Blood & Ink: Tuesday

You can reliably shift a man’s political orientation by increasing his testosterone levels…

While still a nascent area of study, there are many studies (here, here, here) that show as little as a single dose of testosterone reliably nudges male political disposition toward the right.

This is compounded by the fact that male hormone levels have been in an absolute freefall for almost a century now. 

Testosterone is an ‘on demand’ hormone—you put yourself in situations where great action is needed (hunting, fighting, competition) and your body produces it.

Modern civilization demands none of this from men.

Urban city life is a barrage of testosterone-devastating influences: artificial light, sedentary lifestyle, plastic exposure, chemicals everywhere, lack of nutrition, etc. 

Most people feel strongly about their political beliefs and orientations. 

They feel that they are correct, and most importantly — they feel like they have thoughtfully and ‘heartfully’ reasoned themselves into this correct political orientation. 

What does it mean that once you return a man to his natural and ancestral levels of testosterone – his deeply held ‘correct’ political beliefs change in lockstep?

To be clear: this is not about getting a man to insane beyond-natural Hulk levels of his hormones: this is simply returning men to their evolutionary baseline.

I am extremely interested in this. The implications are enormous.

An alternative (and more challenging) way to say this:

Most men are walking around in a distorted and unnatural physiological state, and their political leanings reflect this distortion.

How much weight do you give something when it’s coming from a distortion?

Get your blood tested Warriors. Sort out your hormones.

Then we’ll talk shop,
Eric Brown.