How Drinks With Sugar(SSBs) Affect Testosterone

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TLDR: sugar-sweetened beverages(SSBs) are associated with lower serum total testosterone concentration in men ages 20-39 years old.[1] *If SSBs are associated with lower testosterone for men 20-39 years old, you can safely assume it lowers testosterone for all men.

Drinking your calories is almost always bad for your body, unless those calories come from a high-quality protein shake, or the rare high-calorie, high-health-value drink, like Kefir. This is because most liquid calories, for the average, the unaware, and the undisciplined, come from SSBs.

Between the years 2011 and 2012, the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics collected data on the testosterone levels of 545 US men aged 20-39 years old, to analyze the effects of sugar-sweetened beverages(SSBs) on testosterone levels.

They collected dietary information as well as testosterone levels, then sorted the men into four groups based on the number of calories from SSBs they consumed per day.

This data was then analyzed by Chinese researchers at the Guangdong General Hospital / Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences. The hospital is a grade 3 class A hospital, China’s highest and most prestigious hospital classification.

The group of men that had the highest consumption of SSB’s had significantly higher odds of having low testosterone compared to the group with the lowest consumption of SSB’s. This was observed across race/ethnicity, income ratio, body mass index, and a few other factors.

The study noted that, “The immediate effects of glucose ingestion also include significant decreases in total and free testosterone levels in men.” Also noted, “SSB intake was inversely associated with progressive sperm motility, with lower sperm motility shown in adult males with higher intake of SSBs…”

Other insights from the study

Testosterone deficiency comes with other issues such as low libido, erectile dysfunction, decreased muscle, decreased strength, decreased bone density, increased body fat, and “overall reductions in vitality and quality of life”.[1]

Sugar-sweetened beverages(SSBs) are the primary source of sugar in the United States. SSBs can easily be removed from one’s diet and significantly reduce the risk of diabetes, heart disease, and other diseases.

In America, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program(SNAP) that provides food benefits to low-income families, allows SSBs and sugar containing foods as part of the program. The USDA estimates that 39% of all SNAP participants were obese.

When total testosterone concentrations are reduced, reproductive functions can be impaired. If you are trying to start or grow a family, consuming SSB’s will work against you.

SSB’s appear to work against all matters of fulfillment, while encouraging consumers to pursue pleasure, which cannot be fulfilled.

What to do With This SSB Testosterone Information

“Overall reductions in vitality and quality of life.”

SSBs(sugar sweetened beverages) reduce your vitality and your QUALITY OF LIFE. A drink with sugar reduces your fulfillment and appreciation of life itself. Sugary beverages make life worse. Drink sugar, experience a worse life. For every full-sugar soda you drink, your life becomes worse.

SSBs are insidious. The American Heart Association recommends no more than 36 grams of sugar per day for the average person to be healthy; we want to be so much more than average–we want to be exceptional.

The average can of Coke contains 39 grams of sugar. SSBs go down easy and take you down with them.

Drinking sugar moves you closer to Hell. Does that mean drinking water moves you closer to Heaven? We think so.

If you pursue the pleasure contained inside of SSBs, you will be encouraged to pursue additional pleasures because testosterone is vitality that helps you move forward down the path. If low testosterone impedes vitality, which impedes the spirits’ desire for fulfillment, the wanderer will pursue what is easy and cannot be fulfilled, creating a hellish self-reinforcing cycle.

A single soda can take you off the path.

The average, unaware, and undisciplined laugh at this statement.

The wanderer in pursuit of fulfillment understands it.

Defend and support the hormones that encourage you to pursue fulfillment. By doing so, you will obtain more fulfillment and live a better life.

There is no constructive fulfillment-based reason to consume SSB’s; there is only the pain of the pursuit of pleasure, or the reward of earned pleasure, only to return to the path promptly.

If you’re trying to start or grow a family, sugary beverages will work against you if you consume them.

Be cautious of alcohol in general, and cautious of alcoholic drinks that contain sugar, like the classic rum and Coke. Alcohol also reduces testosterone.

This isn’t to say to never have pleasure, but to choose your pleasures wisely, and reward yourself with pleasure when you have earned it, and to never pursue pleasure.

To live a fulfilled life, you have to walk the path towards fulfillment. Stopping at The Inn of Pleasure is fine. Living at The Inn is not.

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