@@r-type4945 I care about those I interact with in reality, and only those close to me. Not fake online personas people develop. Not caring for comparison, but out of care for the person, and our relationship. I do of course compare myself to them still, but not in a pathologic way. Perhaps I have more wins than losses, so it's not a big deal to me? But the comparisons I make, cause me no stress.
@@r-type4945 No, nobody can prove that. We can train ourselves to not care about other people. We are the product of our environment and experience! That's why meditation is so useful tool!
Passivity is a motivation/symptom of depression. Some internet content gives you the idea of doing something useful but it will only be useful when you put it at pratice. Without the pratice you become passive, depressed and with low T
I think you guys fail to forget that these influencers are humans too... There's always someone "better" than you, even if you're a rich influencer. The same guys are probably looking at other even richer and even more "alpha" men than themselves and getting the negative effects. Nobody wins in social media. Everyone just loses and feels jealous of one another.
idk if creating a positive feedback loop where you feel great for relating to misery is the best idea. but i get it, it's just a coping mechanism, i'd suggest at least just trying to make sure it doesn't end up being how u live ur whole life; cuz my guess is that it's extremely easy to live ur whole life like that.
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Summary Testosterone (T) makes you more: • Confident * In social groups * When approaching strangers * When approaching women * With eye contact • More muscle, less fat, stronger bones • Happier, less depressed • More motivated, successful T is self reinforcing: • More T leads to more T • Lower T leads to lower T Things which influence your T level: Increase • Being high in the hierarchy, prestige • Talking to women • Exercising • Winning competition, game • Seeing your team win • Social win Decrease • Being low in the hierarchy • Instagram: Looking at people with higher status/wealth/looks lowers your testosterone. You seel low in the hierarchy and subordinate • Losing • Social defeat • Being bullied
None of which that actually states the real reason why men are suffering from low T. 1. Tap water, shower and drinking water 2. Plastic containers 3. Polyester based clothing 4. See oils. 5. Lack of sun 6. Lack of exercise 7. Lack of proper sleep 8. Being around technology too much 9. Catering to woman's wants and desires 10. Alcohol 11. Junk food 12. Not eating our species specific diet (we are carnivores) 13. Living too comfortably 14. Not being stoic as in your lifestyle 15. Not facing your inner struggles and addressing them to reduce stress List goes on and on. There are 15 things you can work on right now to help your hormone levels.
@@austinmeredith6647 Thank you for this , this was a video stating only the problems without answers if not for this comment. And I would like to add to this the dramatic presentation may not do justice to how stable or tolerant T really is , this cycle is not that fragile .
I quit social media a little over a year ago and I've never felt better, working out every day getting straight A's in college. It's definitely worth a try.
TheShubLub it’s not much different, companies like Facebook and IG hire social engineers to find ways to make their platforms release as much dopamine as possible when you get on it
@@jonathanchilds930 i'm addicted to youtube there are some informative channels but always drifts toward entertainment, and waste my time how can i stop this?
@c v wish i was that easy but i'm trying unsubscribing to all the channels that are distracting, mark videos as not interested in my feed and will try to remember not to get distracted hopefully it will help
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Why should you even care that much about your testosterone? I really don't understand. If it is too low, go to the doctor, if it is too high, go to the doctor. But if you care about your masculinity that much then maybe you should go to the doctor too, just not your usual one.
Having too low of testosterone makes a person physically weak, muscles shrink. In addition they jump to emotional stress quicker without any reason. Having high testosterone is a birthright for every male on Earth.
and give yourself some short term goals that you can accoplish fairly quickly which will increase your self worth and testosterone - repeat repeat etc.
I get it, the key to success is: Make money, Buy testosterone, Make more money, Buy more testosterone . . . And eventually become Arnold Schwarzenegger
@@Akileshg1 actually, if you get your body addicted to external testosterone and than suddenly stop taking it, your natural levels will be very low, in that moment man boobs can appear. If you use it the right way, it's completely safe
@@19374hklmaq and where are your brilliant observations and conclusions on life which helped millions of people take action to start making their lives better?
The voyeurism aspect of it really messes with your brain’s balance. Porn addiction is the reason for so many mental health problems. I implore everyone to do their research to understand it’s effects. From credible sources and do not succumb to confirmation bias (looking only for things that support your view).
@shannon dove that’s the thing, that’s WHY you can’t get a woman. Back in the day a man had to work hard to even see a naked woman (talking to a woman, taking her out on dates, proving yourself to be a man, showing the many products of your success, etc) where as these days men get it for free at the click of their fingers. See what I’m saying? If you’re fat you’d work out to attract women, if you’re broke you’d study and/or get a well paying job to attract a wife, etc. It’s way too easy nowadays since you don’t have to work on yourself to see a woman naked let alone a woman having sex (you still aren’t the one having sex so you lose every time). That’s one of the reasons why men have testosterone, it’s motivation to better yourself to attract a mate. Men are amazing as is but especially when they utilise their testosterone, it’s literally the backbone to every society and what has helped build the ancient and modern world
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I don't have a job, girlfriend or social status. When compared with others I'm at the bottom of the social hierarchy. But I am probably happier than people you may see on Instagram. Why? It's because my happiness and well-being does not depend on outside phenomena.
@Dan M I think it's a Buddhist concept indeed. This is exactly what those Buddhist meditations have taught me: happiness coming from the inside out, and not the other way around. Hierarchy and status are just concepts anyway, and both come with their own dependencies. Dependency is what creates sorrow and Buddhists know this.
I always wondered why would someone watch a sport the don't practice, and if they like watching a particular sport why won't they start to practice it, sometimes it drives me crazy trying to understand that
@@juanlastra3502 Because seeing professional athlete doing things that are hard for common people is simply mesmerizing and fun to watch, like dunking in basketball for example. That's one of the reason.
A lot of my low testosterone and anxiety comes from my middle school days where I was like the last person to hit puberty, automatically putting me at the bottom of the social hierarchy for years, at the time I just accepted I was a little kid and all the girls though I was “cute” and that has affected me ever since.
I was bullied because my eye sockets are slightly asymmetric, which makes it look as if my eyes were cross-eyed at times, despite it being tested not to be the case. Now whenever I get complimented, I can never take it seriously, in fact, I always feel like I'm being made fun of. Additionally, I'm a very anxious person, social interaction is hard and I can only interact with women from a professional or friendly POV, which deepens my feelings of inadequacy and subordination. That said, I'm physically fit, I'm considered smart by everyone around me and I guess that by most's standards, I'm successful. Going to try to be more dominant from today onwards. Gotta fake it till you make it, some would say.
A thought i had while watching this was that we need to stop demonizing masculine traits (Especially in our youth). Sure Testosterone can make men territorial, aggressive, or violent but it also brings out leadership, drive, and charisma.
I think it all goes down to how we let external things like social media affect our lives. As Marcus Aurelius said in Meditations: "You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."
@@gabbar51ngh most men have burned out dopamine receptor, sadly mostly young men, I am struggling for a lot of time myself but at least I realize the damage, try exercise(lifting). it's even harder for a man of solitude like myself. But I try to cope with finding new sounds.
If testosterone is so directly linked to social dominance, why does it reduce due to marriage and fatherhood? Does having a family make you instantly less dominant? The relation between testosterone and dominance should be more complicated to account for this.
That’s not it at all. You have less testosterone because you’ve settled down and can enjoy meaningful relationships you’ve tried so hard to acquire (because of the testosterone). Take a look at the hormones that increase after getting married and having a baby.
Testosterone also falls with age (peak for man is around 18-26 years old, then it slowly falls). I think it is most possibly a correlation not causation that married man with children would have lower testosterone.
Testosterone makes you seek a mate. When you find one, it drops to a level where the seeking behavior is more in the background and other hormones like vasopressin rise to ensure that you keep bonding with that mate to keep raising high-quality offspring, plus those hormones raise your life expectancy. Some of those hormones actually make you more dominant, but in a much more considerate and family-oriented way than the ego-dominance of testosterone. An unhappy or incompatible bond can reduce those hormones, causing depression and health problems due to the low level of all hormones. That is for the majority of people, but not for some. For some their testosterone level never drops and they usually don't produce offspring in the modern world due to making many shallow bonds due to the seeking behavior not weakening or produce low quality offspring (single mothers/serial cheating problems leading to parental fighting and secrecy leading to disconnection between family members) but probably higher quantity of offspring. Those are also the people the majority of non-bonded (and unhappily bonded) people compare themselves to because they seem to have a much better chance at finding more high-quality mates. Basically, your body already has a reproductive strategy, be it quality or whatever.
It IS more complicated. The research suggests that men with lower T are more likely to be and stay married to begin with. This is all about investment tradeoffs and life history theory. Basically you either invest in reproduction or longevity. You either have a fast life strategy: having lots of sex, spreading your seed, earlier death, displays of aggression, competing for dominance and status, and high T. OR you have a slow life strategy: low T, less dominance, longer lifespan, more monogamous and a focus on investing resources into one relationship. This is why the act of committing in a relationship lowers T, because high T is conducive to fast life strategies and polygamous reproduction. Men who ARE married and have higher T don't stay monogamously married for long..
Something I feel is important to add to the discussion is that acute changes in testosterone are normal, and micromanaging these is not only unlikely to lead to positive outcomes, but also complicate life needlessly. Heavy squatting and other compound lifts, for example, has been shown to produce a great spike in testosterone. This has led to a lot of ineffective advice being given; always include heavy compounds to produce a test spike and maximize anabolism. There is no evidence that this actually works, and you wouldn't expect it to if you understand that what matters for anabolism is the area under the curve over time.
You kind of contradict yourself. You first say heavy squatting and compound lifts have been shown to spike testosterone levels. And then say this is inaffective advice??
One of the most interesting videos I've seen in a while. The workings of hormones is such an abstract concept to me, and I love how you present the connection between social hierarchy and testosterone. Thanks for the video!
I don't think you get this enough, so I just want to thank you for making these videos. I learn a lot and actually use them in my own life to make it better.
@@pai64 Trick your mind and then it will. "You're the only one who can provide this money to her, you're her provider and dominator and she needs this from you, not you from her!" boom - brain bypassed - as long as you can actually convince yourself of things and cast the doubt outside of your mind instead of trying to shrink it and hide it at the back of your mind where you don't look, can cause the big spike. I have a theory that 'confidence' is really just the casting away of doubt, so whenever an opportunity to confront doubt arises and you win and then feel that confidence boost that's actually your testosterone spiking.
i am so so happy, that i accidentely found this video because it just sums up and puts into words my thoughts for the last year! 2020 wasn´t easy and maybe or pretty sure social media was just another negative source to our mental health. we probably spend way much time than usual scrolling through instagram over and over due to beeing stuck at home.
@@DS-uo1zy i try hard everday to limit my screentime and it works :) Also sports bring a lot of relief and balance in my life. So i would say definitely better than 2 years ago :) How about you?
I found glaring problems with this one... It is a correlation, not a causation for the higher status males to have higher testosterone levels. I see no evidence presented here to PROVE anything was directly causing anything else. And the argument could easily be made that BECAUSE they had higher levels of test, is why they achieved the higher status, and not the other way around. Get it ~ It surprised me that this wasn't even mentioned. Additionally, using the same logic, it's perhaps the men with low testosterone are the ones that prefer to use Instagram, instead of the argument made here that it actually causes it. The fact is, we don't yet know either way.
You make an excellent point, except we do have evidence that it is causation. Take a look at the body of literature on "winner-loser effects". In animal models we can manipulate the outcomes of winning/losing fights by rigging the outcome of fights. For example we can pair a randomly selected male with a really crappy male that we know will likely lose in order to experimentally generate winners. With these methods, we still see winners experience a "winner effect" that translates into boosts in testosterone, increase in social status, higher odds of winning another fight, and higher success in obtaining mates.
@aititnas anybody who knows basic biology and psychology would know that you can’t claim anything as ‘evident’ or ‘intuitive’ without actual evidence. The whole ‘correlation =/= causation’ thing is practically a core fundamental of science. Just because something intuitively makes sense doesn’t mean you can draw conclusions
There are plenty of examples of people with hypogonadism or clinically low test levels that came up in bloodworks that got TRT and the boost in testosterone directly translated to more confidence and success in general. CEOs of companies who are woman also have higher than average testosterone levels, there's plenty to look at that shows this effect to be real, even through observations and testing of animals in the wild and seeing testosterone levels before and after fights etc. When he have a debate/confrontation with someone even just an ideological fight of wits if you feel you came out on top you will get a testosterone spike.
I'm getting testosterone injections weekly and can confirm if you really have low testosterone and manage to increase testosterone by medication or changes to lifestyle/diet will greatly help reducing social anxiety.
I am a woman and have higher testosterone than even some men haha. Lower voice, smaller chest, love to win and compete, and stronger faster muscles. This makes so much sense now. That's why I attract men who are more on the feminine side, or have lower testosterone.
i think it depends on who you follow ,i only follow people that inspire me (and some meme pages:D ) .. Mcgregor said something like : Some people will look at the things you do and get inspired others will shell up and critique and be negative towards about it, but one thing is for sure people who take inspiration will also one day experience that life ,this is human nature some people go one way some people go the other way..
@@JW0121 don't think so. It's not offered as an unprompted, gratuitous comment. It's in direct respons to WIL comment. The folks whose lives revolve around IG have no idea how many people aren't interested. Ditto twatter
Do click baity titles lower your testosterone? Does reading studies about raising your testosterone lower your testosterone? Does looking at testosterone increase your testosterone? Does Testosterone stoss your terone? Testosterone testerone testosterone? Yes testosterone.
Dunbars number really isn’t a reliable metric for people we assert as our dominance hierarchy. Firstly it was achieved with frankly dishonest logarithmic scales mapping the number of identifications apes have in their brain and adjusting for human brain size(which we have yet to assert is logically consistent). Bees, birds and many other animals travel in far larger groups with far smaller brains. Secondly, as you outlined, the mean groupings were 150, meaning a considerable amount of people don’t fall anywhere close to this metric. Weddings are attended only by people you like, so they’re not even a similar to a dominance hierarchy of people as people you don’t like aren’t included. Lastly, it’s easy to take a number like 150 and retroactively assert a bunch of arbitrary statistics that retroactively support this view, but consider the clear counter example the fact most people follow far more than 200 people on Instagram. Simply read Dunbar’s papers. His statistics are based on weak assumptions about the brain. His correlations are contrived. Neurology is new field. Many findings are headline grabbing yes, but they are not being replicated as easily.
I got addicted to Twitch for a few weeks during the pandemic. And then it struck me that it is nonsense. I actually feel really sorry for people who spectate there everyday.
@@benjamin2667 Get off that. You're missing out on life. Get a different passion, hobby, craft, or study something. You literally do not get anything out of watching streams other than shallow entertainment.
my testosteron is very high yet I have quite severe social anxiety so this link does not apply to me. Then again I am on the autism spectrum so for me social anxiety is more the result of "being afraid to overstimulate" than feeling "less dominant". Interesting topic!
It seems What I've Learned planned this video backwards: he let his low-testosterone hypothesis inform his research, setting the stage for yet another lesson in confirmation bias, much like many of his other videos about heart disease, cholesterol and diet. No other viewpoints are considered, only his, making for an unconvincing video. This video makes massive leaps of faith and is a gross oversimplification of a variety of topics whose complexity has not been given any respect. The author is trying to directly link mental health, depression, mood, status, hierarchies, anxiety, visual feedback, human interaction to testosterone levels, when the evidence for a causal relationship or even a correlation is contradictory, scarce and unreliable, even if it may weakly point in a certain direction. For example, aromatase inhibitors, as well as SERMs and SARMs significantly raise testosterone, but not a single positive health outcome has been proven in men in terms of mental health and muscle mass. It would also help to include all citations in the video description.
Came here searching for a voice of reason and was amazed at how few there were. This video deserves its own 1 hour long well-researched well-discussed dissection, it's incredible how it passes as scientific (seeing the likes/dislikes bar) when it's highly ideological and justifies the current hierarchy while informing men they are "alfa" or "beta" with fancier terms. It would make for an interesting video for sure
I don't know about that... To me it seemed that he mainly talked about T and then later I the video conjunctured about how Instagram might be problematic in terms of raising T levels. So calm down.
This is the recipe for how to be successful on youtube lol. Btw. Watching a video to the end, liking or disliking (same value to algo), and commenting tells UA-cam to recommend this video to others.
soo true, sooooo goddamn true. I try to always remind myself of exactly this. whenever I'm watching too many vlogs on youtube especially, I tell my self "why not go out and do something instead of watching somebody else doing something?". it's okey when it's done for entertainment purposes. but when watching vids/checking IG becomes a distraction from your life, well, you gotta do something about it.
@vawies watching a sports team you are affiliated with succeed can raise testosterone. Its different from simply watching a person flaunt their success.
Really interesting, this has really applied to me as I went through a similar cycle. I was socially embarrassed and I felt very anxious and depressed for about six months I would avoid people/situations I used to be comfortable in. I also put 1.5 stone of fat on even though before I was very lean. However recently I have began: dieting, exercising as well as being more sociable this has greatly improved my confidence; I am definitely going to keep this in mind in the future.
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@@ImStrangeThing I believe Jordan Peterson talked about it during one of his lectures. The wording he used was "elevated female hormones" estrogen is primarily a female hormone so perhaps I'm reading too into it.
What I've Learned from this video - A Lot! Normally for these types of videos I click, I watch the comments and then I judge If It's worth to watch. Nothing special in the comments but something told me to keep waching. Turns out the video is a lot more than the title and really valuable! Respect to the creators. In Summary: *Winning = More Testosterone = More Confidence = More Prestige = Better Life* So, Win. The day, The week, The month, The year. Win in Life. But It doesn't happen unless you decide to Take Action and Progress.
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I thought men's status rises with age. Why then does testosterone drop as men age. Is that still just a given, but their levels should be compared to men of similar age?
A man’s status (and thus attractiveness) goes up with age yes, but status isn’t the only variable that effects testosterone. This video refers to very short term fluctuations of testosterone, not long term baseline levels (which matter more).
I remember hearing about a study which completely contradicts what your saying: Reachers would get football supporters to spit in a tube and they noted which team they were on. After the match they did the same. They both had increased testosterone, but the loosing team had much higher testosterone. Its speculated that this is because when a team wins they are more protective of their status, when your body thinks your status is threatened it increases testosterone.
I always find this sort of knowledge fairly depressing. My libido is absolutely broken from post finasteride syndrome, has been for over 6 years, so talking to women is always littered with doubt because I fear I could be a massive dissapointment to her. I still lift, challenge my self, get competitive but the lack of lust in my life has catapulted me into mediocrity.
does the whole testosterone correlation thing in women mean they also have "dominance hierarchies" though? considering we are not as competitive, is it more about acceptance and integrating than winning and dominating? i wish someone focused on social anxiety in women so i can figure out wtf is up honestly
well idk what your experiences are with women but yes, men have to win women over while women are won over. so in terms of that successes women are not as competitive, and they are more agreeable. they certainly still compete socially but on terms of desirability mostly which is kinda passive. so it is definitively different type of competitiveness and i dont think (i don't know?) if you can apply dominance hierarchy theory for women. also obviously testosterone is the dominant hormone in men and in women it's estrogen so. that must make a difference, i think.
@@ezodragon Oh, you were saying it specifically applying it to romance; I was thinking more about women (specially in formative years) being a lot more socially competitive with each other.
@@driveasandwich6734 well my social anxiety is not exactly related to romance but i am past highschool age and that social dynamic is not applicable anymore. if testosterone is related to the general mental wellbeing for men, i was wondering how female hormones affect women's mental health differently (and through which types of activities you can control that). i did mention romance, but mostly because that is what the dominance hierarchy is based around, isn't it?
Great video. Referring to the experiment where happiness was found in not the ability to attain a high amount of money but how much more we attain in comparison with another person. I was wondering, would the same principles apply to how many likes/followers a user gets on Instagram compare to another user. We do tend to compare ourselves naturally so I see why not and can be an addition to whether or not Instagram lowers your testosterone since likes/followers can be an indicator of social status on Instagram.
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Reminds me of a quote from Caesar "I'd rather be first in that little village (a village in Gaul) than second in Rome". So yeah hang around with "low status" people, and so long as your at the top you'll feel great ha.
WIL, I know you can't mention "the thing that's happening" without being demonetized, but I'm curious what your thoughts are on how massive widespread social isolation effects this. I posted another longer comment with my own personal experience.
imagine what a horse feels with all that testosterone running through his body, I ride a young horse the other day and the horse saw older horse running and my horse saw that and he start running fast and the horse trainer told me that when a horse see other horses running, their testosterone shot to the roof causes the horse to emulate other horse running
My dog does similar - acts like a pansy when it’s raining and won’t go out. Another dog walks by and he’s all “what rain?” Starts jumping around in the rain. Dogs’ll totally flex in front of other dogs, LOL.
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Jeff Cavaliere: "Guys, looking at Instagram is killing your gains."
Don't forget to squeeze your glutes for maximum concentration when learning how to raise your testosterone.
@@2312uri keep switching your thumbs while scrolling to avoid muscle imbalances
That was literally my first thought.
That guy is a fraud
@@cheftorte554 not his knowledge though, he shouldn't have done the fake weights, but he is very knowledgeable.
When you don't care about what other people are doing with their life, you start living your own.
Straightforward and true.
But to a certain you always care. It's hard wired into us.
But how??
@@r-type4945 I care about those I interact with in reality, and only those close to me. Not fake online personas people develop.
Not caring for comparison, but out of care for the person, and our relationship.
I do of course compare myself to them still, but not in a pathologic way.
Perhaps I have more wins than losses, so it's not a big deal to me? But the comparisons I make, cause me no stress.
@@r-type4945 No, nobody can prove that. We can train ourselves to not care about other people. We are the product of our environment and experience! That's why meditation is so useful tool!
Next video: How watching videos about things that lower your testosterone, lowers your testosterone
Passivity is a motivation/symptom of depression. Some internet content gives you the idea of doing something useful but it will only be useful when you put it at pratice. Without the pratice you become passive, depressed and with low T
Testosterone-ception
@@pedroarrosi6324 🔥🔥 no practice no gain
Sorry but that comma killed my testosterone.
Wait no is my lack of gonads.
Certainly does as lots of men just become simps on instagram lol
Instagram “influencers” have been influencing your testosterone ( negatively) and influencing their testosterone ( positively).
Testosterone thieves!
If it’s a video game we can call it a morale drain
I think you guys fail to forget that these influencers are humans too... There's always someone "better" than you, even if you're a rich influencer. The same guys are probably looking at other even richer and even more "alpha" men than themselves and getting the negative effects. Nobody wins in social media. Everyone just loses and feels jealous of one another.
Biochemistry bandits
Human hormone heist!
- watching memes about how miserable I am,
- seeing everybody relate,
- feeling great again
Modern problems require modern solutions
idk if creating a positive feedback loop where you feel great for relating to misery is the best idea. but i get it, it's just a coping mechanism, i'd suggest at least just trying to make sure it doesn't end up being how u live ur whole life; cuz my guess is that it's extremely easy to live ur whole life like that.
It’s great to cope like that but seek the positive memes too
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unless you see 7 billion people relating to it, you ain't seeing anything
Summary
Testosterone (T) makes you more:
• Confident
* In social groups
* When approaching strangers
* When approaching women
* With eye contact
• More muscle, less fat, stronger bones
• Happier, less depressed
• More motivated, successful
T is self reinforcing:
• More T leads to more T
• Lower T leads to lower T
Things which influence your T level:
Increase
• Being high in the hierarchy, prestige
• Talking to women
• Exercising
• Winning competition, game
• Seeing your team win
• Social win
Decrease
• Being low in the hierarchy
• Instagram: Looking at people with higher status/wealth/looks lowers your testosterone. You seel low in the hierarchy and subordinate
• Losing
• Social defeat
• Being bullied
Faxx
None of which that actually states the real reason why men are suffering from low T.
1. Tap water, shower and drinking water
2. Plastic containers
3. Polyester based clothing
4. See oils.
5. Lack of sun
6. Lack of exercise
7. Lack of proper sleep
8. Being around technology too much
9. Catering to woman's wants and desires
10. Alcohol
11. Junk food
12. Not eating our species specific diet (we are carnivores)
13. Living too comfortably
14. Not being stoic as in your lifestyle
15. Not facing your inner struggles and addressing them to reduce stress
List goes on and on. There are 15 things you can work on right now to help your hormone levels.
@@austinmeredith6647 Thank you for this , this was a video stating only the problems without answers if not for this comment. And I would like to add to this the dramatic presentation may not do justice to how stable or tolerant T really is , this cycle is not that fragile .
@@austinmeredith6647I’m going to translate it to portuguese and share. Thanks mate.
@@marceloandradereviriegodac4465
You're welcome mate. Spread the knowledge. It is your real wealth.
I quit social media a little over a year ago and I've never felt better, working out every day getting straight A's in college. It's definitely worth a try.
Wow sounds like you dropped a drug addiction!
TheShubLub it’s not much different, companies like Facebook and IG hire social engineers to find ways to make their platforms release as much dopamine as possible when you get on it
Can confirm
@@jonathanchilds930 i'm addicted to youtube
there are some informative channels
but always drifts toward entertainment, and waste my time
how can i stop this?
@c v wish i was that easy
but i'm trying
unsubscribing to all the channels that are distracting, mark videos as not interested in my feed
and will try to remember not to get distracted
hopefully it will help
- Taking to women
- Excercising in a group
- Watching your sports team win
- Leveling up your status
You forgot Squats.
And actually competing yourself
Watching my sports team win? I support man u, that's not possible..
@@rerigan It's the porn bro, possibly diet as well? or maybe vit D deficiency or a combination.
@@rerigan Especially the facial hair could just be your genetics, but you might want to go get a check-up if possible.
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Why should you even care that much about your testosterone? I really don't understand. If it is too low, go to the doctor, if it is too high, go to the doctor. But if you care about your masculinity that much then maybe you should go to the doctor too, just not your usual one.
@@TheManinBlack9054
Testosterone keeps a person calm, sure of themselves and relaxed.... A person cant have "too high" of testosterone.
Having too low of testosterone makes a person physically weak, muscles shrink. In addition they jump to emotional stress quicker without any reason.
Having high testosterone is a birthright for every male on Earth.
You're comment is off topic, probably the result of low T.
So, if you have low testosterone it's better to focus on your immediate environment, exercise and eat well
and give yourself some short term goals that you can accoplish fairly quickly which will increase your self worth and testosterone - repeat repeat etc.
@@stevemyers2092 solid advice there thanks
Instagram has girls to follow....
You guys are awesome
@@stevemyers2092 you are awesome too
Short answer: it depends if you are looking at successful people or just looking at memes on Instagram
Okay which one lowers it I don't wanna watch the video lol
@@nicoledoubleyou lmao
I look at asses and memes
@@nicoledoubleyou It depends on how those things make you feel.
@@nicoledoubleyou memes are okay.
I get it, the key to success is:
Make money,
Buy testosterone,
Make more money,
Buy more testosterone
.
.
.
And eventually become Arnold Schwarzenegger
Too much testosterone makes u get man boobs
@@Akileshg1 fool
@@Akileshg1 No, too much estrogen makes you get man boobs.
@@Akileshg1 actually, if you get your body addicted to external testosterone and than suddenly stop taking it, your natural levels will be very low, in that moment man boobs can appear.
If you use it the right way, it's completely safe
@@r_novemberr Yea, ofc. But many abuse it and get man boobs. Testosterone is very safe in safe doses
153 is a hell of a lot of Christmas cards to send
152* because you are also in the village. Unless you want to send one yourself because you have no friends and are low status :D
I liked this comment thinking that you were referring "153" to the first three digits of the length of this video.
Also, I'm a guy, not a girl.
Find myself saying that more and more due to confusion.
And 1+5+3=9 and you know what is 9....
zero is the optimal number
I watch and laugh at poor people online and my Testosterone levels are through the roof
MY BOYS MAD SMAAAHT
Based hobby
@@crimesguy I like to watch videos of people in Jail and I feel great afterwards
I watch fail vids
Ur profile pic tho
Hierarchies and lobsters.
Hmmm and hermits
"So, hurray for that." - 🐉
Peterson is a fool. He took psychic drugs and collapsed. Not smart.
@@19374hklmaq and where are your brilliant observations and conclusions on life which helped millions of people take action to start making their lives better?
@@jongyon7192p please provide clips where Jordan Peterson 1) endorses Trump 2) tells others to vote for/ support Trump.
This probably can be related to porn as well. Seeing people doing what YOU should be doing over and over again like a voyeur from life.
The voyeurism aspect of it really messes with your brain’s balance. Porn addiction is the reason for so many mental health problems. I implore everyone to do their research to understand it’s effects. From credible sources and do not succumb to confirmation bias (looking only for things that support your view).
Make a research for NoFap.
Porn addiction literally destroys a human
If you would quit, your testosterone would get much higher and the chances to get a woman is highly increasing, believe me!
@shannon dove that’s the thing, that’s WHY you can’t get a woman. Back in the day a man had to work hard to even see a naked woman (talking to a woman, taking her out on dates, proving yourself to be a man, showing the many products of your success, etc) where as these days men get it for free at the click of their fingers. See what I’m saying? If you’re fat you’d work out to attract women, if you’re broke you’d study and/or get a well paying job to attract a wife, etc. It’s way too easy nowadays since you don’t have to work on yourself to see a woman naked let alone a woman having sex (you still aren’t the one having sex so you lose every time). That’s one of the reasons why men have testosterone, it’s motivation to better yourself to attract a mate. Men are amazing as is but especially when they utilise their testosterone, it’s literally the backbone to every society and what has helped build the ancient and modern world
@shannon dove Work on yourself, on your hobbies, make friends, eventually you will have a relationship.
This channel is absolutely the pinnacle of what the internet at large has to offer. Someone finds or thinks of an interesting topic, they research it, and present an argument for said topic. Fantastic work, please keep it up!
'Does Instagram lower your testosterone?'
Me, a woman: 👀
Non binary
Girls have testosterone produced by their ovaries in much smaller quantities though
@@MrDramatizacija No, I am talking about physical sexes.
@@fatimamudasser6802 Yes, that was the joke. Low testosterone isn't a worry for women.
Low testosterone in women is often a reason with a flat lined libido.
The pill binds testosterone, and as such often kills sex drive over time
Scrolling through instagram all day is part of my mtf hormone therapy.
Dis gonna blow up.
I don't have a job, girlfriend or social status. When compared with others I'm at the bottom of the social hierarchy. But I am probably happier than people you may see on Instagram. Why? It's because my happiness and well-being does not depend on outside phenomena.
This guy gets it
u can't change your biology dawg
Then what other social circle do you have that gives you satisfaction? Humans are social beings we can't escape that.
@Dan M I think it's a Buddhist concept indeed. This is exactly what those Buddhist meditations have taught me: happiness coming from the inside out, and not the other way around.
Hierarchy and status are just concepts anyway, and both come with their own dependencies.
Dependency is what creates sorrow and Buddhists know this.
My happiness doesn't come from what people think of me. My joy comes from the Lord.
The Dominance Hierarchy
@Siim Land Does this mean keeping your testosterone high will help you push further and therefore a healthier life?
BTW your content is gold as well!
clean your room
He doesnt reply. So dont bother.
@@tle1015 who he ?
Isn’t it more of a prestige hierarchy for humans? Or is that the same as dominance?
Now it makes sense why so many men keep watching sports even if they are watching a game from decades ago.
I always wondered why would someone watch a sport the don't practice, and if they like watching a particular sport why won't they start to practice it, sometimes it drives me crazy trying to understand that
@@juanlastra3502 Same
Fellow Berserk fan
@@salj.5459 Hi struggler
@@juanlastra3502 Because seeing professional athlete doing things that are hard for common people is simply mesmerizing and fun to watch, like dunking in basketball for example. That's one of the reason.
unexpected title but interesting video !
A lot of my low testosterone and anxiety comes from my middle school days where I was like the last person to hit puberty, automatically putting me at the bottom of the social hierarchy for years, at the time I just accepted I was a little kid and all the girls though I was “cute” and that has affected me ever since.
Ooof, same here bro lol
Atleast you'll be like 6'5
I was bullied because my eye sockets are slightly asymmetric, which makes it look as if my eyes were cross-eyed at times, despite it being tested not to be the case.
Now whenever I get complimented, I can never take it seriously, in fact, I always feel like I'm being made fun of. Additionally, I'm a very anxious person, social interaction is hard and I can only interact with women from a professional or friendly POV, which deepens my feelings of inadequacy and subordination. That said, I'm physically fit, I'm considered smart by everyone around me and I guess that by most's standards, I'm successful.
Going to try to be more dominant from today onwards. Gotta fake it till you make it, some would say.
@@fmazerolol same
more like instant gram of dopamine-cocaine-adrenaline-endorphins...
Gimme that
@@stza16 Just download the app fam
A thought i had while watching this was that we need to stop demonizing masculine traits (Especially in our youth). Sure Testosterone can make men territorial, aggressive, or violent but it also brings out leadership, drive, and charisma.
We should use it in a proper way.
Tell that to the extremist feminists who say "the lower the testosterone the happier the man" without enough testosterone the whole system would fail
Testosterone doesn't make you violent, it makes you confident, which allows anger to express as violence. Just teach kids to always keep a cool head.
@@CvnDqnrUit is scientifically proven to cause aggression, no need to sugar coat it. There is benefit and negative to it
@@mehmesayed4234lowering it will not make the world system fail, overloaded testosterone does cause harm. It needs to be balanced
I think it all goes down to how we let external things like social media affect our lives. As Marcus Aurelius said in Meditations: "You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."
As a man, I've never gone to instagram to look at more men
So many thicc beautiful girls on IG, why would i follow some dude?
@@richarda.w.4562 That has worse effect
@@mvrdara I agree. I have been thinking of doing dopamine detox but it's really hard.
@@gabbar51ngh most men have burned out dopamine receptor, sadly mostly young men, I am struggling for a lot of time myself but at least I realize the damage, try exercise(lifting). it's even harder for a man of solitude like myself. But I try to cope with finding new sounds.
If testosterone is so directly linked to social dominance, why does it reduce due to marriage and fatherhood? Does having a family make you instantly less dominant? The relation between testosterone and dominance should be more complicated to account for this.
That’s not it at all. You have less testosterone because you’ve settled down and can enjoy meaningful relationships you’ve tried so hard to acquire (because of the testosterone). Take a look at the hormones that increase after getting married and having a baby.
The significance of testosterone in your life changes as you grow older. A 40 year old man isn't seeking to be a great body builder or athlete.
Testosterone also falls with age (peak for man is around 18-26 years old, then it slowly falls). I think it is most possibly a correlation not causation that married man with children would have lower testosterone.
Testosterone makes you seek a mate. When you find one, it drops to a level where the seeking behavior is more in the background and other hormones like vasopressin rise to ensure that you keep bonding with that mate to keep raising high-quality offspring, plus those hormones raise your life expectancy. Some of those hormones actually make you more dominant, but in a much more considerate and family-oriented way than the ego-dominance of testosterone. An unhappy or incompatible bond can reduce those hormones, causing depression and health problems due to the low level of all hormones.
That is for the majority of people, but not for some. For some their testosterone level never drops and they usually don't produce offspring in the modern world due to making many shallow bonds due to the seeking behavior not weakening or produce low quality offspring (single mothers/serial cheating problems leading to parental fighting and secrecy leading to disconnection between family members) but probably higher quantity of offspring. Those are also the people the majority of non-bonded (and unhappily bonded) people compare themselves to because they seem to have a much better chance at finding more high-quality mates.
Basically, your body already has a reproductive strategy, be it quality or whatever.
It IS more complicated. The research suggests that men with lower T are more likely to be and stay married to begin with. This is all about investment tradeoffs and life history theory. Basically you either invest in reproduction or longevity. You either have a fast life strategy: having lots of sex, spreading your seed, earlier death, displays of aggression, competing for dominance and status, and high T. OR you have a slow life strategy: low T, less dominance, longer lifespan, more monogamous and a focus on investing resources into one relationship. This is why the act of committing in a relationship lowers T, because high T is conducive to fast life strategies and polygamous reproduction. Men who ARE married and have higher T don't stay monogamously married for long..
Something I feel is important to add to the discussion is that acute changes in testosterone are normal, and micromanaging these is not only unlikely to lead to positive outcomes, but also complicate life needlessly.
Heavy squatting and other compound lifts, for example, has been shown to produce a great spike in testosterone. This has led to a lot of ineffective advice being given; always include heavy compounds to produce a test spike and maximize anabolism. There is no evidence that this actually works, and you wouldn't expect it to if you understand that what matters for anabolism is the area under the curve over time.
You kind of contradict yourself. You first say heavy squatting and compound lifts have been shown to spike testosterone levels. And then say this is inaffective advice??
@@hanzalamehmood2991 Do you even know what a spike is?
@@CvnDqnrU yes do you
@@hanzalamehmood2991 You forget that a spike goes back down after going up. OP is saying a more sustainable solution is necessary.
This
One of the most interesting videos I've seen in a while. The workings of hormones is such an abstract concept to me, and I love how you present the connection between social hierarchy and testosterone. Thanks for the video!
I don't think you get this enough, so I just want to thank you for making these videos. I learn a lot and actually use them in my own life to make it better.
"5 to 15 minutes in conversation with an unfamiliar woman can raise testosterone"
Aight I'ma head out
get a hooker talk to her for 5 min then have sex and feel like a king. then back to work with no interfearence from a significant other.
@@stevemyers2092 it won't work while you are making her interested by giving money
@@pai64 Trick your mind and then it will. "You're the only one who can provide this money to her, you're her provider and dominator and she needs this from you, not you from her!" boom - brain bypassed - as long as you can actually convince yourself of things and cast the doubt outside of your mind instead of trying to shrink it and hide it at the back of your mind where you don't look, can cause the big spike. I have a theory that 'confidence' is really just the casting away of doubt, so whenever an opportunity to confront doubt arises and you win and then feel that confidence boost that's actually your testosterone spiking.
i am so so happy, that i accidentely found this video because it just sums up and puts into words my thoughts for the last year! 2020 wasn´t easy and maybe or pretty sure social media was just another negative source to our mental health. we probably spend way much time than usual scrolling through instagram over and over due to beeing stuck at home.
how are you doing nowadays :) ?
@@DS-uo1zy i try hard everday to limit my screentime and it works :)
Also sports bring a lot of relief and balance in my life. So i would say definitely better than 2 years ago :)
How about you?
I found glaring problems with this one... It is a correlation, not a causation for the higher status males to have higher testosterone levels. I see no evidence presented here to PROVE anything was directly causing anything else. And the argument could easily be made that BECAUSE they had higher levels of test, is why they achieved the higher status, and not the other way around. Get it
~ It surprised me that this wasn't even mentioned.
Additionally, using the same logic, it's perhaps the men with low testosterone are the ones that prefer to use Instagram, instead of the argument made here that it actually causes it. The fact is, we don't yet know either way.
I agree with you
You make an excellent point, except we do have evidence that it is causation. Take a look at the body of literature on "winner-loser effects". In animal models we can manipulate the outcomes of winning/losing fights by rigging the outcome of fights. For example we can pair a randomly selected male with a really crappy male that we know will likely lose in order to experimentally generate winners. With these methods, we still see winners experience a "winner effect" that translates into boosts in testosterone, increase in social status, higher odds of winning another fight, and higher success in obtaining mates.
12:54 he didn't specifically say that it's not evident but he does imply that it varies from person to person
@aititnas anybody who knows basic biology and psychology would know that you can’t claim anything as ‘evident’ or ‘intuitive’ without actual evidence. The whole ‘correlation =/= causation’ thing is practically a core fundamental of science. Just because something intuitively makes sense doesn’t mean you can draw conclusions
There are plenty of examples of people with hypogonadism or clinically low test levels that came up in bloodworks that got TRT and the boost in testosterone directly translated to more confidence and success in general. CEOs of companies who are woman also have higher than average testosterone levels, there's plenty to look at that shows this effect to be real, even through observations and testing of animals in the wild and seeing testosterone levels before and after fights etc. When he have a debate/confrontation with someone even just an ideological fight of wits if you feel you came out on top you will get a testosterone spike.
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I'm getting testosterone injections weekly and can confirm if you really have low testosterone and manage to increase testosterone by medication or changes to lifestyle/diet will greatly help reducing social anxiety.
Getting off social media is one of the best decisions I've ever made.
Same. People try to convince me of what Im missing
UA-cam is one of the biggest social media sites in the internet.
@@driveasandwich6734 it's a massive time drain, yes, but it's not a social networking platform like insta, fb, Twitter, etc
2:56 Rejoice, my fellow Youtubians
I am a woman and have higher testosterone than even some men haha. Lower voice, smaller chest, love to win and compete, and stronger faster muscles. This makes so much sense now. That's why I attract men who are more on the feminine side, or have lower testosterone.
That part where the monkey received cucumber instead of a grape killed me
i think it depends on who you follow ,i only follow people that inspire me (and some meme pages:D ) .. Mcgregor said something like : Some people will look at the things you do and get inspired others will shell up and critique and be negative towards about it, but one thing is for sure people who take inspiration will also one day experience that life ,this is human nature some people go one way some people go the other way..
I have Zero interest in what “higher status” people on instagram are doing. (Delete all social media)
You sound butthurt, tho. Not attacking, just observation..
@@muuuictor True. If he REALLY had zero interest he would not bother writing this comment i think.
@@JW0121 don't think so. It's not offered as an unprompted, gratuitous comment. It's in direct respons to WIL comment. The folks whose lives revolve around IG have no idea how many people aren't interested. Ditto twatter
Social media is like junk food
@@YagrumBagarn Laced with rat poison
Do click baity titles lower your testosterone?
Does reading studies about raising your testosterone lower your testosterone?
Does looking at testosterone increase your testosterone?
Does Testosterone stoss your terone?
Testosterone testerone testosterone? Yes testosterone.
8-)
Balls.
Balls
My test raised by reading this xD
CALL A BONDULANCE!
Dunbars number really isn’t a reliable metric for people we assert as our dominance hierarchy. Firstly it was achieved with frankly dishonest logarithmic scales mapping the number of identifications apes have in their brain and adjusting for human brain size(which we have yet to assert is logically consistent). Bees, birds and many other animals travel in far larger groups with far smaller brains.
Secondly, as you outlined, the mean groupings were 150, meaning a considerable amount of people don’t fall anywhere close to this metric. Weddings are attended only by people you like, so they’re not even a similar to a dominance hierarchy of people as people you don’t like aren’t included.
Lastly, it’s easy to take a number like 150 and retroactively assert a bunch of arbitrary statistics that retroactively support this view, but consider the clear counter example the fact most people follow far more than 200 people on Instagram. Simply read Dunbar’s papers. His statistics are based on weak assumptions about the brain. His correlations are contrived. Neurology is new field. Many findings are headline grabbing yes, but they are not being replicated as easily.
@Clorox Tree Yes I do, I also know many older people I don’t follow.
I wonder where twitch would rank on the mental health social media scale.
Number 1 ZULUL
@@luthfi6537 by that logic pokimane simps are the happiest Kappa
@@sorbet7216 Kekw
I got addicted to Twitch for a few weeks during the pandemic. And then it struck me that it is nonsense. I actually feel really sorry for people who spectate there everyday.
@@benjamin2667 Get off that. You're missing out on life. Get a different passion, hobby, craft, or study something. You literally do not get anything out of watching streams other than shallow entertainment.
my testosteron is very high yet I have quite severe social anxiety so this link does not apply to me. Then again I am on the autism spectrum so for me social anxiety is more the result of "being afraid to overstimulate" than feeling "less dominant". Interesting topic!
If you don't have a plan, you become part of somebody else's plan.
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failure to plan = planing to fail
deep
Watching fail compilations on UA-cam is now part of my pre-workout.
It seems What I've Learned planned this video backwards: he let his low-testosterone hypothesis inform his research, setting the stage for yet another lesson in confirmation bias, much like many of his other videos about heart disease, cholesterol and diet. No other viewpoints are considered, only his, making for an unconvincing video.
This video makes massive leaps of faith and is a gross oversimplification of a variety of topics whose complexity has not been given any respect. The author is trying to directly link mental health, depression, mood, status, hierarchies, anxiety, visual feedback, human interaction to testosterone levels, when the evidence for a causal relationship or even a correlation is contradictory, scarce and unreliable, even if it may weakly point in a certain direction. For example, aromatase inhibitors, as well as SERMs and SARMs significantly raise testosterone, but not a single positive health outcome has been proven in men in terms of mental health and muscle mass.
It would also help to include all citations in the video description.
Came here searching for a voice of reason and was amazed at how few there were. This video deserves its own 1 hour long well-researched well-discussed dissection, it's incredible how it passes as scientific (seeing the likes/dislikes bar) when it's highly ideological and justifies the current hierarchy while informing men they are "alfa" or "beta" with fancier terms. It would make for an interesting video for sure
I don't know about that... To me it seemed that he mainly talked about T and then later I the video conjunctured about how Instagram might be problematic in terms of raising T levels. So calm down.
This is the recipe for how to be successful on youtube lol.
Btw. Watching a video to the end, liking or disliking (same value to algo), and commenting tells UA-cam to recommend this video to others.
To be fair, if you spend ANY time looking at pictures of more successful people, you seriously need a life.
soo true, sooooo goddamn true. I try to always remind myself of exactly this. whenever I'm watching too many vlogs on youtube especially, I tell my self "why not go out and do something instead of watching somebody else doing something?". it's okey when it's done for entertainment purposes. but when watching vids/checking IG becomes a distraction from your life, well, you gotta do something about it.
most people who tell you to get a life have none!
Role models?
@vawies watching a sports team you are affiliated with succeed can raise testosterone. Its different from simply watching a person flaunt their success.
I really like your format, how you break your video into "chapters" and have a table of contents in the description.
It’s called time stamps and it’s actually really common
Ur channel is my favorite.
This is knowledge that gives u an extra edge.
short answer: yes
long answer: yeeeeessssss
You just hit the nail on the head. I feel this daily in work and life in general
Really interesting, this has really applied to me as I went through a similar cycle. I was socially embarrassed and I felt very anxious and depressed for about six months I would avoid people/situations I used to be comfortable in. I also put 1.5 stone of fat on even though before I was very lean. However recently I have began: dieting, exercising as well as being more sociable this has greatly improved my confidence; I am definitely going to keep this in mind in the future.
Very cool
Now we need a video like this on estrogen
Feminism just won't let this
What's the effect of Discord then? Promotes minor attractions?
I'm out of the loop what happens in Discord?
@@zxxNikoxxz It's a ton of invite-only servers with their own mods, kinda like forums, but the server mods cannot control any private messages sent.
As such it's got some really chill servers and chill people, and some really creepy people.
Not gonna lie, discord is like the most degenerative communities.
Like always, pure gold content of the bleeding edge of psychology!
You talk about testosterone like J Peterson talks about serotonin.
Maybe it's because they're both incredibly vital to your mental & physical health, as the endocrine system is fragile and is bombarded daily.
.... roughly speaking
@@JoeKerr1492 I mean there is always this alchemist thing of trying to find THAT thing.
It's my understanding that testosterone is a regulator of the release of dopamine and serotonin
@@mrdanielvelez isn't he in coma or something?
Your videos are such high quality it is a pleasure to watch. Even the ad at the end is high quality, your sponsors must love you.
Does talking to men raise women's testosterone? :o
It raises estrogen.
@@TheDevilsPrank where did u see that?
@@ImStrangeThing I believe Jordan Peterson talked about it during one of his lectures. The wording he used was "elevated female hormones" estrogen is primarily a female hormone so perhaps I'm reading too into it.
@@kitsunemeansfox lmao what
@@kitsunemeansfox lmao what?
5:47 love the sound 🤣
What I've Learned from this video - A Lot!
Normally for these types of videos I click, I watch the comments and then I judge If It's worth to watch. Nothing special in the comments but something told me to keep waching.
Turns out the video is a lot more than the title and really valuable! Respect to the creators.
In Summary: *Winning = More Testosterone = More Confidence = More Prestige = Better Life*
So, Win. The day, The week, The month, The year. Win in Life. But It doesn't happen unless you decide to Take Action and Progress.
Man, your videos saved my life! I live completly another life now. Full of energy, happiness and without anxiety! Thank you SO much! I feel like a different person now. I couldn't believe it is possible.
that's the funniest title i've read in a while
5:47 still makes me happy after all these years
When you win at chess your testosterone levels rise
Me sucks at chess
*Addicted to chess*
*Oh no*
One night in Bangkok makes the hard man humble.
Not much between despair and ecstasy.
One night in Bangkok and the tough guys tumble.
Can't be to careful with your company.
I can feel the devil walking next to meeeeeee..
Doing better than the last time is still victory
I thought men's status rises with age. Why then does testosterone drop as men age. Is that still just a given, but their levels should be compared to men of similar age?
A man’s status (and thus attractiveness) goes up with age yes, but status isn’t the only variable that effects testosterone. This video refers to very short term fluctuations of testosterone, not long term baseline levels (which matter more).
@@tc59932 makes sense
@@DanRichter I guess if you're constantly feeling lesser by looking at Instagram, the short term drop in testosterone can turn into a long term issue.
Short answer:
If you only follow rich people doing exciting things: yes;
if you follow your aquaintances and normal people you know: no
It's weird to follow people I know ,why do that ,I don't get it
love how a lot of studies are referenced!
I remember hearing about a study which completely contradicts what your saying: Reachers would get football supporters to spit in a tube and they noted which team they were on. After the match they did the same. They both had increased testosterone, but the loosing team had much higher testosterone. Its speculated that this is because when a team wins they are more protective of their status, when your body thinks your status is threatened it increases testosterone.
source?
My mind is officially blown!
I always find this sort of knowledge fairly depressing. My libido is absolutely broken from post finasteride syndrome, has been for over 6 years, so talking to women is always littered with doubt because I fear I could be a massive dissapointment to her. I still lift, challenge my self, get competitive but the lack of lust in my life has catapulted me into mediocrity.
Honestly, I can relate these points you’re making to so many more parts in my life than just instagram. Thank you
does the whole testosterone correlation thing in women mean they also have "dominance hierarchies" though? considering we are not as competitive, is it more about acceptance and integrating than winning and dominating? i wish someone focused on social anxiety in women so i can figure out wtf is up honestly
Really? Women are *less* socially competitive than men?
Drive A Sandwich yeah was thinking the same. There’s no way that’s true and generally applicable
well idk what your experiences are with women but yes, men have to win women over while women are won over. so in terms of that successes women are not as competitive, and they are more agreeable. they certainly still compete socially but on terms of desirability mostly which is kinda passive. so it is definitively different type of competitiveness and i dont think (i don't know?) if you can apply dominance hierarchy theory for women. also obviously testosterone is the dominant hormone in men and in women it's estrogen so. that must make a difference, i think.
@@ezodragon Oh, you were saying it specifically applying it to romance; I was thinking more about women (specially in formative years) being a lot more socially competitive with each other.
@@driveasandwich6734 well my social anxiety is not exactly related to romance but i am past highschool age and that social dynamic is not applicable anymore. if testosterone is related to the general mental wellbeing for men, i was wondering how female hormones affect women's mental health differently (and through which types of activities you can control that). i did mention romance, but mostly because that is what the dominance hierarchy is based around, isn't it?
Jealousy and comparing are for losers
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Great video. Referring to the experiment where happiness was found in not the ability to attain a high amount of money but how much more we attain in comparison with another person. I was wondering, would the same principles apply to how many likes/followers a user gets on Instagram compare to another user. We do tend to compare ourselves naturally so I see why not and can be an addition to whether or not Instagram lowers your testosterone since likes/followers can be an indicator of social status on Instagram.
I am currently 52 years old and 500 pounds. I am in fear for my life. I’m a very strong believer in intermittent fasting although I haven’t applied it to my life.. i’m trying to make changes right now because of my fear but I’m super willing to be a part of any research study if one is available. Thank you in advance and I really appreciate your video.
You got this, Ron. I don’t even know you but I believe in you!
Reminds me of a quote from Caesar "I'd rather be first in that little village (a village in Gaul) than second in Rome". So yeah hang around with "low status" people, and so long as your at the top you'll feel great ha.
T-post to assert dominance
Middle of the street, shirtless, and then head straight into your long run throughout town.
I'm hyped for the Dan Bilzerian trial and jail pics
This video has criminally low view count, love your vids!
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This video raises my testosterone
I'm on insta for the memes, but it does inspire me to make memes to get Haha's from other accounts.
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13:45 you forgot to censor that pic
Nice profile pic brother
Thanks for publishing quality video. Really appreciate what you're doing.
Do social freedom excersises like they do in pranks. You'll feel amazing.
2:58 well mister, your channel is no.1 most positive in my heart
WIL, I know you can't mention "the thing that's happening" without being demonetized, but I'm curious what your thoughts are on how massive widespread social isolation effects this. I posted another longer comment with my own personal experience.
Informative
imagine what a horse feels with all that testosterone running through his body, I ride a young horse the other day and the horse saw older horse running and my horse saw that and he start running fast and the horse trainer told me that when a horse see other horses running, their testosterone shot to the roof causes the horse to emulate other horse running
Interesting
I will try and feel like a horse on testosterone now!!
What happens when a young male horse see a female horse?
@@mabd7340 the pp go up
My dog does similar - acts like a pansy when it’s raining and won’t go out. Another dog walks by and he’s all “what rain?” Starts jumping around in the rain. Dogs’ll totally flex in front of other dogs, LOL.
I take your channel very seriously mate. I follow your advises seriosuly and I can see improvements in many aspects of my life. I make notes whenever I watch your videos.
I am fortunate to have come across your videos and since then, a lot has changed :)
4:35 George singing "Master of the House" is priceless
For those wondering about the riddle at the end, the short answer is no, the person who predicted all 8 card colors is not a psychic.
A more thorough explanation is as follows: Your probability of guessing the random color of a card drawn from the top of the deck is 1/2 or 0.5 (it can either be black or red). For the sake of simplicity, let's assume that for all 8 cards, your odds of guessing the color correctly are always 0.5 (it slightly changes depending on how many red or black cards you've already seen). Since each guess is an independent event, you can calculate your probability of guessing all 8 card colors correctly as 0.5^8, or 0.5 multiplied by itself 8 times. Doing so gives you 0.00390625, or 0.039%. We can round this off to about 0.04%. You know what else equals 0.04%? 1 in 250.
In a group of 250 people, it thus stands that there's probably one person that makes all 8 guesses correctly, as astounding as that may initially seem. Now, if that same person can predict another 8 cards correctly (or maybe even just 3 or 4), then yeah, they might actually be psychic.
You lower my testosterone with every new video man!
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Thank you for your videos! I’ve been watching and eagerly waiting some fresh learnings for a few years now
I was wondering if you could make a video on the physical effects of heartbreak, it feels like it activates very similar stimuli to physical pain! Would love to hear your take on it 🙏🙇♂️