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Stuff You Should Know

Testosterone and Estrogen: Wondrous Hormones

Apr 11, 2024
48:55
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Exploring the nuanced history of hormone research, challenges gender categorization, delves into complexities of estrogen and testosterone, unveils the hormonal dance in development, discusses masculinity and behavior linked to testosterone, and explores benefits of testosterone therapy and historical yellow paint standardization.
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Quick takeaways

  • Estrogen and testosterone play crucial roles in various bodily functions beyond sex determination.
  • Historical experiments have shaped misconceptions about the roles of estrogen and testosterone in gender identity.

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Testosterone and Estrogen Misconceptions

The podcast challenges the common misconception that testosterone is strictly a male hormone and estrogen is solely a female hormone. By delving into historical scientific experiments with animals, the podcast reveals the complexity of hormone research and highlights that the binary division of sexes based on these hormones is overly simplistic.

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