Posts made by Insr

@brad Yeah that would be awesome. I don't have enough data to do that properly at the moment, but I will probably be able to show the USA's rising TSH at least from the late 80's to today.

my current TSH spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vTOE6ppgrSLoLynKe75kYphJ5rwoBgIJhLtN1W4czknpeO1-yZzAc2qCP1Wt21tl_e0ci7K0-Y4mbcC/pubhtml

current TSH map:

(based on single datapoints mostly, so parts of it could be totally different in reality!)

First thing I notice is that a lot of it (but not all?) correlates with the testosterone map

which is unsurprising because thyroid and testosterone are strongly connected it seems
Hypothyroid brazillians went from 279 ng/dl to 715 ng/dl testosterone when given 0.2 mg T3 for a month
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/j.1939-4640.1988.tb01038.x

@Dakota I don't know what causes it. But the form of decline that region stereotypically has suggests bioenergetic problems to me. That kind of "can't summon the energy to repair the shed when a tree falls on it, just let it sit there half broken" kind of thing. That "what's the use" feeling. I'm pretty familiar with a "who cares" despair in myself, it's a vicious cycle of low energy.

(no offense WV bros. To be honest I haven't spent a lot of time there. And I'm picking WV as the most representative, but sadly I think a lot of the rural parts of the country have some of this going on.)

With that in mind I'd say the Peatiest place to live would be a place where there's a feedback loop of good energy, cultural structure: people doing things, caring about things, being positive, enterprising, having good energy. That energy is infectious.

I have a theory that west virginia suffers from endemic hypothyroidism.

I have a site where I've posted a research project I did on testosterone levels worldwide, and how they vary in different situations. I was looking to answer the question "why are testosterone levels dropping." It's a work in progress and at times shill-ish (you know i will be selling ebooks soon)

The site: https://testosteronedecline.com/

A big map of test levels: https://testosteronedecline.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Testosterone-Levels-Worldwide-full-size.png

I am doing more research, and putting together more resources so I wanted to have a thread here for discussion, critiques, suggestions, etc.

There's stuff I haven't published yet, for example a similar world map of TSH levels, info on anogenital distance variation (an indication of prenatal testosterone), correlations between diet and testosterone levels in NHANES data - but I want to discuss stuff here before I publish it to the world.