65 year old men had 1200 ng/dL Testosterone 50 years ago
Roughly 50 years ago, extremely healthy 60-70 year old men had Testosterone levels around 1000-1200 ng/dL. Today, the average young 25 year old man only has about 500 ng/dL.
You’ve probably heard those statements before: “Testosterone levels are dropping rapidly each generation”. “Your grandpa had more testosterone than you” etc. But those statements don’t really alarm the average person, until you dive deep into the research and show them how bad it REALLY is, and why they should be seriously concerned about their health as men.
In this study on Finnish men, the average testosterone level of 60-70 year old men ~50 years ago was around 638 ng/dL. To put that in perspective, the average young man today only has around 500 ng/dL total Testosterone levels. Yes, that means that the average SIXTY TO SEVENTY YEAR OLD man back then had HIGHER testosterone levels than the average 25 year old man today.
But the crazy part is that out of those 60-70 year old men, the extremely healthy ones (usually the men in the 95th percentile) had Testosterone levels averaging around the 1200 ng/dL range. That is absolutely insane!!
Meanwhile, young men today in the 95th percentile usually average around 900 ng/dL, depending on who the study was performed on. Also, the difference between the super high testosterone old men and the super high testosterone young men back then was negligible (they were both around the 1200-1300 range), which further debunks the disastrous myth that age lowers testosterone levels (newsflash, it doesn’t, that myth spread due to marketing efforts from the nearly $2 Billion dollar TRT industry, and due to correlational fallacy from poorly-done studies, but that’s a topic for another video and article).
Now of course, that doesn’t mean that those old men back then were walking around looking like master Roshi in his bulked up form (high natural testosterone levels do very little for your muscle mass if you don’t resistance train, eat healthy and exercise), but it does show us how far we’ve fallen as a society.
And no, contrary to popular belief, the primary reason for this huge generational drop in testosterone levels is not endocrine disruptors, toxins, and BPA in plastics etc.. Those play a role, but a marginal one compared to the REAL root cause of low testosterone, which is chronic inflammation and oxidative stress from the HORRIBLE modern diet which is void of key testosterone boosting nutrients like zinc, choline, boron, and more (S, S, S, S).
Note: P.A stands for “Phytic Acid”, and RDA stands for Recommended Daily Allowance
Micronutrients (vitamins and minerals) and antioxidants are at the foundation of testosterone production. They influence every single steroidogenesis process, and are involved in every single step of hormone production, from the hypothalamus and pituitary all the way down to the testes and adrenals. Yet our modern diet is more nutrient deficient than it has ever been due to horrible farming processes, horrible eating patterns, extremely low RDA standards for most nutrients, reckless supplementation by those attempting to skip the basics, and much more.
I’ll cover the reasons behind the generational drop in testosterone in future videos and articles, but in the meantime, vow to get your male health back on track and boost your testosterone levels NATURALLY. You owe it to yourself and your grandpa — he was a TRUE alpha male.
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