#104 Feeling Hormonal

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Last week an acquaintance of mine had to endure two days of medically necessary bed rest. The official diagnosis was a badly-strained back. However, given that the injury occurred when he jumped out of a perfectly functional airplane to celebrate his forty-fifth birthday, I think a more accurate diagnosis would have been ‘Testosterone poisoning’.

For those of you who didn’t enjoy the benefit of taking Mr. Tovey’s eleventh-grade biology class, let me explain Testosterone. Testosterone is a ‘hormone’ which is a type of chemical that acts in the body the same way a bicycle messenger acts on the streets of Manhattan. Hormones race around with great urgency delivering messages that generally cause chaos and confusion. Testosterone is the king of causing confusion. It is the chemical antidote to intelligence……

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NOTES: 

• As promised in the episode, here’s a link to the actual study done by actual scientists at Cambridge University:
  http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=179624
• You can read about the Stanford/Northwestern study at:
  http://cbs5.com/education/sex.money.study.2.692567.html.
• Finally (and completely unrelated to the show) may I recommend the Dancing With Elephants podcast:
  http://www.dancingwithelephants.com/

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