Posted on 10/19/2007 1:10:00 PM PDT by blam
Getting married saps your testosterone
18 October 2007
NewScientist.com news service
TESTOSTERONE gradually declines with age, right? Not for the Ariaal - subsistence pastoralists living in northern Kenya. They experience a decline in levels of the male hormone only when they get married. The finding provides a social and evolutionary explanation for the decrease in testosterone, rather than an age-related one.
Ariaal men remain single "warriors" until they are around 30, at which time they marry one or more women. Peter Gray of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and colleagues measured testosterone in 205 Ariaal men and found that those with one wife had lower levels of the hormone than unmarried men, and men with more than one wife had the lowest levels of all (Current Anthropology, DOI: 10.1086/522061). "Testosterone levels are lower among married men probably because they are investing less in mating effort," he says. Or to put it another way, they no longer have to compete for mates.
That link between mating effort and testosterone is made clearer by the fact that the Ariaal have an "aloof" marital system: apart from sex, husbands and wives have very little to do with each other, and men are minimally involved in childcare. In a separate study of 203 married Ariaal men, only three participants cited their wife or wives as a source of emotional support.
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People are getting more and more bizarre in trying to justify NOT marrying which has proven to be a healthy move and often adds more years to your life - provided it’s a good marriage.
200 people? All belonging a specific tribe in rural kenya?
Wouldn't it be cheaper to do a longitudinal study of Americans?
What’s Testosterine?
Testosterine is a sign that the language has nearly reached a meaningless uniformity where spelling will carry no etymological information and the words have only the most common meanings and real words cannot be used except in philosophy class with six or few students.
I think registering Democrat robs one of his testosterone and the housing which produces it.
If you think differently...that's your perogative, but let's take it up again in another 30 years and see.
Greg F before marriage.
Greg F after marriage.
;-)
My wife keeps mine in a bottle on the dresser.......
Then hs is finished.
First we drink their essence, then kill!
If only married women weren’t such castrating b*tches...Wait did I say that out loud?
By the by, I was joking. I think I am a much stronger man now that I am married and have a child than I was before.
So let me get this straight. These guys do not socialize with women until about age 30 when they marry. Then their Testosterone levels drop. Well hell, if I fill my car’s gas tank and then park it, it stays full. But once I take it out for a cruise, the fuel level drops. How much did we pay for this study?
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