Oddbean new post about login | logout It's likely a correlation between: Amount of processed foods eaten Amount of pesticides on and in foods Amount of environmental synthetic birth control hormones Emphasis on high carb, low protein, low healthy fats consumed Amount of seed oils consumed Lack of running around outside growing up Houses being too well sealed/never experiencing hot and cold extremes Poor sleeping habits Being fat (effects aside from poor eating habits and bad foods, it's really bad for people) Lack of fitness Too much medication Lack of healthy gut biome Not eating traditional fermented foods Too much alcohol Too much cannabis Too little motivation toward actual physical sexual relationships (probably from much too young exposure to porn and all the beauty influencers) Too much social media leading to dopamine addiction Et cetera.
Those were my immediate assumptions too, more or less. I would have also been prepared for more obscure psychosocial explanations - status of men/masculinity, size of social groups, locus of control. But no - look, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan are at opposite extremes. WTF...?
Yeah those two (Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan) are what’s throwing me off… 😵💫
Belarus vs Russia/Ukraine, too.
But I know this famous chocolate from Kazakhstan has a flavor enhancer (I know because I’m allergic to it) so maybe they add that in other foods? Maybe Uzbekistan does not use that?
China LOVES its flavour enhancer 621, but they're upper-middle for T.
@StellaInForest is gonna love this, look at the map: https://testosteronedecline.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Testosterone-Levels-Worldwide-full-size.png It correlates with war. Look at the Balkans.
