Want to Slow Down the Transgenderism Agenda? Clean Out Your Refrigerator.

Learn the the top 6 reasons why America has lost its testosterone.

I’ve had a lot of phone calls in the last week from parents across Washington state, asking me what we’re going to do about the transgenderism agenda being pushed in public schools.

Firstly, the best time to slow this agenda was last year when health and sex ed curriculum committees were convening to adopt the updates required by RCW 28A.300.475 on Comprehensive Sexual Education. As a state policy, parents are invited to serve on these committees.

Myself and several like-minded parents got on that committee in our school district and successfully had 90% of the objectionable material deleted from the lessons for middle and highschool.  I wrote about my experience on this committee last May in “Is There a Radical Solution for the Debate Over Comprehensive Sex Ed”.

Teachers and administrators welcome you on curriculum committees—I’m not kidding.

Why? Because they would rather have parental input in the selection and editing process of choosing a new curriculum rather than deal with your complaints after the curriculum has been adopted and paid for. It’s good CYA for the school district, and it’s the best way parents can be directly involved. When my son rolls his eyes about having to attend Health class instead of PE next week, I can legitimately tell him I’ve read every word of his lessons.

Unfortunately, most parents don’t know about this opportunity to serve, or don’t want to be bothered.

If you missed the committee, you likely got an email from the school letting you know that you could review the curriculum and give feedback before the school board officially adopted it.   If you missed that email, then your next step is to review the curriculum at the school district office and decide if your child will partake in the lessons, or opt out. 

Before our elementary curriculum was adopted I posted a message in our district’s FB parents group and asked them to review the curriculum and give feedback. I’m very disappointed to say that most parents responded with an excuse as to why they were too busy to do it. 

And we wonder why teachers are frustrated with parents…

What else can we do to slow the transgender agenda?

Decades before transgenderism became a political agenda,  testosterone levels in developed countries started dropping, noticeably—especially in the United States. Why? Because Big Food and Big Pharma are having an affair.

It’s important to be clear that the media hype and political agenda around transgenderism didn’t just pop up out of nowhere. It’s partially an organic by-product of a hormone-deficient population.

This article verifies that men’s levels of testosterone have been dropping by 1% every year since the 1950s.

Today, 10-40% of the adult male population is testosterone deficient, according to Urology Times.

Guys, if you’re older and your testosterone is low, you’re not likely to see it in the mirror.  You won’t lose your chest hair, develop a higher voice and start obsessing over Nicholas Sparks movies.  What you will notice is that it’s harder to keep weight off, you’re losing muscle mass quicker than you want to admit and your bones are weaker. In other words—you’ve got a “dad bod”. Erectile dysfunction among younger men is legit. That little blue pill wasn’t invented because silver foxes wanted to get frisky. The average age of men prescribed Viagra, Cialis and their generic versions is 39 - 40, with most of the prescriptions being filled in the Northeast states and California.  Why are the boys on the metropolitan coasts popping the blue pill more than guys in the flyover states? I’ll let you think about that. I’ve got my own opinions. Read the demographics study here.

Women’s levels of testosterone have waned considerably as well.  Low testosterone reduces our libido, makes us feel chronically tired, weakens our bones, makes us gain weight, reduces our muscle mass and makes our menstrual cycles so irregular it’s hard to get pregnant.  This is why we’re mainlining coffee all day and decorating our kitchens with kitschy decor and tea towels preaching the gospel of coffee. Caffeine gives us a brief experience of what it would be like if we had normal testosterone levels. But it’s nothing but a brief mirage, followed by a downer. 

Combine the above data with this next point, and you have a curious conundrum—

The transgender community is made up of 2 - 4 times more biological males transitioning to appear more feminine than biological females transitioning to appear more masculine. Read the demographics paper here.

Top 6 Reasons We’re in Hormone Hell

#1 National Sugar Addiction = Obesity = Aromatase Enzymes = Lower Testosterone

Your testosterone levels drop the moment you eat sugar.  Sugar invariably leads to weight gain, and when you have extra body fat you have something called aromatase enzymes flying around gathering testosterone and converting it to estrogen.

We don’t need a funded study to know that we eat a thousand times more processed sugar and carbohydrates compared to our grandparents. But it’s significant to recognize that “added sugar” in our diet has more than tripled since the 1970s.

Added sugar isn’t the sugar you measure out and put in your coffee, it’s the sugar you don’t notice is in the ingredient list of foods you otherwise thought were savory or salty—like sauces, crackers, chicken strips, beef jerky, breakfast sausage, unflavored oat milk, plain coffee creamer, and just about everything processed that is now marketed as “plant-based”.

Grains convert to sugar in the body, so the same testosterone lowering mechanism applies when you eat grains, too.

I’m not a doctor. (Does that make me more credible or less credible these days?) But I have had a practice as a certified health and weight loss coach since 2004. My father died of obesity and cancer when I was a kid so I was launched into life with a vehement hatred for all things toxic to the body.

I was the serial dieter. Nutrition was my religion.  And I have to admit that my heaviest, most inflamed years were my explorations into veganism.  When Covid sent us all home, I decided to try veganism again with as much emphasis on whole foods (nothing processed) as possible.  Unfortunately, that’s when I gained the most weight and felt the crappiest.  I feel great now and have finally started losing weight, but I’ll tell you how I’m doing that later in the article.

#2 Hipsters & Microbrews = Hops Mania = Manboobs

Sorry guys—hops is a superstar at lowering testosterone and raising estrogen, which relaxes you, slows you down, reduces your anxiety, and unfortunately—gives you manboobs over the long term. Search “hops and manboobs” on the interwebs and you’ll see hundreds of articles dancing around the topic, basically saying “sorry guys, your beer is turning your body into a girl but don’t worry, be happy and drink up!”

Here’s a great example from Vice.

And here’s an article for women who want to use hops to enlarge their breasts. Spoiler alert—it’s great for breastfeeding, but you won’t be busting out of your bra overnight. You’ll have to take hops for years to get results and it’s likely that all of your body will enlarge just as fast as your breasts will.

I have a good friend who has been growing hops in his garden and making tasty microbrews at home. He gifted me a little bottle of a hops tincture (super concentrated essence of hops magic that you take by the drop, not the sip) which he said was great for reducing anxiety and promoting sleep.  He was right—it worked like a charm. That made me curious about what long-term consumption of hops was doing to the human population if a strong tincture of it would knock me out at night.   

The word “spineless” came to mind. But I’ll save that discussion for my article on the challenge of dating in your 40s. Suffice it to say, my dating profile reads “if you don’t own any power tools and you’re scared of spiders, do not apply”. 

I have stories. I once dated a city boy in his 50s who wanted to hire a contractor just to caulk his kitchen sink, because he didn’t know how.  I caulked it for him. He cocked nothing for me.  

Oh…so many stories. 

#3 Vegetable Oil is a Flaccid Branding Ploy

Vegetable oil isn’t really from vegetables, like you think of broccoli, kale and celery. Manufacturers started calling seed oils “vegetable” to give them a sexy makeover, but the truth is that they’re usually made from canola, rapeseed (unfortunate name, but true), safflower seed, palm, peanut or soybeans.  Seed oils are getting a really bad rap these days, and for good reason.  Read here. They also kill your testosterone levels.

#4 Soy—Nature’s Fake Estrogen

 Soy is a phytoestrogen. My 12 year-old son says the phrase “soy boy” is being tossed around in middle school right now, but amidst the chaos of the transgender agenda, the kids don’t really know how to use it. Is it an insult; is it a compliment; is it racist; or is it going to get you sent to the principle’s office?  Poor kids are confused. I asked my son what he thought it meant. He said “it’s a kid who whines a lot.”  

You might think you’re in the clear with this one because you don’t drink soy milk or eat tofu, but soybean by-products are everywhere. Read your labels.

#5 The Worldwide Sleep Deprived

Do I even need to explain this one?  Gentleman, can you create fireworks in the bedroom when you’re chronically tired and overworked?  Ladies, when was the last time you got 7 nights in a row of abundant sleep?  Not since your mama was in charge of your bedtime, right?   There’s a reason there’s a Starbucks on every street corner. 

My key to world peace — get the entire planet to turn off Netflix and go to bed early, tonight.

#6 Estrogen in Our Nations Waterways = Intersex Fish, and Gender-Neutral Teenagers

According to an article in Scientific American, our rivers and public water supply are testing positive for crazy levels of estrogen. There are a myriad of theories as to why—some speculate it’s from ladies peeing their birth control pills and estrogen creams back into our water supply. Others blame the estrogenic compounds in herbicides, pesticides, plastic products, cosmetics, and industrial solvents. Bottled water seems to be worse than tap water, read here.

Filter your water, people—for more reasons than just estrogen. That little dispenser on your fridge is not going to do the trick. Do your research and invest some coin. I use a Kangen water filter, but I know there are a LOT of other options for good water filters that are less pricey. Mine is the Rolls-Royce of filters. It alkalizes, electrolyzes and hydrogenizes my tap water until it’s practically holy. My friend calls my water “boujee” because I dropped $4K on this machine. I don’t see it as a luxury but rather a necessity, like a car—and they’re approved medical devices in Japanese hospitals.

Kangen guarantees their machines for 30 years. I love how the Japanese shun forced obsolescence. I just had to own something once in my lifetime that would last long enough to give to my son when he goes away to college. Email me if you want to get hooked up with a demo (eryn@eryndefoort.com). I know a guy.  

Down the Rabbit Hole, and Basted in Butter

There’s a very popular movement happening right now that has worked so well to increase testosterone levels that even post-menopausal women are getting accidentally pregnant, men are reporting more fireworks between the sheets, and everyone who has tried it is raving about dramatically improved mood and energy. It’s called the “carnivore” diet.  It’s simple--eat only meat and animal fats until you feel better.

A couple months ago I stopped eating sugar and processed grains.  Then I took it a step further and went carnivore, or another name for it is the “Lion Diet”, popularized by Jordan Peterson’s daughter, Mikaila. She and her dad cured extreme auto-immune symptoms by doing what is essentially a hard-core elimination diet.

This movement has become very hip among “patriots” (be careful when you use that word in public—it might land you in jail for being pro-liberty), possibly as a counterpoint to Bill Gate’s wish for us to eat crickets, and the World Economic Forum pushing plant-based diets as a cure for climate change. Going vegan will save the world with the same rate of efficacy as buying an electric car.  It’ll make you look like you care, but in the long run will take more resources (water, electricity, mined minerals and fuels) to produce and sustain.

What’s Happened Since I Shunned Grains and Welcomed Steak? 

It would be more accurate to assess real results in 6 months or more.  But right now I’m shocked by the difference.  Joint pain—gone. Not just better, but GONE. Going to the loo at night—not anymore. Weight loss—heck, yeah! My skinnier jeans are back in rotation!  Energy—I don’t need coffee, at all.  Hungry?  Nope, I eat butter with everything.  And I stopped eating 3 meals a day. Lions don’t graze, they feast on occasion and prowl around and look sexy the rest of the time.

Do I Think Eating Only Meat is the Ideal Human Diet?  Actually, No. 

After devoting 25 years of my life to being a nutrition guru, I think humans have no clue what the ideal human diet is. For years I believed that eating plants was the more spiritually evolved choice, even though I always felt better on meat. But I just can’t argue with the thousands of YouTubers who are raving about a “carnivore” lifestyle curing their depression and anxiety. It did the same for me.

Since our kids’ mental health is the hottest topic among school administrators right now, and most kids are living on processed grains and sugar, it’s a logical deduction to conclude that diet is at the heart of the problem.  I increased my son’s intake of meat and animal fats, and I saw a shift in his mood and energy immediately.  He stopped begging for sweets.

Is it perhaps spiritually immature and arrogant to think that we actually know what’s best to eat when we’ve been getting sicker over time?

The most wise position to take on human diet might be simple curiosity, and a willingness to experiment with everything until we find what works for us as individuals. 

What I do know is that our food supply is compromised beyond repair.  Eating “organic” is like bringing a BB gun to a war. Glyphosate (thanks Monsanto), is everywhere—even in foods that try to be non-GMO and organic.  Perhaps eating nothing but meat is the only way to give our bodies a break from the chemicals we’ve poured into the soil.   I don’t know, but as long as I feel this good I’m willing to give this a try. I’ve binge-watched “before and after” YouTube videos from people who have gone carnivore, and they’re curing almost anything that ails you. The story lines are more addictive than six seasons of Outlander. And as my BFF pointed out, (who is also doing this diet with me), Jaime and Claire are eating a lot of meat, too—especially in the first season.

But What About the Politics and Pedophiles?

I haven’t touched on the political origins of the Transgendersim agenda. That conversation deserves its own article. The tie between children transitioning and pedophilia among politicians is so stomach-turning that I’ll have to steal my nerves to go there.  I’m not ignoring it, I’m just trusting that if you read this article you’re probably already well-versed on that topic. If you’re not, go look up Cathy O’Brien’s story on You Tube. She’s an MK Ultra survivor who has a few stories about Joe Biden and his love of transgendered children.

For now, let’s concentrate on the aspect that we can control in our own homes.  Consider changing your diet and changing your children’s diet.  Do your own research. Be curious.  I would never presume to know what’s best for your kids—I’m just offering my own experience.

What our families consume—through our mouths and our brains, is the part we can take responsibility for today.

Remember your body is your temple. And go to bed early tonight.

Vive La Testosterone!