• AItoothbrush@lemmy.zip
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    20 days ago

    Btw is this real? I thought there was no conclusive data on testosterone and inteligence being related. Most sources say that its the change which matters(meaning that if you start taking it) and not the baseline except in the extremes.

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    18 days ago

    Hypothesis A:

    • his name is J. Random Error

    Hypothesis B:

    • he’s real, has a brain anomaly, and is taking androgen antagonists (e.g. 5-alpha-reductase inhibitors) for breakfast, lunch and dinner. It’s not testosterone which has most biological effect, but dihydrotestosterone. T is just the guidance signal from the brain. DHT does the heavy lifting in tissue. If you don’t want to operate on the brain, you can block the result and leave the guidance signal going wrong.
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    18 days ago

    So, because women have a much lower content of Testosterone, we can conclude that there are much more stupid than men or what does this silly correlation wants to tell us???

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      18 days ago

      women have a much lower content of Testosterone, we can conclude that there are much more stupid than men

      This poster is High T. Ask me how I can tell.

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        18 days ago

        Understand the meaning of question marks, you do not? Much to learn, little Padawan, you still have.

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      20 days ago

      Nah the transmascs and trans men know better. When your T is that high, your body converts some of the extra into estrogen via aromatization.

      • ℛ𝒶𝓋ℯ𝓃@pawb.social
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        20 days ago

        Oh, fair. Didn’t know that, just knew for transfem a higher estrogen level than cis can be normal (especially monotherapy).