The Pentagon now screens troops 30 and older for testosterone deficiency, but young men's levels fell 25% before enlistment, and TRT alone can't fix that.
It’s best to get your news from many sources. Seems that you are eating up the propaganda being spewed by the left. Updated news says there are no sailors, jumping off ships in the Gulf. Just sailors complaining.
I guess this reporting of fake news must be these low T boys looking for shore leave.
and Hegseth made some kind of non-denial-denial saying the media was distorting things, calling families of sailors liars, in effect.
There is this thing called "reality". It is generally misrepresented to serve powerful interests.
The Persian Gulf WAS being supplied by US navy bases, like in Bahrain. Those bases were destroyed by Iran. The military evacuated them.
The Lincoln and other USN vessels are now being supplied from the timy island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean, more than 2000 miles distant. No fresh produce can be supplied.
This was not planned. This is losing a war.
The first rule of holes is that if you find yourself in a hole, Stop Digging.
First off, saying " Pete is right is laughable. He is hands down the most unqualified Secretary of Defense that has EVER been appointed. Secondly, our service members to not need more testosterone in order to serve their Country. They need better leaders who know what the hell they are doing, who actually CARE about what they need. They need leaders who won't go into a war with absolutely no plan and no reason to be there.
Perhaps Hegseth should devote some more attention to making sure that US sailors and marines have better nutrition and can live in sanitary conditions too, but he's conspicuously silent about that subject.
I'm a thyroid patient. My doctor thought that my symptoms were due to low testosterone. He said they are very similar and listed them. However, I've noticed that once I got an optimal dose of liothyronine (T3) in my system, the muscle weakness and other symptoms receded.
The fluoride in our water and medications, the bromine and bromide in fire retardant and bread dough conditioners, the chlorine in our water and swimming pools all deplete iodine in our bodies. Thyroid hormones (T4, T3, T2, & T1) are all made from iodine molecules. Without iodine, we fail to function optimally.
"Medicine" has been taught to test a pituitary hormone to assess thyroid function. (No, it doesn't make sense to me either.) And prescribe a storage hormone, T4, to improve the situation. Sadly, this doesn't help many of us because we don't convert effectively. Consequently, our TSH looks great but our Free T3 is still low and we suffer.
Mercury is prevalent in our environment. Too many of us have or had mercury based amalgam fillings. Amalgam is a mixture; it's NOT chemically bonded so each element can separate independently from the others. Mercury does this. It has a low boiling point and is liquid at room temperature. It vaporizes in the warm environment of the mouth and either travels up through the soft pallet or hitches a ride on our breath, travels to the lungs, and flows through our bodies via our blood stream. Mercury has an affinity for organs and settles in the brain, thyroid, etc.
The properties of these elements are known. They are facts. That we use them inappropriately in the 21st century is insane!
HHS Kennedy just closed the GRAS loophole in food. It's time to close the BS loopholes in medicine. If the military wants healthy young recruits, get the toxins out of our lifestyles. Remove mercury from dentistry and medicine. Have morticians pull the mercury amalgam filled teeth from the dead and dispose of it property so that it's not vaporized in cremation and released into the atmosphere. Do we really need fire retardants sprayed on all of our home furnishings? They never performed as advertised. Fluorine is a toxin. Get it out of our water. It makes bones brittle and does nothing for teeth when injected systemically.
Industry is allowed to harm Americans for profit and that's disgusting.
You are so right. Industries have no checks. Our government does not make sure that products are not harmful to people and the environment. The Food Industry products are loaded with toxic additives. The Medical Industry products, drugs and vaccines, will not cure anyone, they accelerate bad health. Medicare is the biggest drug dealership in the US, dispensing drugs and vaccines. The electronics industry provides products, which radiate the brain. The Chemical Industry is inundating the world with chemicals. Every Person's bloodstream is loaded with chemicals today. Intelligent people learn to educate themselves about health and the environmental hazards they face. They must depend on themselves, in order to be healthy. Good health is a DIY project.
It really appears that way! However, I try to focus on doing something positive every day, which will be good for myself and others, in order to make a difference.
May I suggest the unspeakable, and open myself up to every angry lunatic trolling these posts: that testosterone level is related, in part, to a brain-body loop? Just observation, no science to back me up, but is it possible that by treating boys like girls you can turn them into girls? Yes, to my adamantine sisters at Barnard, the world has known too much testosterone; we unarmed female masses would have been better off with a lower-T Genghis Khan, Julius Caesar, and George Patton, but could it maybe have gotten out of hand? If we ladies insist on grabbing every stick and stone from a male toddler's hand, delivering Barbies to little boys and making them play NICELY (that is, play exactly as WE would play), encouraging teenage fellows to explore their feelings with novels about misunderstood young women instead of how-to books on almost anything except human psychology, and responding to every friendly sexual advance they make towards us as if it were an attack while reminding them how lucky they are to be who they are, could we be contributing to a masculinity problem? Will returning men to their pre-millenium testoterone levels by letting them flex their guy brains create more problems than the mind-numbing pharmaceuticals we already subject them to, sometimes from the age of four or five, because they don't think or act or FEEL like their lady teachers, psychologists and school administrators? I really doubt it. And at least we'll have the problems the human race has dealt with for its previous 20,000 years of urban history, which will in part involve females re-learning how to deal with a type of human that is, in fact, quite different from us
This reminds me of touring a daycare with my toddler son and watching a daycare worker snatch a stick out of a little boy's hand. She was horrified that he had managed to find a stick on their stickless, flowerless, bare ground playground. Picking up sticks was my son's everyday occupation from the time he learned to walk until he was about 6. One day he found a stick that had the shape of a gun, and boy, was he the envy of every other little boy at the playground that day. This stuff is innate. And I do believe you're right that treating our little boys like little girls and insisting they act more like little girls has probably contributed to their lower levels of testosterone.
No one ever addresses the huge amounts of estrogen women ingested throughout the 60’s when high dose birth control pills flooded the market. I’m a big believer this may have harmed a generation of boys and their offspring. All of the gender confusion and huge amounts of gayness may have started with the flood of high dose birth control pills.
That was the goal. Lower testosterone in order to subdue America to globalist deep state entities. America is the prize and the door. If we go, the world goes.
The 25% decline in testosterone levels between 1999 and 2026 parallels a 60% decline in magnesium intake "over the last 100 years from about 500 mg/day to 175–225 mg/day. This is likely a result of the increasing use of fertilizers and processed foods” (Gröber et al., “Magnesium in Prevention,” 2015). Increasing magnesium intake of military personnel would be a better way to increase testosterone levels than direct supplementation with testosterone.
Magnesium helps boost testosterone levels by inhibiting the affinity of sex hormone-binding globulin (SHBG) for testosterone, leaving more bioavailable testosterone circulating in the blood. Magnesium protects the testosterone-synthesizing Leydig cells from oxidative stress and free radicals, supports key enzymes involved in converting precursor molecules into testosterone, and helps reduce excess cortisol, which otherwise suppresses testosterone production.
On the other hand, supplementing with testosterone will cause a negative feedback loop resulting in the body stopping production of its own testosterone, possibly leading to testicular shrinkage, halting of sperm production, and temporary or permanent infertility, with a possible lifelong dependence on synthetic hormone use. Treatment with testosterone may also cause overproduction of red blood cells, increasing the viscosity of the blood and the risk of blood clots, strokes, and heart issues.
While you're at it, please revamp the entire Physical Education part of school. It should be based on individual exercises like weight training, aerobics, yoga, etc.
Nobody develops lifelong healthy habits from dodgeball or flag football. Gym class is nothing but another popularity contest and opportunity to bully the less agile kids.
It isn't just the military that is facing low testosterone. The hormones given to animals to fatten them up wind up in humans, when they are eaten, such as, beef cattle. Many American males eat hamburgers and meat. Potent Hormones are given to the cows to increase their milk without thought of what they will do to the consumer. Soy foods are another food source, which creates low testosterone. Our government is totally ignorant about health. Its answer is more medical intervention to handle all the sick people bad diet causes.
Ordinary consumption of American beef, poultry, dairy, and soy isn't a cause of declining male testosterone. There's no evidence for this - not even for soy.
Let's get some fresh fruit, vegetables and toilet paper to the sailors jumping off the Lincoln, and get them some shore-leave first, OK?
It's ok not to "make the Persian Gulf a US territory".
Testosterone goes up with vigorous daily outdoor exercise. It's ok to do that first, and to eat food without ingredients you can't read out loud.
It’s best to get your news from many sources. Seems that you are eating up the propaganda being spewed by the left. Updated news says there are no sailors, jumping off ships in the Gulf. Just sailors complaining.
I guess this reporting of fake news must be these low T boys looking for shore leave.
One sailor DID jump off, 6 were restrained by crewmates, Trump said 9 months at sea is "not nearly long enough" https://xcancel.com/zerohedge/status/2088784086596759672
and Hegseth made some kind of non-denial-denial saying the media was distorting things, calling families of sailors liars, in effect.
There is this thing called "reality". It is generally misrepresented to serve powerful interests.
The Persian Gulf WAS being supplied by US navy bases, like in Bahrain. Those bases were destroyed by Iran. The military evacuated them.
The Lincoln and other USN vessels are now being supplied from the timy island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean, more than 2000 miles distant. No fresh produce can be supplied.
This was not planned. This is losing a war.
The first rule of holes is that if you find yourself in a hole, Stop Digging.
True! Things are great for all the Sailors stuck in that carrier group. Like the King says, they haven't been out there long enough.
First off, saying " Pete is right is laughable. He is hands down the most unqualified Secretary of Defense that has EVER been appointed. Secondly, our service members to not need more testosterone in order to serve their Country. They need better leaders who know what the hell they are doing, who actually CARE about what they need. They need leaders who won't go into a war with absolutely no plan and no reason to be there.
They need more cosplay, and shiny objects for phringe.
RIGHT ON SPENCER! Well put.
Thank you
Perhaps Hegseth should devote some more attention to making sure that US sailors and marines have better nutrition and can live in sanitary conditions too, but he's conspicuously silent about that subject.
Not quite silent. When asked, he rants about "fake news," and attacks journalists.
I'm a thyroid patient. My doctor thought that my symptoms were due to low testosterone. He said they are very similar and listed them. However, I've noticed that once I got an optimal dose of liothyronine (T3) in my system, the muscle weakness and other symptoms receded.
The fluoride in our water and medications, the bromine and bromide in fire retardant and bread dough conditioners, the chlorine in our water and swimming pools all deplete iodine in our bodies. Thyroid hormones (T4, T3, T2, & T1) are all made from iodine molecules. Without iodine, we fail to function optimally.
"Medicine" has been taught to test a pituitary hormone to assess thyroid function. (No, it doesn't make sense to me either.) And prescribe a storage hormone, T4, to improve the situation. Sadly, this doesn't help many of us because we don't convert effectively. Consequently, our TSH looks great but our Free T3 is still low and we suffer.
Mercury is prevalent in our environment. Too many of us have or had mercury based amalgam fillings. Amalgam is a mixture; it's NOT chemically bonded so each element can separate independently from the others. Mercury does this. It has a low boiling point and is liquid at room temperature. It vaporizes in the warm environment of the mouth and either travels up through the soft pallet or hitches a ride on our breath, travels to the lungs, and flows through our bodies via our blood stream. Mercury has an affinity for organs and settles in the brain, thyroid, etc.
The properties of these elements are known. They are facts. That we use them inappropriately in the 21st century is insane!
HHS Kennedy just closed the GRAS loophole in food. It's time to close the BS loopholes in medicine. If the military wants healthy young recruits, get the toxins out of our lifestyles. Remove mercury from dentistry and medicine. Have morticians pull the mercury amalgam filled teeth from the dead and dispose of it property so that it's not vaporized in cremation and released into the atmosphere. Do we really need fire retardants sprayed on all of our home furnishings? They never performed as advertised. Fluorine is a toxin. Get it out of our water. It makes bones brittle and does nothing for teeth when injected systemically.
Industry is allowed to harm Americans for profit and that's disgusting.
You are so right. Industries have no checks. Our government does not make sure that products are not harmful to people and the environment. The Food Industry products are loaded with toxic additives. The Medical Industry products, drugs and vaccines, will not cure anyone, they accelerate bad health. Medicare is the biggest drug dealership in the US, dispensing drugs and vaccines. The electronics industry provides products, which radiate the brain. The Chemical Industry is inundating the world with chemicals. Every Person's bloodstream is loaded with chemicals today. Intelligent people learn to educate themselves about health and the environmental hazards they face. They must depend on themselves, in order to be healthy. Good health is a DIY project.
Everything is bad, always.
Not everything and not always, but it feels that way.
It really appears that way! However, I try to focus on doing something positive every day, which will be good for myself and others, in order to make a difference.
Your low testosterone is really low T3. Get thyroids healthy and the other hormones will fall in line.
RonJohnPaul just dropped another email. The smokingest-gun yet. Better get on it. Drip. Drip.
May I suggest the unspeakable, and open myself up to every angry lunatic trolling these posts: that testosterone level is related, in part, to a brain-body loop? Just observation, no science to back me up, but is it possible that by treating boys like girls you can turn them into girls? Yes, to my adamantine sisters at Barnard, the world has known too much testosterone; we unarmed female masses would have been better off with a lower-T Genghis Khan, Julius Caesar, and George Patton, but could it maybe have gotten out of hand? If we ladies insist on grabbing every stick and stone from a male toddler's hand, delivering Barbies to little boys and making them play NICELY (that is, play exactly as WE would play), encouraging teenage fellows to explore their feelings with novels about misunderstood young women instead of how-to books on almost anything except human psychology, and responding to every friendly sexual advance they make towards us as if it were an attack while reminding them how lucky they are to be who they are, could we be contributing to a masculinity problem? Will returning men to their pre-millenium testoterone levels by letting them flex their guy brains create more problems than the mind-numbing pharmaceuticals we already subject them to, sometimes from the age of four or five, because they don't think or act or FEEL like their lady teachers, psychologists and school administrators? I really doubt it. And at least we'll have the problems the human race has dealt with for its previous 20,000 years of urban history, which will in part involve females re-learning how to deal with a type of human that is, in fact, quite different from us
This reminds me of touring a daycare with my toddler son and watching a daycare worker snatch a stick out of a little boy's hand. She was horrified that he had managed to find a stick on their stickless, flowerless, bare ground playground. Picking up sticks was my son's everyday occupation from the time he learned to walk until he was about 6. One day he found a stick that had the shape of a gun, and boy, was he the envy of every other little boy at the playground that day. This stuff is innate. And I do believe you're right that treating our little boys like little girls and insisting they act more like little girls has probably contributed to their lower levels of testosterone.
I believe as you do.
Petey knows, and Bobby and Kate. They know.
Tasty start to the week, this sludge sandwich.
No one ever addresses the huge amounts of estrogen women ingested throughout the 60’s when high dose birth control pills flooded the market. I’m a big believer this may have harmed a generation of boys and their offspring. All of the gender confusion and huge amounts of gayness may have started with the flood of high dose birth control pills.
it is food, water, environmental factors as they say. autism is headed to 1 in every 2. look more: https://marcellapiperterry.substack.com/p/autism-spectrum-disorder-and-gender?r=r4a8k&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
But not among the Amish.
That was the goal. Lower testosterone in order to subdue America to globalist deep state entities. America is the prize and the door. If we go, the world goes.
Performative testosterone thing is gone - https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/09/pentagon-releases-then-quickly-removes-testosterone-screening-policy/
The 25% decline in testosterone levels between 1999 and 2026 parallels a 60% decline in magnesium intake "over the last 100 years from about 500 mg/day to 175–225 mg/day. This is likely a result of the increasing use of fertilizers and processed foods” (Gröber et al., “Magnesium in Prevention,” 2015). Increasing magnesium intake of military personnel would be a better way to increase testosterone levels than direct supplementation with testosterone.
Magnesium helps boost testosterone levels by inhibiting the affinity of sex hormone-binding globulin (SHBG) for testosterone, leaving more bioavailable testosterone circulating in the blood. Magnesium protects the testosterone-synthesizing Leydig cells from oxidative stress and free radicals, supports key enzymes involved in converting precursor molecules into testosterone, and helps reduce excess cortisol, which otherwise suppresses testosterone production.
On the other hand, supplementing with testosterone will cause a negative feedback loop resulting in the body stopping production of its own testosterone, possibly leading to testicular shrinkage, halting of sperm production, and temporary or permanent infertility, with a possible lifelong dependence on synthetic hormone use. Treatment with testosterone may also cause overproduction of red blood cells, increasing the viscosity of the blood and the risk of blood clots, strokes, and heart issues.
While you're at it, please revamp the entire Physical Education part of school. It should be based on individual exercises like weight training, aerobics, yoga, etc.
Nobody develops lifelong healthy habits from dodgeball or flag football. Gym class is nothing but another popularity contest and opportunity to bully the less agile kids.
It isn't just the military that is facing low testosterone. The hormones given to animals to fatten them up wind up in humans, when they are eaten, such as, beef cattle. Many American males eat hamburgers and meat. Potent Hormones are given to the cows to increase their milk without thought of what they will do to the consumer. Soy foods are another food source, which creates low testosterone. Our government is totally ignorant about health. Its answer is more medical intervention to handle all the sick people bad diet causes.
Ordinary consumption of American beef, poultry, dairy, and soy isn't a cause of declining male testosterone. There's no evidence for this - not even for soy.
Now retweet this.
Which hormones in cattle feed affect human testosterone levels? And by what mechanisms?