As I was preparing this interview, I found reference to a 2007 study that concluded that men's testosterone had been declining roughly 1% per year for the

previous 50 years. And if this trend continued into 2023, the average 22-year-old man today

would have an average testosterone level roughly equal to that of a 67-year-old man in

2000, a dramatic drop in T levels. And testosterone is a key ingredient in spurred production,

and if it continues to drop at this rate by 2045, the median man will be unable to have children.

I've got to think that we do something about it by then, but this is an epidemic in many ways.

And I'm excited to talk to our next guest who has an inspiring story of choosing not to go the way that maybe his environment or family

could have led him to go. Ben Pakulski, hope I was saying that right, Ben, raised the top of

physical potential as one of the 10 IFBB professional bodybuilders in the world.

And as an IFBB professional bodybuilder, he competed in 23 shows from 2008-2016.

He finished top 10 in the prestigious Arnold Schwarzenegger Classics, Ohio for six consecutive

years, placing second in 2013.

Ben raised the pinnacle of the bodybuilding world in 2012 and 2016,

competing in the Mr. Olympia contest and was considered one of the top ten bodybuilders in the world for many years.

He is now redirected that discipline and obsessive

commitment toward his role as a dad, athlete and CEO of his peak performance and longevity

coaching business, muscle intelligence. Ben, welcome. Michael, thanks for the intro. It's an absolute

answer. Ben, I would love to hear what you're seeing on the first line, as it were, of this epidemic from the men that you interact with, the men that you train and coach, the men you see in the gym. What are you seeing that men are struggling with and perhaps give us an antidote from a particular manner to?

Well, first thing I'll say, man, is I grew up,

as I said previously in this family of obese alcoholics, and I wasn't around a lot of very

strong masculine man. I was very blessed. I had one strong masculine masculine, and my grandfather

born and raised in France, came to Canada in my case, and really represented this model for me

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