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The Negative Effects of Testosterone on Performance
Testosterone is damaging. We're selecting for aggressive, strong men playing the NBA and these men likely have higher testosterone levels. As a consequence, at some point, that starts breaking things down in our bodies and has that negative effect where we just start senescing. Men don't have as much testosterone as a consequence. Maybe things aren't breaking down as quickly or as strongly for women. So we don't see that happening in female performance over time.