Carole Hooven - The Incredible Impacts Of Testosterone

ManTalks Podcast

Connor Beaton

Relationships, Mental Health, Education, Society & Culture, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 591 Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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This. Was. Awesome. Want to better understand how testosterone affects everything from psychology, physicality, and even your neural circuitry? Put this in your ears like, now, and empower your knowledge. Evolutionary biologist Carole Hooven is my honored guest this week, and we dive deep into the science and stories in her incredibly well-researched book T: The Story of the Hormone that Dominates and Divides Us. Carole Hooven, PhD, is lecturer and co-director of undergraduate studies in the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University. She earned her PhD at Harvard, studying sex differences and testosterone, and has taught there ever since. Hooven has received numerous teaching awards, and her popular Hormones and Behavior class was named one of the Harvard Crimson’s “top ten tried and true.” Connect with Carole: -Website: https://heb.fas.harvard.edu/people/carole-hooven -Book: https://amzn.to/3BkjaY8 -Twitter: https://twitter.com/hoovlet Did you enjoy the podcast? If so, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, or Podchaser. It helps us get into the ears of new listeners, expand the ManTalks Community, and help others find the self-leadership they’re looking for. Are you looking to find purpose, navigate transition, or fix your relationships, all with a powerful group of men from around the world? Check out The Alliance and join me today. Check out our Facebook Page or the Men's community. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify For more episodes visit us at ManTalks.com | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter Editing & Mixing by: Aaron The Tech See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Whatever a society's version of gender is, obviously all males don't fit the masculine paradigm and all females don't fit the feminine one.
0:18.9	Who on earth thinks that? No serious scientist ever said genes,
0:23.2	hormones, or genitalia alone explain differences in complex behavior. As we saw with aggression,
0:30.9	culture is undeniably an important factor, and the same goes for sex. Testosterone, however,
0:37.0	changes everything. It changes the way genes are
0:40.0	expressed on every chromosome. Proteins from thousands of genes are produced in systematically
0:45.6	different patterns and qualities in men compared to women. These proteins go on to affect the body
0:52.3	and the brain, first in utero, again shortly after birth,
0:56.2	and then there's another explosion of changes in puberty. Testosterone affects body and behavior,
1:03.7	which in turn affects one's social environment, which in turn affects body and behavior,
1:08.7	and so on and so on until death.
1:12.2	Testosterone divides.
1:14.2	So that is a quote from the book T, the story of testosterone, the hormone that dominates and divides us.
1:22.0	Written by my guest today, Dr. Carol Hauvin, who is a PhD, and is a lecturer and co-director of undergraduate studies in the
1:30.3	Department of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University. She earned her PhD at Harvard
1:36.2	studying sex differences and testosterone and has taught there ever since. She has received
1:42.3	numerous teaching awards, and her popular hormones and behavior class
1:46.2	was named one of Harvard's Crimson's Top Ten, Tried and True.
1:51.5	So the book and the conversation, obviously, you can tell it's going to be all about
1:56.0	testosterone.
1:57.6	The book and the conversation in this podcast really uses a lot of personal stories and the latest
2:02.6	research on testosterone.
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