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It's really important to understand that this isn't just about getting an erection. It's not what this is. This is not about erectile dysfunction, okay? It's it's it's far bigger than that.
When you think about the functions of testosterone, one of the functions is the production of sperm. Okay? That affects fertility, that affects birth rates, okay, hugely important. Also the development of the penis and the scrotum. Okay? Because we're also noticing not only our testosterone levels through the floor, but also penis sizes and scrotum sizes are getting smaller and smaller as well too. Okay.
Also, our sexual sort of features and development as well too. So what I mean by that is you'll notice that you know like men and women have very distinct voices. Okay? So as a child or male child hits his puberty his voice changes. Okay? A large part due to the shift in hormones, particularly testosterone. Because you'll notice that as boys and girls are growing, you know, up until about 10, 11 years old, like they're pretty much equal in strength. And then as soon as puberty hits, there's a shift. The boys just get stronger, they get bigger, they get faster, they get they just get more aggressive as well too. Okay.
So, these features, body hair, voice, you know, facial structure, muscle mass, all of these things are changed by testosterone. Libido, um the ability to get an erection, sexual drive, all of these things affected by testosterone, muscle mass, okay, your mood. Okay, we're in a crisis right now where this is probably the point in history where men have in terms of a percentage the highest percentage of men who are committing suicide. Okay? The highest it's ever been in human history. Okay? Now, just put that into context. We went through the middle ages where people were knifing each other. We went through plagues and all of these things. And today could not be more convenient for humans. And despite that, the highest suicide rates like it's almost four times that of women. Okay.
So testosterone affects mood. It affects motivation. Like your drive to set goals and achieve those goals is directly affected by your testosterone levels. You got a higher testosterone level, you set a goal, you're more than likely, you're more likely to achieve that goal. Okay? So, that's really important too as a societal whole and a family whole as well too.
Also, red blood cell production as well too. Testosterone affects that as well too. Bone health, the list goes on and on. These are all the things that testosterone affects. And when your testosterone levels are deficient and plummeting, it affects all of these and even more. And not just for men, for women as well, too. Because even though women are more estrogen dominant, they still need testosterone levels. Okay? So, hugely important. And some of the signs and symptoms of some women with low testosterone is going to be low libido, thinning hair, loss of body hair, uh increase in blood sugar, in increase in insulin in the body as well too, which tells the body to store fat. Okay. um erectile dysfunction, loss of muscle mass, um gynecomastia, which is development of man boobs, all of these things and and much more.
If you look at all of the functions that I named earlier, this is what is not only affecting men's health, it's also affecting how we show up in the world as well, too. All right. So the reason why I'm making that distinction is because it's really important to understand that you can you can really want to set a goal. You can really do everything you can to achieve that goal, but when you're not healthy, you're you're going against your biology. And biology is always going to win. And this is why health is wealth. This is why you have to be the best version of yourself both on the inside and the outside. Okay? And I'm going to explain to you why going the route of using synthetic testosterone is not the way. I'm going to explain to you in just a second.
All right. So, we're going to go through I got about I got about eight major causes. I'm going to give you a bonus as well, too. But it's just really important fellas out there whether I'm speaking to my uncle, you know, my homeboy or whoever you are. First of all, I I want you to know I being a male is very difficult. Being a man is very difficult. All right? And I always explain that to my sisters. I got three sisters and they say, "No, being a man is easy. It's a man's world." And I tell them, I said, "You have no idea how rough we are with each other." You know, when a woman is going through something emotionally, like her sisters come to her like this. When a man is going through something emotionally, we're like, "Pick it up, get it together." And the women around him often are the same ways. Okay? So, it's very difficult to be, you know, a man. And I understand how difficult it is when you're unhealthy, especially in this regard when it comes to testosterone. So, I want to help. And these are the major causes I believe. And I believe if you reverse engineer these causes, we can start to get back to who we truly are and were designed to be. All right.
So one all right the first or and this is in no order of importance but I do think this first one is huge plastics and endocrine disruptors which plastics have these endocrine disruptors in them. Okay, a major cause. You have to think plastic is a relatively new invention and most people when they see plastic, they think to themselves that this is a relatively benign, you know, packaging. Okay? But when you think about it, you go back to the 1950s, how much of anything is in plastic? Virtually nothing. Okay? But today, everything is. Your food is in plastic. Your supplements are in plastic. Everything, your water is in plastic. Everything comes in plastic. The bags you have are plastic. Everything is plastic. Okay? And these plastics, in order to look clear and to have a certain texture, they put certain chemicals in them that are called endocrine disruptors. These endocrine disruptors disrupt your endocrine system. Your endocrine glands are what we're talking about today because your endocrine glands are for instance your thyroid is a gland but your testicles are also a gland. They produce testosterone. So these endocrine disruptors can impact them. Okay.
Now for men the issue is that a lot of your testosterone is being converted into estrogen. Okay, this is what a lot of those endocrine disrupting compounds like phthalates, um, you know, parabens, BPH, uh, BPA where you find in plastic bottles and it say BPA free, but it still could have BPF or BPS in there as well too. They just switch the switch the chemical form, but it's still the same thing. It has the same impact on our health. Okay. So, a lot of the testosterone is being converted into estrogen. As a matter of fact, 80% of estrogen made in a man's body, about 80% of it is made through conversion of testosterone into estrogen. And even for women, it's the same thing. About 15 to 25% of the estrogen made in the body is actually converted from testosterone as well, too. Okay.
Now the issue is that when we start to add in these xenoestrogens, these fake estrogens, now it just increases that conversion rate. Okay, a lot of the testosterone, especially for a man that's being converted. All right, now that's happening due to an enzyme called aromatase. Aromatase is the enzyme that causes the testosterone to be converted into estrogen. All right. And this is what eventually will make women estrogen dominant, but also make start to make men start to become more estrogen dominant as well too. Meaning excess estrogen in the body. Okay? And when you think about it on the grand scheme of things, again, almost everything we're purchasing today comes in some form of plastic. And a lot of these microplastics end up in the water. They end up in the food. as the plastic breaks down as a container for the food. So the average person is consuming about five grams of plastic every year. I'm sorry, every week. All right? So think about that. The average person is consuming about five grams of plastic every week. Five grams of plastic is like the size of a credit card. All right? So imagine just chopping up a credit card and eating it once a week. That's how much plastic we're consuming every week. And this is why it's being so detrimental on our endocrine system and as a result being so detrimental on our testosterone. So, you got to get rid of the plastics.