ESTROGEN CRISIS
BY JED WIGHTMAN
Well folks , friends , followers , readers and all of you incredible human beings out there , it ’ s already 2022 ! Time seems to move faster as we get older and while life gets more complex , interesting , beautiful and bizarre , all at the same time , life is nothing other than a blessing and a gift . On the contrary , the older we get the more apparent it is , waking up to this gift of life each day , and being so grateful to be here experiencing it with all of you . Our world has been changing rapidly as of late , and seemingly right before our eyes , I think we can all agree it ’ s quickly becoming a much stranger world out there than ever before in our lifetimes .
Remember that show Seinfeld ? Such an incredible , hilarious and often very ironic show . I remember one episode called bizarro world or something to that effect , remember it ? Jerry woke up and everything was the same but , different … well I feel like I went to bed and woke up in bizarro world with no Kramer to lighten it up .
What I ’ m referring to specifically is the state of our culture in North America ( and yes the world ), pertaining to the current narrative of ; “ Fit , and , Healthy ” to “ overweight , fat ” and “ unhealthy ”.
Let me explain ; When we see the encouragement , promotion and support of human beings who are truly overweight to obese and with little to no muscle , as “ The New Fit ”? WHAT ?? When the healthy , muscular , strong and physically capable humans are labeled as toxic , egotistical , hyper masculine , or are shamed and shunned . We are all living the “ bizarro world ” I mentioned earlier . We are witness to how these current “ norms ” are largely fuelled by and coincide with a culture hopped up on Mountain Dew … kidding , but not really , you ’ ll see . Simply we are experiencing the effects of a culture on Estrogen Overload .
What pops into your mind when you read the word “ Estrogen ”? I will step out on a limb and bet you thought of women or hormones or both . If you are a nerd like me , you may have thought of structure bonds or molecular formulas . Either way , we understand at a basic biological level , that Women = Estrogen & Men = Testosterone .
From our beginnings ( as to what we know so far ), we ’ ve been around this Earth for about 2 1 / 2 million years . If we date back to 120,000-150,000 years ago , our Neanderthal cross breeding with Cro-Magnon man , our upper Palaeolithic to lower Palaeolithic predecessors . The evidence shows in the oldest discovered human remains found in a burial site in Qaszfa , Israel , up to only the last two decades . These remains have found to show that both men and women had much more muscle and significantly less fat on their bodies .
In the 21st century up until very recently , the average weight of a man 5 ’ 10 ” was 175lbs . Now its 210lbs , the average weight for a 5 ’ 3 ” woman was 135lbs , now it is 175lbs . Digest that for a minute , pretty interesting isn ’ t it ? This is not a slow evolution either ; it is only in the last 2-3 decades . This rapid , massive change has ripped through North America and the globe , a change which is unfolding more and more each day .
So pretty much for our whole existence , these two hormones have governed over us very simply , two of the many facets and factors of our existence , from procreation and survival of the human race , to all biological traits in our male and female human history .
Today we will focus on two fundamentals , Testosterone and Estrogen , two things which govern our world of physique , sports , training and nutrition . This life we think we know so well , these two hormones are in the very forefront , simply they represent fat and muscle . As you can imagine from the title Estrogen Crisis , our focus is on just this , as it ’ s the very connection to the stark change we are seeing in our current times . I know , * yawn * “ science ” stuff right ? Ok , so I won ’ t bore you or get into the complicated biochemistry , I ’ m going to explain in real world examples and with my very own personal journey .
Estrogen is produced in females at adolescence as a foundation of proper development through puberty , Testosterone in males at the same time . These two hormones , respectively increase throughout the teenage to young adult years then back off and are supposed to normalize into “ homeostasis ” stability and equilibrium at adulthood . All this to maximize proper development , and all accoutrements thereof , ensuring the foundations
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