All right, so basically today I'm going to be talking about man as a biological male.
And so I'm going to be going over a lot of, really, biology.
I'm going to be talking about a lot of things that maybe some of these terms you guys have heard.
I'm going to try to do the best I can to expand your guys' vocabulary,
but also show how much it really does pertain to our lives.
I think there's some things in every day and age that men live in,
in every day and age that men who are following the Lord in.
So it becomes different things that are very, very pertinent to those day and ages,
men rising to the occasion.
And I'm going to talk about some things that has become my perspective
that I actually think some Christian men should rise to the occasion in.
They're a little bit being neglected.
I think there's very powerful forces at work that are very confusing to us,
and we don't exactly know what's going on.
And I want to open up the hood and describe some things that I think some of you guys,
hopefully all of you guys, are very intrigued by and also have some conviction behind
and realizing, oh, this is actually what is going on.
We live in a very confusing day and age.
I think one of the things that's confusing about the information age
is that it didn't really increase our ability to grasp truth.
It really just gave us more opportunity to validate our own perspectives.
And so I think one of the things that's been a hallmark of the information age
is that we have more opportunity to create life, to create God,
to create our beliefs in our own image.
And I want to try to put some meat on the bone of some things
that you need to believe because it's reality.
Okay?
So my goal with this is, number one,
showing how what the Lord speaks about a man
is entirely equal to what a man is in reality.
Okay?
There is not competition between what the Lord is trying to reveal and call men to
versus what you actually are.
I think there's a lie and a deception that what the Lord says
has no relevance to what is really the case.
That is a lie and I hope to dispel a lot of that lie today.
But then number two, I want to answer,
and this is perhaps even a more difficult question to answer,
why does our culture question what has always been known that men are?
And I actually think that there's a really good answer to that question.
And I think when we answer that question well,
it can really help us in how we respond to these things in our day and age.
Because I think we do need a response.
I think we need a response as those who would like to be men,
because that's what the Lord has called us to,
but also respond as Christian men who are submitting to what the Lord has revealed.
Very important thing.
So what I'm going to start with,
guys, this is going to be an incredible biology lesson.
I'm really going to try to make this captivating to you guys.
This is something that is very captivating to me.
I love this stuff.
But I also want to try to teach it in a way that is actually captivating to you guys,
because I think it's very captivating to a lot of men.
Obviously, a lot, but some of these things,
for those of you who know me, you've already heard me talk about this stuff.
But for those of you who don't know me,
I think these things are really significant,
and I hope that you will, by the end of this teaching,
think they're significant as well.
So what I'm going to start with is the male development over the lifespan.
I'm going to try to cover this quickly.
And then after that, I'm going to circle back around,
and I'm actually going to talk about some historical developments
that have caused us to really question masculinity in this day and age.
And then I want to try to end on a note of some practical implications
and how I think Christian men should navigate the unique challenges of this day and age
when masculinity is being questioned.
I think one of the big things is I would like for men to live differently,
not just argue differently.
I think one of the things that's a huge weakness
is when men just hear different perspectives,
and they parrot them rather than actually being different.
You know, he who is responsible in little will be responsible with much.
It's a very powerful thing when men get real conviction in their own lives,
and then when they testify to these things,
people see the reality of what's being lived out in their life.
That's called embodiment.
That is the most powerful form of influence.
The most powerful form of influence is when you embody things
and then testify to what you're embodying.
The weakest form of influence is when you just have opinion.
Okay?
That's what hypocrites have.
And I have been a hypocrite.
I am a hypocrite in many ways.
May we not be convicted about things where we're just hypocrites
that spout different things,
but may we be ones who have conviction and live different lives
as a result of what we know and what we've learned.
Okay?
So, male biology development through the lifespan.
I'm just going to try to run through this.
Okay.
Number one, men, XY versus XX.
About two to three months in utero in your mother's womb,
that X-crobosome gets triggered,
and it causes a whole cascade of events.
First one, testosterone increases.
Testosterone does a handful of things inside the womb.
Guys, I told you this is going to be biology.
It's going to be biology.
Okay.
As a result of testosterone increasing inside the womb,
it also causes his testicles to start to develop,
but it also causes a whole bunch of neurochemical changes.
One of the things that happens distinctly for little boys in their mother's womb
is there's this thing called the corpus callosum.
That is the bridge between your right and left hemispheres of your brain.
The corpus callosum is what creates communication
between your right and left hemispheres.
In a male, it is smaller than a female.
Maybe you guys, I didn't know this.
Some of you guys already know this.
Some of you guys don't know this.
That creates a lot of distinction.
This is one of the reasons why women have a higher propensity
to perform while multitasking.
That's one of the reasons why men tend to be niche
and to be single-track mind.
A lot of people say this kind of stuff is stereotype.
That is actually not stereotype.
The Lord designed men to have an ability to focus on one task and perform it well.
Men outperform women when tending to one task,
whereas women outperform men when tending to multiple tasks.
The other thing is testosterone increases.
Not only testosterone is increased,
but also another peptide hormone,
which is called basopressin.
Probably Jacob's the only one here who knows what basopressin is.
It's also called antidiuretic hormone.
Basopressin is what animals, male animals have,
male mammals have,
that causes them to go around and pee on different trees.
All right, somebody tell me.
What are they doing when they're peeing on different trees?
They're marking their territory.
Okay, we have that too.
It's elevated men.
It's about three to four times higher in men than women.
Okay?
Men distinctly have an ability to assign territory,
what is theirs, what they own,
and subsequently, what they protect.
Basopressin is the male counterpart to another hormone
you guys probably have heard of,
which is called oxytocin.
All right, somebody tell me what oxytocin is.
Come on, somebody.
The happiness?
Okay, close.
Yeah, it does produce happiness.
Let's say that.
So oxytocin fundamentally is our comfort and bonding hormone.
Okay?
Women have higher degrees,
about 50% higher degrees of oxytocin than men.
And it's one of the things that gives women a propensity
to be able to empathize more efficiently than men.
Okay?
They are more attuned to people's emotion
and extending comfort.
Oxytocin has a twin brother hormone
that is called vasopressin.
Vasopressin is what causes men
to have a strong sense of brotherhood.
When men go to war
and they fight with their brothers in arms,
they come back home
and they have a connection with those guys
they went to war with.
A lot of you guys probably heard veterans say this.
My brothers that I went to war with
were closer to me than even my own family.
They'll say things like this.
That is elevated vasopressin.
Men are designed
by way of bonding.
How we are predisposed to bond with things
is to have a brotherhood
that comes from assigning territory,
which is ownership.
They assign ownership
and protection.
Okay?
The Lord designed men
in their relationships
to navigate them
with ownership
and protection.
Okay?
When men are healthy,
they are more predisposed
towards feeling like
that is my wife.
That is my children.
Those are my brothers.
Okay?
And what do they do?
They protect them.
Okay?
Women have more of a disposition
towards extending comfort
and connection
to those that they connect with.
Okay?
Men have more of a disposition
towards this ownership
and protectiveness.
Okay?
Which, again,
we're going to come back to this,
but one of the hallmarks
of masculinity
is being an owner
of your life.
The Lord meant for you
to not be an employer
of your life,
not be a spectator
of your life,
but to own your life.
Okay?
So then,
as we progress,
little boys,
little girls,
after they come out
of the womb,
as a result
of some of these hormones,
one of the things
that happens is
little boys
have a smaller
corpus callosum.
They tend more
to one task,
whereas little girls
are a little bit
more emotional.
They have more activity
across their entire brain.
There's more interconnectivity.
And one of the things
is they have elevated
oxytocin levels.
That's why you see
little bitty girls
immediately having
a gravitational pull
towards dolls,
towards nurturing things.
My little bitty
toddler girls
are nurturing
to the little brother
that just came out
of the womb.
That's in their nature.
The Lord designed them
at a very young age
to be more nurturing.
And they designed
little boys
at a very young age
to turn everything
into a gun
or everything
into a sword.
Little boys
who are appropriately
developing
develop a sense
of protecting
and fighting
for what they care for
at a very,
very young age.
So then,
across the lifespan,
if you take
a little boy's body
versus a little girl's body
and you can't see
their face
and they've got
their underwear on,
just looking at
their body,
it's actually very hard
to tell which is a boy
and which is a girl
because they have not
gone through puberty yet.
So one of the things
that happens in puberty
is we have a skyrocketing,
what we'll call
sex steroid hormones.
You guys probably know
some of these.
There's a couple
that I think you probably
don't know
that I'm going to need
to introduce you to
because they're going
to get more
and more important.
Number one
is estrogen.
You guys probably
already know
know what estrogen is.
Estrogen skyrockets
post-puberty.
Women tend to have
between five and ten
times as much
estrogen as men.
Testosterone skyrockets
post-puberty
in boys
who become men
and it's about
ten times as high
as women.
Okay?
The other two hormones
that I'm going
to introduce you to,
some of you guys
are married,
some of you guys
know these things.
Women have two
primary sex steroid
hormones.
Estrogen.
You guys have
heard that before.
Here's one you might
not have heard of.
Progesterone.
Some of you guys
who are trying
to get pregnant
have heard of this one.
Progesterone is the
other balancing hormone
that women have
but then men also
actually have two
sex steroid hormones.
They're every bit
as important.
Testosterone.
You guys have probably
heard of testosterone
but there's another
hormone that testosterone
turns into which is
called dihydrotestosterone.
So I go what you guys
remember.
Progesterone,
woman,
dihydrotestosterone,
man.
As we progress
through puberty
one of the things
that happens
is men have
what's called
a diurnal pattern.
Every 24 hours
your sex steroid hormones,
your testosterone,
and your dihydrotestosterone
repopulate when you sleep.
It also repopulates
for women
but women have
a very, very different
cycle than men do.
Every single 24 hours
a full rotation
of the earth
men are completely
replenished
with their sex steroid
hormones.
Women don't replenish
in the same way
that men do
every 24 hours
according to their
hormonal cascade.
Women's hormonal
cascade
is every
full moon
rotation of the earth
every 28 days.
Women's
hormonal
pattern
is not dictated
by the day.
It's dictated
by the moon
rotating around
the earth
every 28 days.
So there's an extent
to which
men's hormonal
pattern
is dictated
by the earth's
rotation
whereas women's
is dictated
by the moon.
It's actually
a beautiful metaphor
of men and women.
Right?
One of the things
that happens
that's very distinct
for women
in comparison to men
is the first
half of the cycle,
this is all
going to tie back.
The first half
of their cycle
is estrogen based.
Essentially,
I'm making this
more simple
than it is.
Jacob can critique
me at the end.
But essentially,
the first half
of their cycle
is estrogen based.
Estrogen causes
women to
increase their
oxytocin levels.
It causes them
to be more
emotionally attuned.
It causes them
to be more expressive
and also to seek
attention and validation
for men.
Okay?
The second half
of their cycle,
which is after
they were fertile,
so they're not
fertile anymore.
They were fertile,
now they're not fertile
post-fertility.
What happens
is they become
dominant by
their other hormone
called progesterone.
Progesterone is
what causes women
to kind of chill out.
They're a little bit
more emotionally stable.
Some of you guys
are going to say this
and then you're going
to start watching
your wives
and you're going to
be like,
oh shit,
he was right.
The second half
of their cycle
is progesterone
dominant.
They're less
interested in sex.
Okay?
They're a little bit
less itinerant.
They're more content
being home
and they're more chill
in their evenings.
This is called progesterone.
Progesterone
is what is activating
a woman's body
when her body
thinks she might
be pregnant
and is being
more conservative
to protect
the potential baby
and just set it up
for success
by way of not
overdoing herself.
Okay?
Men,
on the other hand,
have the skyrocket
of testosterone
when they're in puberty.
What testosterone does
is it crushes
cortisol.
Cortisol
is our
fear
hormone.
It's our
stress hormone.
So it causes them
to be less scared
of life
and also
increases
their dopamine.
Dopamine
is our
neurotransmitter
that causes us
to have
more,
to focus more
on goals
and have more
ambition.
It's essentially
our ambition
neurotransmitter.
So when you
increase testosterone,
you increase
ambition
and you
decrease fear,
essentially.
Okay?
This is kind of
a little bit
oversimplification.
I'm trying to make
this really
palatable.
Okay.
Now,
testosterone,
again,
we're still in puberty
here.
Testosterone,
fundamentally,
what it does
on our body
is it causes us
to develop
more muscle
and more strength
subsequently.
Duh.
But also,
what it does
is it actually
causes our bones
to be more dense.
Our bones
can literally
carry more.
As a result
of elevated
testosterone levels,
the average
adult male
is about 40%
stronger
than the average
adult female.
It literally
makes men stronger.
It also increases
their dopamine.
It also increases
their thyroid hormone.
Essentially,
testosterone's
activity
in a male's body
causes him
to be able
to be more ambitious,
to work harder,
to lift more,
and to work longer.
And,
because of testosterone
and vasopressin's
effect on the brain,
it causes us
to be more single-minded,
causes us to tend
to things
more than relationships,
whereas women,
their effect on testosterone
and oxytocin
causes them
to prioritize
relationships
and be affected
by relationships
primarily,
whereas men
tend to be
affected
and concerned
about
their physical
environment more.
Okay,
these are not
stereotypes.
This is actually
how the Lord
designed our bodies.
Okay?
So,
then,
as a male gets older,
there's another guy
you're going to meet.
This is post-puberty
for the most part.
His name is
dihydrotestosterone.
Okay?
Maybe the most
important hormone
we're talking about tonight.
Dihydrotestosterone
is what causes
our beards to grow,
our voice to zeepen,
our Adam's apple
to grow.
It's what causes us
to have more
emotional stability,
one of the things
that happens with testosterone,
it really increases
your ambition,
but it also can cause
your disposition
towards risk-taking.
One of the things,
actually,
I think I'll think about this
even in terms of movies.
If I was going to
typify testosterone
in a movie,
it would probably be
movies like
Fast and the Furious
or something like that
where it's like
a bunch of young guys
doing dumb shit
trying to impress people.
Okay?
This is very,
you know,
this is very,
you know,
middle school,
high school,
college,
which is very typified
by testosterone's
effect on young men.
Okay?
They're expanding
their territory.
They're curious.
They're learning
about things.
They're getting grip
on having ambition
in life.
But one of the things
that emerges
as men are more mature
is this other hormone,
which is testosterone's
conversion to
dihydrotestosterone.
Dihydrotestosterone,
on the other hand,
causes the real
emotional stability
that's associated
with men.
The only way I can
describe it is
dihydrotestosterone
essentially takes
the whole emotional
landscape of life
and puts it
completely under
your charge.
You still feel sadness.
You still feel fear.
You still feel anger.
All those things.
But it's very
subservient to you.
It does not have
control over you.
One of the things
with testosterone,
if you elevate it
in isolation,
it can make you
more aggressive.
It doesn't quite feel
like anger.
It feels more like
intensity.
I think that's actually
one of the things
that women sometimes
misunderstand,
that men can be
really intense,
but to them it
doesn't feel like anger.
But for the woman,
it actually does
feel like anger.
A lot of just,
if you elevate
testosterone in isolation,
you'll get a lot of that.
You'll get a lot of
this intensity
and reactiveness.
It doesn't feel like
anger,
but to the other parties
you might experience
it like anger,
if that makes sense.
Dihydrotestosterone,
on the other hand,
is very,
I'm trying to think
how I say this,
it takes very
calculated risk.
If I was to typify
dihydrotestosterone
in a movie,
it would be someone
like the character
Vito Corleone
from The Godfather.
Just someone who's
really in control,
demands a lot of respect,
takes a very
calculated risk,
knows how to
pick his battles,
pick his fights,
is not pushed around
by anybody.
This is dihydrotestosterone.
This is the more
mature male
sex steroid hormone.
I believe
that because
of the late development
of dihydrotestosterone,
a lot of women
who end up being
attracted to older men
are actually being
attracted to some
of these characteristics.
It appears
more stable.
There is this
whole development
through the lifespan
that causes men
to actually relate
with the world
very differently.
Women,
in their nature,
relate very differently.
That's kind of
like a little bit
of an introduction
to some of these
biological terms.
I know I'm doing
a lot of biology.
One of the questions
I really want to answer
is why is the culture
having something
of a strong critique
towards masculinity
that is something
that emerges
from our biology?
Well, I believe,
I think you guys
will believe too
after I say all this,
that it all happened
in the 1960s.
Two things that happened
in the 1960s
are really important
for us.
Number one,
they figured out
how to test
hormone levels
in blood.
They were able
to figure out
the actual hormone
level amounts
in the 1960s.
They basically figured out
how to make
synthetic hormones
and detect synthetic hormones
very efficiently,
both in our bodies
and also make them
in a lab.
Okay?
One of the things
that happened
in the 1960s,
sexual revolution.
I believe that essentially
the sexual revolution
is as a result
of the biological breakthroughs
that happened
around sex steroid hormones
that we were able
to first work with
efficiently
because of some
of these inventions
that happened
at the time.
And the thing
that changed
was what is known
as the pill.
Who knows
what the pill is?
What's the pill?
Birth control.
Okay.
You guys,
if you guys don't have
strong convictions
about the pill,
you're probably going to have
strong convictions
about the pill
after I finish
what I'm about to say.
Jacob's probably the only person
here who knows
what I'm about to say.
Okay.
The pill is,
let me just say
essentially what it is.
The original pill
that was developed
back in 1960s
was a version
of progesterone.
Remember,
a woman's cycle,
what makes her
more strongly
attenuated
to her relationship
to men
is estrogen.
It's what causes her
to get pregnant.
Okay.
In her second part
of her cycle
is progesterone.
They developed
a synthetic derivative
of progesterone.
It's called
a 19-nore
progestin.
Okay.
This is like
one of,
again,
you guys probably
don't know any of this.
One of the most
abused drugs
in bodybuilding
is 19-nores.
The reason is
19-nores
are,
they are
a derivative
of progesterone
that is similar
enough to testosterone
that has about
the same amount
of activity
on the progesterone
receptors
as it does
their testosterone
receptors.
So this is what
actually happened
in the 1960s.
They developed
birth control pill.
This birth control pill
caused women
to no longer
be fertile.
So there was
a sexual evolution
because we can have
sex,
men and women,
without consequence.
But it actually
made women
essentially have
an estrogen experience
that was negligible.
So what you do,
put them on a 19-nore,
you get all this
progesterone activity,
their body thinks
they are pregnant,
and you give them
a little bit of estrogen,
and you essentially
keep them in the
second half
of their cycle.
Okay?
Their body thinks
they're in the second
half of their cycle,
not the first half.
What it causes
is this is the most
independent a woman
is towards her husband
in the first place.
A woman's second
half of her cycle
is when she's
least interested
in sex,
and when she's
most chill,
and just like,
whatever,
you know,
what a woman is
in her second half
of the cycle.
Okay,
here's the other
thing that's happening
though.
It is acting
on her testosterone
receptors
as much as it is
her progesterone
receptors.
So one of the things
that happened
in the 1960s
is women
actually experience,
in a manner of speaking,
what it's like
to be a man
more than
had ever been
the case.
Unless you think
that this wasn't
very prevalent
and this didn't
actually have
super big
social ramifications,
by 1980,
that's 20 years,
80% of women
who were adults
had been
on a 19-nor
at some point.
Okay?
A vast majority
of women,
80% of women
by 1980
who were adults
had been
on a 19-nor
by that time.
So in a 20-year span,
almost all women
had been
on this kind
of birth control.
Okay?
What it caused
is for women
to experience
a lot
of the testosterone
benefits
and the disposition
of testosterone
as men
had experienced.
I believe
this is one
of the big reasons
why the sexual revolution
also ushered in
our second wave
of feminism,
which is like,
I'm woman,
hear me roar,
you know,
I don't need a man,
independent woman,
all of this.
Okay?
It fundamentally
crushed
the experience
of women
as having
this indispensable
relationship
with man
where she
was tied
into this
dance
with masculinity
where femininity
was inseparable
from masculinity.
Okay?
So,
coming up to today,
modern day
is,
because of the
ramifications of this,
it's actually
not the mainline
treatment for women
who are seeking
for birth control.
It's actually minority.
but one of the
ramifications has been
is there's a lot
of cultural perspective
of women speaking
from their real experience.
They really feel like
they don't need a man
and all this stuff.
They've entered the workforce,
all these things.
But,
it actually was enough,
in my opinion,
to really question
a lot of women's need
for the beautiful dance
that is femininity
and masculinity.
Okay?
Now,
the other thing
that was discovered
in the 60s
was our ability
to test men's
testosterone levels.
And what we discovered
around that time
is the average testosterone
level in men
was about 700 nanograms
per deciliter.
Okay?
So,
we are about 60 years
removed from there.
Currently,
the average testosterone
levels in America,
this is where,
like,
so it's about 700
in America
in the 60s.
Currently,
2020s,
the average testosterone
level in men
is about 440.
So,
the average man
in America
would need to increase
his testosterone
by a little bit
over 50%
in order
to have
the same
androgenic activity
as what
his grandpa
had
back in 1960.
So,
since then,
what's happened
is a huge decline
in some of these
really distinct
sex steroid
hormone characteristics
that really make men,
you know,
we're not little boys
and little girls anymore.
we're really different
because we're post-puberty
has really
watered down
some of the
real strong distinctions
that you would anticipate
for men
and probably could have
experienced for men
back in the 1960s
and wouldn't even have
to have a huge argument
about it
because it would have been
really,
really evident.
Right?
Sorry,
I'm just checking
with that.
All right.
So,
up to modern day.
There's another question.
Why has it dropped
so much?
Really,
I would say,
in essence,
really two main reasons.
Men,
we primarily
work inside
sitting all day.
We
eat too much,
work physically
too little.
If you look
at the
obesity rates
between
1960
and today,
obesity rates
went from
10% of men
in the United States
were obese
back in
1960.
They're at
40% today.
The rate of diabetes
went from
2% of the population
to 13%.
What I would say,
nerding out
about this stuff,
is the real
two fundamental
things
that are,
like you can
empirically test,
are that men
are way more
insulin resistant
and way more
overweight,
fundamentally.
You'd ask,
why is that?
A vast majority
of that
is because
we don't work
outside.
I would say
a vast majority
of that
is we don't
work outside,
for the most
part.
The other
thing is
we live
too indulgent
at all.
That's really
what it comes
down to.
Try not to
get too much
in the weeds
about some
of this stuff,
but one
of the things
that happens
insofar as
our bodies
are concerned,
the Lord
really designed
our bodies
to work
physically.
As a result,
what happens
is we get
gradually more
and more
insulin resistant,
which I think
the best way
to think of
insulin resistance
is when you
eat carbs,
it turns
into fat
versus
your kid,
you give
your kid
a candy bar,
they're bouncing
off the walls,
you eat
some pasta,
and you go
into a food
coma.
That's called
insulin sensitivity.
If you
work with
your body
regularly,
you break a
sweat regularly,
when you eat
carbs,
you are getting
jet fuel,
you have a lot
more energy.
When you eat
carbs,
and you are
sitting all the
time,
your body
doesn't know
what to do
with it,
and your
insulin
moves that
fat.
Also,
as you get
more obese,
you have
more of an
enzyme that's
called
aromatase.
Aromatase
converts
testosterone
to estrogen.
Again,
guys,
I'm sorry,
this is a lot
of biology,
but I think
these things
are really
relevant.
Thank you,
thank you,
Jacob.
I don't want
to hear that.
Thanks,
man.
He's the only
person here
with a medical
license,
by the way.
Okay,
basically what
happens is,
as we get
more overweight,
men convert
more testosterone
to estrogen.
Also,
as we get
more insulin
resistant,
again,
relationship to
carbs,
what happens
when you eat
pasta,
the ultimate
test of
insulin resistance
is what
happens when
you eat
pasta.
Okay?
When you're
more insulin
resistant,
your body
produces less
sex steroid
hormones,
your total
production
decreases,
and when
you're more
obese,
your body
converts more
of that to
estrogen.
I would
say,
if I could
get every
single man
in the United
States to
reverse those
two things,
I would bet
that we get
really close to
the 700
nanograms
for deciliter
that we were
in 1960.
Just that
alone.
Okay?
So,
fast forward
to modern
day.
Me and my
wife,
we help a lot
of people with
fertility.
She's about
to become
midwife.
I'm a nerd
about these
things.
So,
we have a lot
of couples
that will send
her blood
work to both
of us.
One of the
things I see
way more,
it actually
breaks my heart,
is actually
really sad.
There's a lot
of people who
are trying to
get pregnant
and they have
no clue what's
going on.
And a lot
of it is this
stuff.
We have people
who send
her blood
work and
we're just
helping out
as friends.
And the
guy's blood
work comes
back and
his testosterone
is like 200.
This is
really,
really
freaking
low.
And he's
obese and
he's insulin
resistant.
He's almost
diabetic.
And then the
wife sends
in her
blood work
her testosterone
at like 130.
Her testosterone
is supposed to
be like below
16 nanograms
per deciliter.
He should
have 10
times as high
testosterone
as she does.
Why is that
happening?
Well, for
women, when
they get
insulin resistant
just like we
are, they
cause them
to crash.
What happens
is in their
ovaries, they
have insulin
receptors.
When those
insulin receptors
are overly
active, it
causes them to
produce more
testosterone.
When they
produce more
testosterone, it
causes them to
become infertile.
And it causes
them to feel
much less like
a woman.
So one of the
things we are
fighting in the
state and
nation, this is
what I want you
guys to hear.
This is not
all about the
culture war of
belief systems.
I really believe
that a lot of
people are having
some really,
really difficult
experiences they
don't know how
to explain it.
Okay?
A lot of
these women do
not feel like
women.
Okay?
And if you look
at their blood
work, their
testosterone is
almost the same
as their
husband.
And those
husbands probably
don't feel very
much like men.
Seriously, they
do not feel very
much like men.
And who could
blame them?
I can see your
blood work and I
can tell you you
probably don't
feel very much
like a man.
Why is that?
Because he's
overweight and he's
really insulin
resistant.
Okay?
It's a very sad
thing.
It's a very sad
thing.
But a lot of
people don't
even know how
these things
connect and what
we're actually
arguing about.
Okay?
I say all that
to say, I think
that one of the
points that I
want to get
across is that
we live in a
day and age
where we can
indulge endlessly.
Okay?
We can get home
from work.
We can scroll
endlessly on our
phones.
I'm not going to
make you guys do
this right now.
But if you want
to know what
the culprit is,
just pull out
your phone,
check screen
time.
You know, we
get on our
phones, we
scroll endlessly.
Instead of going
outside and
playing with our
kids, we just
watch Netflix
with them, etc.,
etc.
When we're
needing to grab
lunch, we just
go grab fast
food, eat a bunch
of junk food.
There's a real
extent to which we
are the most
self-indulgent
generation that's
ever existed and
we are reaping the
consequences on a
health level.
Our bodies don't
work as well as
they did just 60
years ago.
Now, I want to
pivot for a second
because I'm
realizing I didn't
cover a couple
things.
I really want to
go over a couple
of distinctions
as far as
when we get
these things
right, there are
things that happen
that make women
feel more like
women and I
think these are
some things that
we should take
really seriously
as men.
One of the
things that
happens for
women is they
have these
elevated oxytocin
levels.
The more
emotionally
attuned.
It's a stereotype,
it's a true
stereotype.
One of the
things that is
an epidemic in
this day and
age is women
who feel like
they have no
need of a man
and like even
these single
moms or even
these matriarchs
of homes and
maybe some of
you are married
to a woman
where it's
actually really
hard and you
need to feel
like you are
the owner of
your home.
You feel more
like an employee
in your home.
So when I
say something,
I hope this
gives you
really good
conviction because
scripture has a
lot to say on
this.
Women only
overproduce
vasopressin under
one circumstance.
Vasopressin causes
you to assign
ownership and
protect things.
Okay?
Women only
elevate
vasopressin when
their cortisol,
their stress and
fear hormone,
is elevated.
So one of the
things that
happens, I see
this all the
time, didn't
understand this
on a biological
level to more
recently, but I've
seen this my
whole entire
life, is that
you see these
women who, let's
say, are
abandoned or
just are jaded
and they are,
let's say, the
matriarch.
Okay?
This woman has
this elevated
cortisol, so it's
driven by fear and
anxiety.
It crushes their
oxytocin and it
crushes their
estrogen.
What's happening
there is she
is having maybe
more of a
disposition for
responsibility and
she is feisty and
fights about
everything, but
it's actually
because she is
losing her
femininity as a
result of
giving in to
a role that she
was not made
for.
The Lord
designed men,
again,
testosterone
opposes
cortisol,
men have an
ability to
have elevated
testosterone,
they're able to
experience fear
and navigate
fear without
having, or
they're able to
experience
conflict and
navigate conflict
and even exert
authority without
having it
elevate their
fear of life.
Okay?
This is actually
one of the main
reasons I
actually think
that there is
confusion in our
culture in this
day and age
about whether
or not women
should be in
these primary
positions of
authority, let's
say president of
the United States,
let's say a
general in the
military, let's
say even in
charge of their
own home.
Women are not
designed for
positions of
authority that
necessitate high
conflict.
They're literally
not designed for
it.
What will happen
is it will
crush their
femininity, and
this is what we
see in women.
Men are designed
for those
positions.
Okay?
Men are meant
to protect.
Men are meant
to own, right?
So, basically, my
perspective that
there is, you
know, this whole
natural development,
but then also
there's this kind
of interesting
historical development,
and then one last
thing I just want
to say about the
historical development,
I think there is,
as a result of
kind of where
things are concerning
these topics, a
real confusion,
especially about
Gen Z coming up.
So Gen Z, we
think our obesity
rates are bad, and
our pre-diabetic
rates are bad.
It's way worse
for Gen Z, okay?
These kids are
just a bunch of
screen kids.
They're eating
bad food.
Like, I'm trying
to think how
to say this.
The average
adult male, 40%
obese, 13%
diabetic, the
trajectory that
Gen Z is on is
way, way worse.
So one of the
things that's
happening for
these kids as
they're going
through puberty is
they end up in
this hormonal
purgatory, okay?
So what
happens?
They don't quite
feel like a
woman.
They don't quite
feel like a
man.
So then what
happens?
Pharmaceuticals
come along, and
now, what if
you're really a
woman trapped in
an ant's body,
okay?
So now what we're
going to do, we're
going to put you on
a dose of
testosterone and
an aromatase
inhibitor that's going
to prevent your
testosterone from
over-converting to
estrogen.
What's going to
happen?
You, woman, who
feels like you're
in hormonal
purgatory, are
now going to
feel approximately
like what ballpark
of a healthy male
would feel, and it
feels a whole lot
better than what
you were experiencing.
Now your friends
are really confused,
floating in
nothingness, and
you're going to
preach the
gospel.
You've got to
get on HRT.
You're really a
man.
You're not really a
woman, and vice
versa.
So what's
happening is, in
my opinion, a
lot of this kind
of like bullshit
pharmaceutical therapy
is just making the
landscape even more
confusing, if that
makes sense.
So from my
perspective, I
actually believe
that men are
men, women are
women, and a
lot of these
distinctions, a
lot of this dance
needs to be
facilitated and
called out, and
even people should
rise to, I think
men should rise to
the occasion, and
actually kind of
address these
things not
through cheat
codes, but
actually through
the practices of
life.
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mean?
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