Male Sex Hormones Are a Big Deal, Too

Natural Womanhood ^ | November 22, 2019 | Grace Stark

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

This is Your Brain on Birth Control, a new book by Dr. Sara E. Hill takes a remarkably deep dive into the myriad ways that hormonal contraception alters women’s bodies, demonstrating that our sex hormones have an enormous impact on how our brains and bodies function. As we learn more about the consequences of altering women’s hormonal balance with contraception, we’ve come to find that those consequences can be very serious, indeed—in some cases, even fatal. Although the book is about the consequences of meddling with the hormones of women of reproductive age, it should also serve as a cautionary tale against male contraception and the risks of fiddling with men’s hormones.

While women’s sex hormones (estrogen and progesterone) tend to get more attention because of their relationship to the monthly cycle and to pregnancy, men’s sex hormones (primarily testosterone), are often something of an afterthought (unless a man is experiencing some form of sexual dysfunction or infertility), mostly because they don’t cycle on a monthly basis as women’s do. But interesting research about men’s changing testosterone levels in response to fatherhood shows that men’s hormones drive their brains and bodies as much as women’s. Testosterone appears to have an impact on who men are the same way that estrogen and progesterone do on women.

For instance, a 2011 study came to the following conclusions:

“Single nonfathers with higher T [testosterone] at baseline were more likely to be partnered fathers 4.5 [years] later. After becoming partnered fathers, these men experienced dramatic reductions in both waking and evening T, which were substantially greater than the age-related declines observed in single nonfathers. Our finding that caregiving fathers had lower than fathers who did not invest in care supports the hypothesis that father-child interaction likely contributes to suppressed paternal T among fathers.”

[Sergio]

We never intentionally marry the wrong person and it speaks to your character that you still remember the good things of all of your previous relationships.

While women may drive us crazy, it would be a sorry world without them. My dad gave me some advice on my wedding day, he said, “Son, always remember that God placed women on this earth for us to love, not for us to understand.”

Hope you and yours had a wonderful Thanksgiving.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

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[JoeFromSidney]

Been married twice, widowed once. Both happy marriages. Don't despair. It can happen.