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> And the men that had spent longer looking after babies showed the largest drops in testosterone. Those that shared a bed with their infants also had lower lev
by syntaxing 6mo ago
> And the men that had spent longer looking after babies showed the largest drops in testosterone. Those that shared a bed with their infants also had lower levels.
Dad here. Maybe…it’s the lack of sleep? Involved fathers tend to have less sleep.
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- bitshiftfaced 6mo agoParents also tend to gain weight, and higher BMI is associated with a decline in T. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3809034/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3809034/
- kyleee 6mo agoDo BBC have low T?
- benhurmarcel 6mo agoYes being a parent would tend to correlate to a drop in physical activities and sports
- verteu 6mo agoSeveral of the studies described changes in hormones before the child was born.
- IncreasePosts 6mo agoIf you cosleep with your 8 month pregnant wife she might not be sleeping well and by proximity you may not be sleeping well.
- davorak 6mo agoExtra time commitment, and therefor missing some sleep, can start before the baby is born.
- ludicrousdispla 6mo agoReminds me of when I would stay up late ironing my wife's maternity BDUs.
- herewulf 6mo agoWith or without starch? Please tell me you were taking care of boots as well!
- ludicrousdispla 6mo agoI don't recall using starch on the BDUs, I might have polished the boots once or twice, but that was just over twenty years ago, so who knows.
- mbac32768 6mo agoGiven this is "BBC Future" let me guess, barely above significance and n=16?
- goku12 6mo agoI'm unfamiliar with the subject. What's the problem with BBC Future?
- mbac32768 6mo agoYes, chronically disturbed sleep is the obvious confounder and is well known to drop T and explains the observed small changes a lot better.
- _DeadFred_ 6mo agoIf human babies actually evolved to be the terrors they are in order to lower fathers testosterone levels/chill them out that would be wild.
- e40 6mo agoEvolutionarily this makes sense. Lower testosterone means less carousing, and better fatherhood.
- valianteffort 6mo ago[dead]
- joemazerino 6mo agoOn the right line. Lower sleep, higher coping (bad diet, alcohol etc) would lead to T destruction. Not surprised BBC didn't connect the dots here.
- Henchman21 6mo agoOr, just gonna put this out there... you have successfully fathered a child. A drop-off in T seems normal -- you've done your job and now you care for that child and lose the drive to father a significant number more. You accomplished your biological purpose and slowly slide on into death over the next number of decades. So it is. We are not immortals and the phases of life should not be avoided out of selfish vanity. Easy to say online, eh? :)