{"id":13586,"date":"2018-03-30T20:20:12","date_gmt":"2018-03-31T00:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mdcthereporter.com\/?p=13586"},"modified":"2020-09-09T16:12:58","modified_gmt":"2020-09-09T20:12:58","slug":"low-testosterone-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/low-testosterone-left\/","title":{"rendered":"Low Testosterone And The Left"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Vice<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a heaping pile of garbage, even for a so-called news organization. In spite of this, it does not stop their articles from popping up on my Facebook news feed. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Usually, I glance over and take a look at the goods they\u2019re trying to sell to their mostly female and pre-pubescent audience, have a hearty chuckle and move on. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One article, in particular, piqued my interest: <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gym Bros More Likely to be Right-Wing Assholes, Science Confirms<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, or, in plain English: men who are physically strong are more likely to have right-wing political views. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What image pops up when you think of a man who self-describes himself as a feminist? A white Black Lives Matter activist apologizing for the sins of his ancestors? A pinko shouting hippity-hoppity, abolish all property? An avid Japanese cartoon enthusiast? The image forming in your head definitely does not resemble the likes of Arnold Schwarzenegger, that I can tell you. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Could it be that political positions are genetically predetermined?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to research published in Psychological Science, a journal of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologicalscience.org\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Association for Psychological Science<\/span><\/a>, this particular investigation observed that men\u2019s upper-body strength predicts their political opinions on economic redistribution (a core tenet of socialism). What\u2019s fascinating is not necessarily the fact that body strength (and testosterone, by default) play a role in socio-political-economic views, but that such a link evolved in order to better preserve mankind\u2019s limited resources: the study claims \u201cpolitical views are designed by natural selection to function in the conditions recurrent over human evolutionary history\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In brief, strong men prefer the path of self-interest and leadership while weak men are more reluctant to assert their self-interest and prefer the security from groups and submission.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Another review published in Psychological Science concluded that the structure of a man\u2019s face (facial width-to-height ratio) may indicate his tendency to express racially prejudiced beliefs and is associated with testosterone-related behaviors of social dominance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A journal from the International Society of Political Psychology<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">titled \u201cLinking Genetics and Political Attitudes: Reconceptualizing Political Ideology\u201d supports the findings aforementioned in the above studies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A study called \u201cIs Sociopolitical Egalitarianism Related to Bodily and Facial Formidability in Men?\u201d by researchers from Brunel University confirms once again that physically attractive, strong men, who regularly go to the gym, are more likely to be conservative.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If I sound repetitive, good, you\u2019re noticing a pattern. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cKlemm,\u201d you think, \u201cThat\u2019s all well and fine, but so what? Maybe low testosterone is not so bad!\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wrong. Men suffering from low testosterone will experience a stunted sex drive, difficulty getting\/keeping it up, low sperm volume (an epidemic only found in Western countries), hair loss, fatigue, loss of muscle mass, increased body fat, decreased bone mass, mood changes and, the most important one, cognitive impairment. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Department of Geriatrics in Saint-Etienne University Hospitals of France outright suggests \u201clow endogenous levels of testosterone may be related to reduced cognitive ability\u201d in their medical paper Testosterone and Cognitive Function: Current Clinical Evidence of a Relationship.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In conclusion, if you have a calling to redistribute the wealth, get your T checked.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vice is a heaping pile of garbage, even for a so-called news organization. In spite of this, it does not stop their articles from popping up on my Facebook news feed. Usually, I glance over and take a look at the goods they\u2019re trying to sell to their mostly female and pre-pubescent audience, have a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":482,"featured_media":9011,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[75,138,2090],"class_list":{"0":"post-13586","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-forum","8":"tag-politics","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-testosterone"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Low Testosterone And The Left<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Alexander J\u00fcrgen Klemm explains how levels of testosterone can determine if a man\u2019s political views are liberal or conservative.\" 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