From Incel to Harvard, Neuroscientist on Gender Dysphoria and College Politics | Adam Omary EP 206

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Mikhaila Peterson

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🗓️ 23 July 2024

⏱️ 87 minutes

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In this episode, I’m joined by cognitive neuroscientist, Adam Omary. This guy is extremely smart so be prepared. We had an interesting conversation about his experience growing from an incel to Harvard graduate student, his experience learning to socialize, the Twin Study, the effects of prenatal hormones during brain development, the causes of gender dysphoria, how cortisol affects the brain, recovering from puberty blockers, and much more. Enjoy! Adam Omary is a Psychology Ph.D. student at Harvard University, where he conducts research in the Affective Neuroscience & Development Laboratory under the mentorship of Dr. Leah Somerville. He attended the University of Southern California as a QuestBridge Scholar and graduated with a B.A. in Cognitive Science and M.S. in Biostatistics. —Check Out Our Sponsors— - Order my hangover supplement, After Party on https://bit.ly/3VJ0UnD and Amazon https://a.co/d/6OGdTrT. Be sure to leave a review! - Air Oasis’ iAdaptAir Purifier at https://www.airoasis.com/pages/mp code MP for 10% off —Visit Adam’s Links— Website: https://adamomary.com Substack: https://naturednurture.substack.com YouTube: https://youtube.com/c/thenaturenurturepodcast —Follow Me— All Platforms: https://linktr.ee/mikhailapeterson Instagram: https://instagram.com/mikhailapeterson TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@mikhailapeterson Website: https://mikhailapeterson.com Lion Diet: https://liondiet.com Biotoxin: https://biotoxin.com Facebook: https://facebook.com/mikhailapetersonpodcast X: https://twitter.com/MikhailaFuller Telegram: https://t.me/mikhailapeterson —Chapters— [0:00] Intro [1:15] What is the Twin Study? [9:36] Correlation between gender identity and sexual orientation [14:57] Prenatal hormones during brain development [23:22] Why Adam studied gender dysphoria [26:37] What does cortisol/high-level of stress do to the brain? [30:30] SSRIs during brain development [36:30] Adam’s background and childhood [40:51] How catfishing and red pill helped social development [47:10] Measuring brain activity for accurate hormone levels [51:05] Dopamine release levels between men and women [57:18] Adam’s Harvard experience [1:02:02] How has AI impacted universities? [1:03:01] Adam’s faith and spirituality journey [1:11:57] Can adolescents recover from puberty blockers? [1:20:44] Gender dysphoria and social influence

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0:00.0	How did I actually get to researching hormones and brain development and end up with this as a research focus?
0:05.4	I didn't have friends, I was shy, I was homeschooled for two years in high school,
0:09.8	but that was only after being bullied a lot.
0:12.6	Even something like eye contact the way I'm looking at you now,
0:15.2	I used to be really afraid of that.
0:16.7	I really only socialized and found joy on online video games.
0:22.4	Online video games, It's mostly males. The few girls that you'll see
0:26.8	there they get tons of attention. I learned at a pretty early age I can do that. I'd even
0:31.9	catfish and like pretend to be someone's
0:34.4	girlfriend. Your dad's Bible series resonated a lot with me. He really talks about the depths
0:40.9	of those negative experiences. The fundamental question for a the
0:43.0	fundamental question for transgender identity
0:46.0	is it more similar to sexual orientation
0:50.0	born this way or is it more similar
0:52.0	to anorexia social contagion? I think the answer is
0:55.5	both for different people. That's the oversimplification. The nuance here is that that.
1:07.0	Adam O'Mari, welcome to my podcast. Thank you, Michaela.
1:08.0	Yeah, thank you, Michaela.
1:09.0	Great.
1:10.0	Well, I'm really excited for this.
1:11.0	This is going to be interesting.
1:13.3	But I think we should jump right in.
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