I tend to subscribe to a lot of health, strength, MA, wrestling, bodybuilding newsletters, hoping to learn something. The quantity is necessary at first because they all tend to be repetetive, redundant, and often full of things I know, so it's a flux of hoping for new things.
Anyway, reading this one, he's talking to this Dr. Wong guy. He talks about men's lowered testosterone, shrinkage, lower sperm count, etc. Now, to be honest, much as we all feel insecure about that, I'm not making it a priority. The idea's to live forever, you can customize your look and sexual appeal later when there's time for it, so my first priority is health, lifespan, and power to contribute to society and science research. The only use for this is sustaining just enough happiness to get by until then.
Even so, he makes some arguments I'm not able to negate, but I do suspect them. They seem sexually discrminatory, beyond what I understand of the varying roles of hormones, and that no response is necessarily good or bad (much like pharmacology) but in lows and highs and in different environments have different effects.
http://www.mikemahler.com/wong2.html
The thing is, it's not just this guy, this thing is becoming quite common among what I read. People believing they can increase hormones through diet to any kind of serious degree, I wonder how true it is. I also suspect the guy since he's not a real MD, or even an OD, but rather one of those 'Naturopaths', not to mention a priest... and seems to be a little fixated on male genitalia size, fertility, and in men playing their traditional role, and women theirs... bias I'd rather not have involved in neutral scientific theory.
So what do you think of these things he brings up? Is test really to be raised to excess, and estrogen lowered? I thought estrogen had some beneficial properties?
In talking about how soy and other phytoestrogens are lowering sperm count, making men passive, well to tell you the truth... it kind of seems like a novel method of population control. Rather cruel, I'd rather just control myself, but since most people seem fixated on uncontrolled breeding, maybe neutering is one solution certain people are enacting behind the scenes? Sounds rather like one of those conspiracy theories though, and I try not to subscribe to them.
