A Man Is A Biological Man

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.

Birth control.

Okay.

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