Dr. Mike Israetel: Seed Oils, Testosterone and Capitalism | Doomscroll

It's been a lot of conversation in the last few years that if you do challenge yourself physically, uh, you will not be able to maintain your progressive, liberal, left-wing politics, what have you. That by lifting weights, it turns you rightwing. I'm going to read you a quote here. It says, "Any man who improves his body through sun and steel will drift away from the modern left, a program of decrepitude and resentful monstrosity.

They know this and are afraid." Does that make sense to you? >> Yes. In context. In context.

Absolutely. >> Yeah. Like when a kid says they see ghosts in the room, I get you. I feel you, kid.

Yeah. Ghosts are real bad. Yeah. >> No, here's the thing.

You can steal man that. You can steal man that position. You can say that um demonstrating your own internal locus of control, seeing how much you can radically improve your life just by willfully going and doing difficult things can um inoculate you at least to some contentious ideas on the extreme left like uh society is wholly responsible for how you turn out. Well, that can't possibly be true if I could make a choice to do this or to do that.

And so it can do some of that, but like you know the sun and steel like what the [ __ ] does the sun have to do with getting jacked? I don't [ __ ] it. It's got like it just >> it's from Hyperoreia I think is the technical >> wing [ __ ] smash the lefties kind of like you like a man like I get it. Nobody sucked your dick in middle school and now you're pissed about it.

Like word man I've been there. [Music] >> Welcome to Doom Scroll. I'm your host Joshua Cinderella. My guest is Dr.

Mike Israel, a PhD of sport physiology and a co-founder of Renaissance periodization. We've been talking about the 1970s. There's uh an abundance of studies about declining testosterone levels, particularly in the advanced world, that they are roughly half of what the average modal man had in 1970. >> The testosterone stuff uh mostly doesn't track if you look into the data deeply.

Yeah. Okay. >> So, one thing is like uh your masturbation frequency highly impacts testosterone levels as measured and sperm counts. Uh and ...