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Interesting points -
Edelstein and her team followed 29 expectant heterosexual couples, all expecting their first child together. They looked at four different times throughout the pregnancy, evaluating salivary testosterone, cortisol, estradiol and progesterone. They looked at the levels of those hormones at weeks 12, 20, 28 and 36.
As expected, levels of all four of the hormones increased in women. (Women's testosterone declines after birth.) Meanwhile, men showed substantial declines in levels of both testosterone and estradiol but showed no changes in levels of cortisol or progesterone.
Also, looking at babies lowers your test
Get fucked.
The changes detected, she said, "are very small," and were not enough to be considered low-testosterone.
One idea, she said, is that men with lower testosterone might be better caregivers, as they would be less aggressive.
"They would probably have to repeat this in a larger group before coming to any conclusions," he said. Also, Singer said that testing saliva is less accurate than testing blood for the hormones studied.