact that the average American white man is now above 6′ [183cm]tall, yet has an erect penis, hovering around 5 inches [13cm] in length, which appears even smaller because he is also obese.
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Again, this is NOT to shame men, as functioning penises have always come in a variety of sizes.
Nor is it to make people feel inadequate as penis length hardly matters when it comes to personal worth, or the ability to procreate. However, it does demonstrate a societal change, a hormonal change, and, in my opinion, based on decades of research and inquiry, low-T will prove to be a major HEALTH problem moving forward.
Higher levels of blood sugar, of height, and the catastrophic increases in weight and body-fat, plus lower testosterone and smaller penises, all mean we are actually devolving — going down — as a species.
All of these trends alarmingly coincide with a decline in musculoskeletal strength among young men, record high BMI rates, and a crash in societal mental health.
It is an age of weak minds, weak bodies, and poor health.
When is the last time you shook the hand with a man and felt any sort of power in his grip? Have you felt the hand-grip strength of young men today? Sometimes anecdotal evidence helps confirm what the studies are showing. Go shake some young guy’s hand tomorrow, and you’ll see what I mean….
In a 2016 study, the average 20- to 34-year-old man could apply 98 pounds of force with a right-handed grip, down from 117 pounds by a man of the same age in 1985.
Though grip strength isn’t necessarily a proxy for overall fitness, it’s a strong predictor of future mortality. (Fain E, Weatherford C. “Comparative study of millennials’ grip and lateral pinch with the norms.” Journal of Hand Therapy. 2016 Oct 1;29(4):483–8.)
Sure, there are more people going to the gym than ever before, but lower measurable strength PRIOR to embarking on an exercise routine means in spite of humans increasing in size, we as a species are deceasing in strength and virility.
While you’re at it, have a listen to the average American male speak. His manner and vocal inflection has changed from that of his father’s. Men simply do not sound like….men anymore.
And its not just liberals out of San Fran or NY and young people, as I can hear conservatives shout from behind their computers. No, it’s across the board and found throughout the western world.
Listen to the likes of David Beckham, once a great soccer player, a man in his fifties who grew up during the period these shocking changes began taking place. Englishmen in general have very feminine voices now, even when they are attractive, athletic, virile men like Beckham.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuUrSrIZnMc
The change in vocal inflection and pitch can partially be attributed to social trends that attack masculinity, but not entirely. Much of it is physiological. Make no mistake.
*** JdN My Marine Corps father noticed more and more falsetto male voices in pop music, and was not pleased. It started in the 1950s and got worse rapidly in the 1980s.
I and millions of others liked the Beach Boys in the 1960s and in 1964 got my father once to watch them sing on the then famous “Ed Sullivan Show,” a huge variety show which ran for a whopping 23 years.
He watched them and said: “Mmmmm, what’s with the tight pants and girly voices?”
By 1984, we had Boy George, a gay still (barely) in the closet, and the group “Culture Club” singing this girly way (and this was the number-one song for THREE WEEKS that year):
Compare that with this huge 1950s hit by baritone Jimmy Dean: “Big, Bad John” (which is also about heroic self-sacrifice in a miner)
Or Tennessee Ernie Ford’s “Sixteen Tons,” also a song about miners:
I remember when American men were very masculine…. Everyone served in the military, and, growing up, most teenage boys had their dad in the house, and he was legally married to their mother. And with high union wages, many men with a high school diploma or less owned their own small house, a car, and a hunting or fishing cabin, too. All this built self-confidence as a man, and this raised the vitality and testosterone in him.
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Then there’s evidence that more than half of men over 30 years of age have problems getting an erection during normal sexual relations – not to be confused with pornography.
Today, though, I am not here to bore you with any more studies, or tales of doom and gloom to make you feel bad (or good) about the size of your penis, or drive you to jump off a cliff, but rather to tell you how you can change YOUR life, your mentality and your body.
Not by finding God, attending an Andrew Tate seminar, joining the evil MGTOW movement, or by moving to Bangkok….but by reclaiming your masculinity in a systematic and methodical manner.
Only YOU can make the changes needed to get your life back on track.
First thing I want you to do if you too feel you need a change in direction, is to turn off both the TV and your phone for a few hours.
Identifying the enemy and unlatching its venomous tentacles is always the first step in the path to personal liberation and all that accompanies it (better mental and physical health, higher testosterone, a fulfilling personal life etc.)
Understanding what is being done to us as a people and to you on an individual level by the likes of Big Pharma, your government and the public school system is one of the building blocks of personal empowerment.
I then want you to start by doing some push-ups, and then start reflecting on who you are as a man and individual, and what sort of person you want to be as you push your body to exhaustion.
I want you to take your shirt off and look at yourself in the mirror.
Identify areas where some form of physical improvement is in order and start thinking about a health and exercise routine that will work for you personally.
There are plenty of great men on YouTube who can assist you in that endeavour.
Write down your weaknesses, strengths and set some personal goals. If you’ve become fat, write down how many pounds you want to lose. If you’re in good shape, write down the number of push-ups or chin-ups, the bench-press weight or short distance sprint time – your area of physical interest – you’d like to achieve.
Start thinking about things you can do to better your health.
Then I want you to think about what REALLY made you happy when you were in your youth, and then go and do it.
Even if it is playing an old video game you enjoyed as a kid (on your own and NOT online) or just going out and kicking a ball or swinging a racquet. It doesn’t matter if you’re 40 like me, 50, 60 or older than that. Recall what made you exuberant as a child and revisit the idea of taking it up as a hobby. Chances are you still enjoy it and it will bring you pleasure.
The release of dopamine, serotonin, endorphins, and oxytocin that one gets from enjoyment, exercise, etc. will ultimately make you healthier hormonally and in turn boost the generating of testosterone.
Today, I want you to also eat foods that your ancestors would have eaten, not those that the profit-driven shyster advertisers TELL you to consume.
Foods that not only are good for you, but your body will enjoy on a spiritual level.
If you have a girlfriend or wife, make love to her (if she agrees 😉 )
It is good for you! If not, then meet a woman as soon as you are able, and begin the process of improving your personal life!!!!! It isn’t that hard. There is someone for everyone.
This is not something you need to do today if it’s not something you are ready for, but it is something that you should think about once you are in the right frame of mind to do so.
Don’t listen to people who tell you that “women are evil bitches and gold diggers” and so men should “go their own way.” Unlike true masculinity, that’s REALLY toxic.
There are still good people out there of both sexes.
Your testosterone levels will increase merely thinking about these subjects.
Hitting a tennis ball, thinking about the girl you used to make love to in your youth and perhaps someone you think you will be able to have sexual relations with WILL get your blood flowing and good things will happen.
Once you look and feel good, and build back your confidence, great things WILL ALWAYS happen.
Again, it doesn’t matter what age you are. If you are worried about your age, just avoid the mirror for a few days and start to live your life to its fullest potential.
Even though I do not want to go into each of these subjects in any sort of detail, as I’d prefer to leave it up to you to decide what works best for your body and mind, before I conclude here I would like to discuss diet, simply because it is the key to bettering your body and with it your mind.
We are what we eat.
So….what will I eat today?
Firstly I eat as low a carb and calorie diet as possible. The foods I eat are typically high in protein and nutrient-dense. I do not take any supplements or medication and will consume all meals within 8-10 hours of waking up. The last meal I eat is early in the evening and I won’t then eat again until a half hour before I begin my morning exercise routine.
Today I will consume almost 1-2 pounds of meat, drink two glasses of whole-fat milk or yogurt, roast some potatoes and a small amount of vegetables in the form of ajvar (aslavic vegetable compote) and a homemade tomato sauce. To treat myself I will have a little bit of pie, ice cream or a savoury pastry. Again, happiness is important for your hormonal balance.
I am not a strict carnivore, as I see that diet as too extreme for me, but apart from the potatoes, which were brought to Europe from the New World, which is a vegetable and a daily treat, I mostly eat foods that our ancestors in Western and Eastern Europe would have eaten thousands of years ago.
At this stage, though I am outside my area of expertise, I will leave you with an email a colleague who is an expert on the matter sent me last month.
Good luck to you as you embark on your new life.
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High-carb or low-carb diets? Grains or gluten-free eating? Meat eating or veganism?
Most of what I am seeing online about diet promotes food choices as a simple binary decision: eat this, don’t eat that; this is good for you, that’s bad.
It’s mind-boggling.
The decisions we make about what to eat are a complicated affair. They’re never a simple case of eat what’s best for your health or what naturally suits your physiology.
Cultural mores, religious practices, ethical concerns, gender, stage of life and state of health, geographic location, economics and family and individual preferences all play a role in the selections we make.
Our ancestors evolved to be super-predators, with meat-eatingand sharing a key survival strategy for our kind for millions of years. So do we really have a choice to not eat any meat today?
Culture is a ubiquitous force when it comes to making choices about food. All human societies, from hunter-gatherer to post-industrial ones like our own, have food preferences and fads, or restrictions and taboos.
We eat things because they taste good, even if they are bad for us. Other things we avoid have proven health benefits, but maybe they’re simply not as tasty or palatable.
Sometimes food taboos exist for good reason – such as to prevent overuse of an important resource or to reduce the risk of food poisoning at an important stage of life.
But just as often we find dietary preferences are culturally patterned behaviours, such as women changing their diet at varying times in their menstrual cycle, despite this practice having negative health consequences.
On top of this, certain nutrients like sugar activate reward pathways in the brain similar to those associated with cocaine use, making them highly sought after and potentially addictive.
Much of the dietary advice found on the Internet might be well-meaning, but a substantial amount of it is misleading and frequently smacks of anti-intellectualism.
The debate about meat, and whether we humans have evolved to eat it, has to be one of the best examples of b-s ever seen on the web.
It has largely lost all sense of the complex reality of food choice behaviours. Far too often it tries to rewrite our evolutionary history by invoking pseudo-science.
Some pro-vegetarian or vegan-promoting websites mistakenly claim that humans shouldn’t eat meat because we evolved to be herbivores.
The substance of their arguments is often traceable back to the influential but pseudo-scientific views of vegan physician Milton R. Mills.
Some vegan sites even claim support from anthropology for their anti-meat agenda.
We also find bogus arguments like these promoted in the mainstream media where some columnists push an anti-intellectual agenda by misrepresenting the views of scientists such as fellow anthropologist Richard Leakey.
For the record, here’s what he has actually written about meat eating and human evolution.
But if you love a good steak, don’t take the moral high ground just yet. There’s plenty of b-s in the pro-meat camp as well.
One need only read Internet debates on the subject of meat eating to see barnyards full of it on both sides.
As an interesting aside, social anthropologists have found meat to be the one food that’s subject to food taboos across many cultures.
So, there might be a much deeper (genetic?) origin to our varying opinions towards meat, with some people loving it and others repulsed by it, across the world.
No matter what the most militant of vegans or vegetarians would like to think, there’s an abundance of scientific evidence that we humans evolved to be predator apes.
Our ancestors were highly skilled hunters and meat was widely eaten and highly prized.
While hunter-gatherers varied considerably in terms of how much meat they consumed, none of them was vegan. Such diets simply wouldn’t have been available or viable options for them anyway.
Our human ecological and life-history strategy evolved around acquiring and sharing hard-to-catch, but large pay-off foods such as big mammals and fish.
*** In the 20,000-year Ice Age, our Solutrean ancestors in the Old Stone Age ate meat from woolly mammoths, horses, fish and seals, and were six inches [15cm] taller than their descendants in the New Stone Age who ate bread from grains. Their skeletons reveal many signs of malnutrition in their teeth and bones.
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We humans rely on culture for everything we do, whether it be the values and shared ideas we have about the world, social relationships, or the methods and tools we use to aid in catching and processing food.
The earliest examples of stone tools used for acquiring and processing food have been found in Africa and date to around 3.3 million years old.
Butchered and defleshed bones from around the same time indicate clearly that early humans were butchering large mammals for food.
Fire was probably used in an at least an ad hoc way from around 1.6 million years ago – probably much earlier – but became a regular tool for pre-modern humans from at least 400,000 years ago.
Cooking played a major role in making both meat and starchy foods palatable and digestible. This provided our ancestors with a huge survival advantage.
Food cooking, especially of meat, may even have contributed to the evolution of our large brains.
Humans are the only living primate adapted for running – particularly endurance running – and during the hottest time of the day. This seems also to be a universal pattern among the different species belonging to the human genus Homo, all dozen or more of us.
The organs of balance – our vestibular system – are designed to help keep the head stable because of its tendency to pitch forward when running.
Humans possess a nuchal ligament to connect the base of the skull to the spinal column and help keep the head balanced as we run.
We have long lower limbs and a narrow trunk and pelvis. Our ribcage is barrel-shaped rather than shaped like a funnel with a bulging gut, like chimpanzees’.
The muscles of our shoulder are decoupled from those of our neck because they aren’t used for climbing, which aids the need to counterbalance the legs and reduce rotation of the head when running.
Many of our lower limb muscles and their tendons – like the gluteus maximus, iliotibial tract and Achilles tendon – are also adapted for running.
*** The famous beach-running scene from “Chariots of Fire” with music by Vangelis, and notice in the crowds in the 1920s that almost no one is obese.
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We have large ankle bones, arches across two directions of the foot, and the ligaments of the foot absorb energy when we run, releasing it during toe-off.
Our big toe has been brought into line with the other toes, losing its branch-grasping abilities.
Humans have sparse and short body hair and between 5 million and 12 million eccrine sweat glands that can produce up to 12 litres of water a day to help prevent hyperthermia.
The only other African mammals that are active during the heat of the day, running long distances, are dogs and hyenas.
Our species also has uniformly pigmented skin – the exception being people living at high latitude who probably lost their skin colour very recently.
Pigmentation protects the outer layers of the skin against sun damage and ultimately skin cancer, so is vital for a mammal that has sparse body hair and is active in the heat of the day.
All of this points to hunting, and a particular style called the persistence hunt. It would have been widespread prior to the invention of weapons like bows and arrows around 60,000 years ago.
David Attenborough’s Life of Mammals series has some wonderfully engaging footage of San men undertaking a persistence hunt. It’s well worth a look.
To claim we shouldn’t eat meat because we aren’t anatomically identical to carnivores demonstrates a profound misunderstanding of how evolution has worked.
Humans and carnivores, like dogs and hyenas, are very different kinds of mammals, separated by around 100 million years of evolutionary history.
We are primates and our basic body plan is constrained genetically by our primate heritage. You can’t turn an ape into a wolf in just 3 million years!
While much has been made of our sacculated colon, this is a feature common to all apes and is the result of common evolutionary inheritance.
We have all evolved from plant-eating apes regardless of what we eat today. A sacculated colon in no way suggests we are herbivores.
Besides, humans do eat a lot more than just meat and clearly require a wide range of foods for a balanced diet. For example, no apes can synthesise vitamin C in their bodies, so it must be acquired from plant food sources.
However, the human gut differs substantially from other apes in a couple of key respects: first, we have a small gut for our body size; and second, our greatest gut volume lies in the small intestine, while in other apes it lies in the colon.
A bigger small intestine indicates we absorb most of our nutrients there, and that we obtain them from high-quality, nutrient-dense sources like meat and starchy foods.
A large colon, as seen in all other apes, fits with their strongly plant-based diet (87-99% of foods) and the need to ferment it. Humans simply can’t survive on the type of diet we see chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans or gibbons eating.
Another disturbing piece of evidence worth noting is tapeworms. Each year millions of people around the world are infected with them through eating undercooked or raw meat.
And here’s the rub: without infecting a human host, at least four species of tapeworm would be unable to reproduce. Humans are a definitive host for them.
The only other mammals to be definitive hosts for tapeworms are carnivores like lions and hyenas.
Molecular clocks suggest human tapeworms evolved about the time our ancestors began to hunt.
Briefly, two other human features need mentioning, because they have been widely used to mislead people on the issue of meat eating.
Our teeth are very similar to those of other apes in terms of the size, shape and number we possess – all apes and Old World monkeys have 32.
But there’s one important difference: we humans have small canine teeth.
The canine teeth of apes are not used for catching prey or chewing food. Instead they are for display and are used by males to battle it out for dominance in a social hierarchy or for access to mates.
A small canine tooth evolved in human evolution some time after 5 million years ago and represents a shift in the social structure and mating behaviour of our ancestors.
It shows us that male-to-male conflict had been reduced – perhaps because males were sharing food with females and each other. Males and females may even have been monogamous at this time.
Lastly, humans have nails instead of claws because we are primates. No primates have claws. So to claim that our lack of claws shows we shouldn’t eat meat again indicates a clear lack of familiarity with our biology.
Besides, early human hunters used tools, their big brainsand understanding of their environment and cooperative tendencies to catch food, not their brawn.
There is a danger in taking our evolutionary history as fate. We are no longer hunter-gatherers, and our lifestyle is about as far removed from that of our ancestors as can be imagined.
We need to adapt to our changing circumstances and find a diet that healthily supports it, as we have always done as a species.
Whether we choose to eat meat or not is not just a question of biology. The choice involves a complex set of cultural, social, ethical, health, personal and economic factors as well. It is not binary.
The best guide for most people on how to eat comes from science itself – for example, as presented in guidelines like those from the Australian government.
But many millions of people today survive on low-meat or no-meat diets, by choice or otherwise. In this sense, vegetarianism or veganism is like any other culturally situated dietary choice.
It should be both understood and respected as such and can’t be explained away or justified by appealing to a particular narrative of our evolutionary past.
In the end, my gripe is not with vegetarians or vegans or with those people who choose to eat animal food. My beef is with people who set out to promote their beliefs by appealing to anti-intellectualism. Dishonest people eschew the evidence and contestability of ideas that lie at the heart of science for personal, political or financial gain.
Those self-appointed experts set out to deliberately deceive us by using pseudoscience or plain old b-s to construct their own version of our past for their own financial or ideological reasons.
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……JdN: My comment
I am very proud to be able to run this exclusive article by G.V., who, btw, once sent me a video of him doing five ONE-ARM pullups!
One of the most daunting things holding me back from starting a movement is growing male effeminacy. A person may intellectually agree with me and my goals, but if his testosterone is pitifully low, his support remains merely verbal, or perhaps even financial, which is fine, but otherwise there is no ooomph, no action from the man.
We need a deliberate re-masculinization as a TOP priority. This article is part of that process.
I actually descend from Vikings, from the Normans who adopted Christianity superficially to get a big chunk of France granted to them by the French king, a region called Normandy (“Northmen-Land”).
Lifting the entire stack of weights 20 times in my sixties:
Go to a gym and try this yourself…. Lift the whole stack.
.https://johndenugent.com/images/jdn-lat-pulldown-6-april-2018.mp4
That’s badass, John -hell yea !
I had my testosterone level checked a couple of years ago, and it was 1113 mg/dL, which is “off the charts.” I’m now in my early 60s. However, despite being in good shape, I also now have heart problems, which cause poor circulation and ED. I hope to have these heart problems fixed in the near future.
Incidentally, Mike Tyson almost certainly used steroids during his prime fighting years. Evander Holyfield was told by a trainer close to Tyson that he used steroids, and Tyson himself admitted in an interview to having used a fake penis filled with someone else’s urine in order to pass a drug test for an upcoming fight, since he was an avid pot smoker. Tyson also displayed all of the classic “roid rage” behaviors, both in and out of the ring, such as deliberately ramming his car into a tree, biting off Holyfield’s ear, etc.
Contrary to some people’s beliefs, the ugly, distended abdominal muscles found in most modern-day professional bodybuilders are from growth hormone abuse, not from anabolic steroids. This is why Arnold Schwarzenegger and other “old school” 1970s-era bodybuilders didn’t have distended abdominals, even though they were all heavy users of anabolic steroids. This is also why Tyson didn’t have a distended abdominal wall, since he was only abusing anabolic steroids, not growth hormone.
Thanks for this info.
Indeed a high testosterone level….. and yes, Tyson sure did display roid rage.
The white Ancient Greeks were bodybuilders, which one can see from their statues. Mere manual labor cannot explain those muscles, and their definition. It was also real strength, which paid off when the Greeks twice stopped Persian invasions and then invaded Persia itself under Alexander.
The Nordic aliens are also always described as tall, blond humans who are very muscular.
Holyfield was definately also on steroids in my opinion -he hit a pregnant horse https://www.tmz.com/watch/0-y4bm6n1f/
Hello John, some people were disgusted by some of my ideas but I truly think they are great. I believe in traditional courtship, with people being very cautious about relationships, only marrying and having sexual and libidinous activity with the one they chose as life/eternal partner. There are many advantages. In this modern age our sexual nature is taken as just a pleasure-seeking behavior, losing its main function of reproduction. Not only that, but we are getting ever further away from the romantic ideals of a caring romantic and strong relationship of man and woman, to build a family.
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It may not work for many but I truly think saving ourselves for marriage is ideal. But when I tell people that a man should inform his possible future wife, in advance, of very sensitive information concerning his person, about intelligence, diseases, and all kind of metrics, including the one related to his sexual nature, people get scandalized.
As a man is easy to see, even if a girl is Amish and wearing their garb, her body attributes. No dress can completely hide the feminine form. But as a woman, they can’t know about how well endowed or masculine a man is just by looking him in normal attire. Modern society makes people think that to solve this problem they must “experiment”. This is not necessary at all.
If men inform women with their metrics, aspect description (how it looks is important, especially pigmentation, lack of it is ideal) and functional state of his you-know-what, women can choose a men with which she will have a happy and healthy sexual life, and without the risk of regrets and dissatisfaction that may lead to divorce.
I think women shouldn’t be repressed in this aspect; they should be able to choose someone compatible with her nature, and as virgins it would be good for them to seek the advice of her relatives and other women. In most religions that practice celibacy until marriage, this is overlooked.
Chances are that women will choose men more virile than average, and this is actually something good for us as a race. It would be a good trait to develop as it makes men so much more confident and assertive. Of course, it should be just one of the several traits taken into account. And people should also marry only if they develop real love for each other.
Also, it is interesting that men of today have smaller penises and lower testosterone despite the fact of our modern, over-sexualized and degenerate culture.
Thanks. I am just curious if a woman in the real world will be content with descriptions or photos.
In Upper Bavaria and Austria, deeply Catholic areas (I lived there and was married for 13 years to a girl from there, having two daughters with her), there was nevertheless a custom called “Fensterln.”
It comes, of course, from the German word for “window” (das Fenster). It meant, to be clear, a ladder put up at night to the girl’s bedroom window.
It went far beyond sexual compatibility to actual impregnability.
This was an age when a young farmer expected to inherit the farm from his father…. and then pass it on down to HIS offspring someday, a millennial tradition.
If the girl did not become pregnant, there simply was no wedding. Sorry, but the having of children was a central mission back then….. and it must again be central for us to survive.
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