January 23, 2008...10:56 pm
Testosterone and Men are on the Decline
In my daily, awesome perusal of the internet, I came across this study in the Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism (a very reputable journal, as far as I can tell from the journals it is cross-referenced with) concerning a Population-Level Decline in Serum Testosterone Levels of American Men. It was the largest, most comprehensive study of it’s kind measuring testosterone levels of men from different generations as they aged over a 17 year period (1987-2004). The results show a population-level decrease in testosterone (that means, for example, men who were born between 1916-1919 were measured to have lower testosterone than men born between 1940-1945 when aged the same number of years, look at this graph) that is consistent with “population-level decline in sperm counts and increasing incidence rates of certain reproductive disorders in men, especially in some Northern European countries.” Maybe Paula Cole was onto something.
The study does show what had already been known: that testosterone decreases linearly with age. However, it is surprising that we can see such a noticeable decrease in testosterone levels for no apparent genetic reason (further proof that relying on hundreds of thousands of years of evolution for mating dynamics is a huge mistake, stop talking about cavemen please, cavemen didn’t have mixed race girls).
Also, while this study was only done in the U.S., it’s large sample size (N=1709) and close matching with trends seen in other parts of the world (at least in developed nations) suggest that something is at work here. Feminism? Corporate culture? McDonalds? Acceptance of homosexuality? Yellow #5?!?!?
If you’re a good scientist, you may wonder why this study was done on older men. It’s because they were trying to measure how testosterone levels decrease with age. They just happened to stumble into this surprising result of decrease in testosterone over generations.
It’s very interesting to me how it is natural to assume that people aged faster back in the day, after all, people are living longer now than they ever have. However, older men maintained (in this study) higher testosterone levels than the next generation at the same age. Your dad had the right to call you ’son’, son.
The good news is that girls are hotter than they’ve ever been, and the testosterone is being sucked out of society. Sounds like shooting fish in a barrel to me.
I am a scientist, but this is not my field. If you’re interested in a real editorial by someone who knows what they’re talking about, read this.
6 Comments
January 23, 2008 at 11:45 pm
Hey science guy….give us some studies on fat people and ideas for their eradication. That seems to be your strong area.
January 24, 2008 at 12:45 pm
My question is what’s going on with women? I don’t feel like reading the study and since you obviously did, how are our hormone levels doing? Did the study discuss if women have sucked all the testosterone out of men leaving them as “beta” sniveling little bitches? Socially this could perhaps suggest a decrease in abortions, “I can help myself thank you” (eww) and perhaps an increase in homosexual, masculine looking women
If there has been an increase in the testosterone levels of women or even a decrease in the estrogen levels do you have to worry about the hottness of the fish you’re shooting in barrels? Let me know your thoughts Birthday Boy.
January 24, 2008 at 3:33 pm
this explains the decrease in alpha males, and the ones still left are truly treasures!
January 24, 2008 at 10:13 pm
Maybe because as people are getting smarter and working corporate more they don’t need to use that much test. Older generations actually had to really work. I mean how much test does it take to press enter on a keyboard?
Just a thought
January 25, 2008 at 12:12 pm
Me, I would love to know about estrogen levels in women. I would guess that they’re going up. They don’t seem to have the same fertility problems men are starting to have, and the influx of estrogen into our society is unmistakable.
January 27, 2008 at 2:04 am
Reminds of a quote I read in “The Way of the Samurai”. Take some of this ancient knowledge for your bitch assess, “The brave men of old times were for the most part rowdies. As they were of the disposition to be out running amuck, their vitality was strong and they were brave. When I had doubts about this and asked, Tsunetomo said, “It is understandable that since their vitality was strong they were generally rough and went about running amuck. These days rowdiness is nonexistent because man’s vitality has weakened. ” This was written over 300yrs. Ain’t nada new under the sun……Bitches.
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