Low T or High T

[EddMarkStarr]

OK you guys, my friend Mark Wooding, aka "After Skool", is back with a new video and this time he has a special guest.

If you are not familiar with Dr. Shanna Swan you're in for a treat. She is a wonderful speaker on the intersection of the environment and public health.

Our industrial world is effecting everyone's health, but as male sperm counts decline the future may look more different than anyone ever imagined.

(heads up - this is a 40 minute video but the subject is worth exploring)

 

[NotHardUp1]

I wonder at the new commercial focus on Low T. There have been infomercials pushing a supplement or something like that, impugning men's virility, and using nudge-nudge, wink-wink from football stars to sell it.

Although one hears of men who "can't get it up" at fairly young ages, I have not ever experienced it even now after six decades. Honestly, if it started tomorrow, I don't know how upset I'd be about it at my age, even if I were partnered. Being a breeder isn't a lifelong function in men. It's not like we're elk or cattle, and are killed off once we're not strong enough to fight off the competing bulls.

As we extended our lifespan through diet and industrialization of backbreaking manual labor, and medicine, we ensured the rise of other maladies, like cancer, and dementia, and the decline of sexual power. It's a fair trade. Enough is enough. We don't need to apologize for having sex drive, but we don't need to act like it's our raison d'etre after we're geriatric.

 

[Araucaria]

It seems the Low-T push, like the hormone replacement therapy for post-menopausal women, is an effort by the medical and pseudo medical world to pathologize normal human aging processes. You're not 25 years old, so you shouldn't have the T levels of a 25 year old. Besides, there may be benefits to having lower T levels as you age, such as decreasing aggressiveness and hostility. And, it wouldn't surprise me if it turns out that T replacement for men, just like hormone replacement therapy for women, which caused elevated levels of cancer, will have negative health consequences.

 

[Peloso]

We're just one species out of millions. Nature is a mammoth and powerful thing. The more we move against it, the more it will continue to crush us.

Also, why all this talk about the future? Silly humans! We have no future!

 

[EddMarkStarr]

Eventually every aspect of my life will fall victim to the whims of the USA's medical industrial complex.
Low T is just another treatment option to raid my bank account. At my age, low T is natural.

 

[NotHardUp1]

We're probably being too focused on the Low T.

Let's move on to the High T.

 

[Peloso]

We're probably being too focused on the Low T.

Let's move on to the High T.

All those sugary, deep fried, processed pastries are sure to lower your T.

 

[rareboy]

We're probably being too focused on the Low T.

Let's move on to the High T.

My initial reaction exactly.

 

[NotHardUp1]

I've eaten pastries all my life and never experienced a single day that I could not get erect, so not sure of why I would care about Low T.

 

[EddMarkStarr]

An afternoon cup of chamomile tea makes for a pleasant evening!

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

Had another kind of T last monday...