You're listening to Bulletproof Radio with Dave Asprey.

Today's cool fact of the day is that we've made some progress on a male birth control

pill.

They're now making, well, I'd say researchers are making a once daily capsule that suppress

reproductive hormones in men.

So according to the small study, anyway, it might work.

It's called dimethandrolone undeccoinate, undecanoid, or DMAU, which is how I would always

pronounce it from here on, which reduces levels of hormones like testosterone, necessary

for sperm production.

And during the time of the study, the 83 men who tried it didn't have problems that come

with a dramatic drop in testosterone.

Things like feeling like crap, having no zest for life, losing muscle mass, and probably

other bad things like that.

So I got to say, even though this is a new study, what a terrible, terrible idea, because

messing with your hormones to contort reproduction is like one of the worst ideas ever, especially

for women who have more dramatic hormones wings than men.

So even though we're now working on this, wouldn't it be great to have birth control for men

that would be a pill?

Yes, if it wasn't a pill that harmed other systems in the body.

So every time I hear about stuff like this, it's sort of just makes me want to poke myself

in the eyes with pencils, because let's not destroy hormones in men or women by using basically

potent steroids.

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