{"id":256860,"date":"2020-07-26T09:25:18","date_gmt":"2020-07-26T16:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=256860"},"modified":"2022-12-26T13:55:51","modified_gmt":"2022-12-26T18:55:51","slug":"in-praise-of-testosterone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/26\/in-praise-of-testosterone\/","title":{"rendered":"In Praise of Testosterone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No no no\u00e2\u20ac\u201d having more testosterone doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t make you into some psychopath. In fact, having more testosterone will make you MORE tolerant, MORE open minded and more socially-just (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC5068300\/pdf\/pnas.201608085.pdf\">PDF STUDY<\/a>). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Why is testosterone seen as evil?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My theory:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Testosterone is seen as evil because there is a spurious link between male violent aggression and crime, and crime is bad for society. Thus for a better functioning society, all aggression must be stamped out.  <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But what if there is a link between anxiety and depression and testosterone? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC3946856\/pdf\/nihms537267.pdf\">This study<\/a> identifies a connection &#8230; and my theory is this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you have more testosterone, you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re less likely to feel depressed or anxious.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I believe both women and male will benefit for having <a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/19\/how-to-increase-your-testosterone\/\">more testosterone<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No no no\u00e2\u20ac\u201d having more testosterone doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t make you into some psychopath. In fact, having more testosterone will make you MORE tolerant, MORE open minded and more socially-just (PDF STUDY).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_ek_photo_artist_note":"","_ek_photo_thesis":"","_ek_photo_camera":"","_ek_photo_place":"","_ek_photo_human_moment":"","_ek_photo_sequence":"","_ek_photo_question":"","_ek_photo_canonical_claim":"","_ek_photo_ai_summary":"","_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-256860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256860"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":461548,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256860\/revisions\/461548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}