Healthy Males Have High Sex Drives — But Today's Men Don't - The Federalist

“Our study suggests that lack of sexual interest is associated with all-cause mortality in males, even after adjustment for age, diabetes, hypertension, dyslipidemia, smoking, alcohol intake, BMI, education, marital status, frequency of laughter, and psychological distress,” they wrote.

“About three years into dating, Zach tells me he struggles with erectile dysfunction, and that he takes a medication for it,” says Cleo Abram, a Vox reporter-turned-YouTuber who is married to Zachariah Reitano, the founder of Roman.

But Dr. Keith Nichols, an endocrinologist in east Tennessee, blames the epidemic of ED and just about every other crisis facing men today on plummeting testosterone levels, which have dropped by double digits since the 1980s.

Another study published in 2021 by a team of European, American, and Israeli scientists found testosterone therapy linked to better metabolic health, sexual function, mobility, bone density, and quality of life while lowering depressive symptoms.

Nichols pointed to a series of studies finding that chemicals commonly found in plastics, personal hygiene products, and our processed food supply interfere with healthy endocrine systems.

“The mechanisms of their adverse actions may be diverse,” they wrote, “but one important end point is reduced capacity of Leydig cells to produce androgens,” referring to the male sex hormones that catalyze puberty and regulate reproductive health.