>>13058090It's a combination of a number of things, a lot of which are endocrine disruptors that we've let contaminate our drinking supply
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7139484/microplastics are just part of the equation. We are really good at wanting one thing to be the problem so we can easily say shit like "lol ban straws", but it will require significant changes to the way western civilization runs before we see a real change in endocrine disruptors are eliminated
In addition, our modern culture is so goddamn far from what the human body was meant to experience on a daily basis that it's no wonder the average person has a less-than-optimal body condition
we don't expose ourself to the sun NEARLY as much as we should, every day, so we have vitamin D deficiencies
we don't exercise, and worse, we've stopped moving and interacting with the physical world. I'm in my 30s, and growing up, we had no cell phones or computers really (I got my first one when I was maybe 12? 14? and it was oregon trail on floppy disks on an macintosh). You HAD to visit your friends to play games together, and you were walking around every hour WAY more than we do now as a society, and we were always outside and engaging our physical senses with the world. The lack of working out and moving seriously reduces testosterone.
We also expect most people to fit into a narrow cultural identity and work a lot. Your psychology and the culture around you plays an immense role in your hormonal changes.
