025: The Decline of the Modern Male

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth

Sal Di Stefano, Adam Schafer, Justin Andrews, Doug Egge

Exercise, Health & Fitness, Health, Fitness

4.8 • 11.8K Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2015

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

The male is under siege. Environmental and social factors are contributing to the decline of testosterone and the role men have traditionally played. The alpha male was once king, but is he now on the endangered list? What will stop this downhill slide? Growing a bushy beard? Probably, not. However, Sal, Adam & Justin offer some advice to those men who would like to cling onto their manhood.

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0:00.0	If you want to pump your body and expand your mind, there's only one place to go.
0:06.0	Mind, hop, mind, hop with your hosts.
0:09.0	Salda Stefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews.
0:14.0	Alright, welcome to Mind Pump.
0:16.0	We talk a lot about fitness, nutrition, random shit, a lot of stuff.
0:21.0	So I wanted to cover this. This is an interesting subject.
0:23.0	I've been reading about this now for the past.
0:26.0	It's a subject that's been fascinating me for the past.
0:29.0	I'd say probably three years.
0:31.0	I read an article about this back in 2007, I would say, years ago,
0:36.0	and it came up again the other day in conversation with Jim.
0:39.0	And it's fascinating, absolutely fascinating to me.
0:42.0	So let me, I just pulled up here.
0:44.0	This is in the Journal of Clinical and Docranology and Metabolism.
0:48.0	This was published in 2013, but these were things that they noticed back in 2006.
0:54.0	And it's something that they've been noticing for a while.
0:56.0	And the conclusion, I'm just going to read the conclusion,
0:59.0	these results indicate that in recent years have seen a substantial
1:03.0	and as yet unrecognized, age-dependent population level decrease
1:08.0	in testosterone in American men.
1:11.0	It's actually alarming since we've been measuring the average 30-year-old today
1:17.0	has the testosterone levels of like a 60-year-old in 1950.
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