Charles Cornish-Dale (Raw Egg Nationalist)

You'll get microplastics as well, which are tiny, tiny slivers of plastic that are worn off the surface of the plastic, and you ingest those as well.

And these substances, like I say, they mimic estrogen in the human body.

So what they do is they upset the delicate balance between testosterone and estrogen.

So testosterone and estrogen are essential for both men and women, but just in different ratios.

And if you throw off those ratios, then you can have all sorts of terrible effects.

Yes.

Yeah.

Oh, absolutely.

So, I mean, the book doesn't just focus on environmental factors.

It doesn't just focus on lifestyle factors, the fact that we're getting fatter, the fact that we're more stressed than we ever were.

I mean, modern humans are subject to chronic stress in a way that our hunter-gatherer ancestors never were.

They were subject to acute stress in particular situations, hunting animals, being hunted, fighting.

But we are subject to chronic stress all the time.

But yes, there's this kind of behavioral aspect as well, where if you're not given opportunities to behave like a man and to do things that are satisfying as a man, to win, to compete, to find a mate, to find a romantic partner,

All of these different things also have effects on testosterone levels as well.

And so actually, you end up in what's basically like a downward spiral.

We've got all of these environmental factors that are affecting men and making it much more difficult for men to be men, lowering their testosterone levels.

But then you've also created a society that actually

doesn't give men any any sort of real outlets for masculine behavior and for their masculine impulses and so it's it's a spiral it all feeds into all all these factors feed into one another and they're they're really you know that's the reason why this crisis actually is so serious and is and is you know taking on this basically civilizational character well there's also a uh you know a

Oh, yes, yeah.