It's likely a correlation between:

Amount of processed foods eaten

Amount of pesticides on and in foods

Amount of environmental synthetic birth control hormones

Emphasis on high carb, low protein, low healthy fats consumed

Amount of seed oils consumed

Lack of running around outside growing up

Houses being too well sealed/never experiencing hot and cold extremes

Poor sleeping habits

Being fat (effects aside from poor eating habits and bad foods, it's really bad for people)

Lack of fitness

Too much medication

Lack of healthy gut biome

Not eating traditional fermented foods

Too much alcohol

Too much cannabis

Too little motivation toward actual physical sexual relationships (probably from much too young exposure to porn and all the beauty influencers)

Too much social media leading to dopamine addiction

Et cetera.

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Yes 👍 I would agree it’s got to be a combination

No, it isn't. And not meant, or not enough, people realize any of this.

Those were my immediate assumptions too, more or less.

I would have also been prepared for more obscure psychosocial explanations - status of men/masculinity, size of social groups, locus of control.

But no - look, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan are at opposite extremes.

WTF...?

Yeah those two (Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan) are what’s throwing me off… 😵‍💫

Belarus vs Russia/Ukraine, too.

Well Russia they eat more lamb, goat, beef, and some horse as well. In Ukraine it’s more pork and I think chicken? Maybe that has some difference?

But I know this famous chocolate from Kazakhstan has a flavor enhancer (I know because I’m allergic to it) so maybe they add that in other foods? Maybe Uzbekistan does not use that?

China LOVES its flavour enhancer 621, but they're upper-middle for T.

Oh that’s true… 😵‍💫

@StellaInForest is gonna love this, look at the map:

It correlates with war.

Look at the Balkans.

What the hell is going over in Portland, Oregon?

Ohhh… that’s a good observation, but in today’s time the US has created most of the wars going on at the moment. 🤷‍♀️