I've been doing some posts recently about how, you know, people are, there's good,

there are good data of how people's sense of dip sweat from different people can impact

notions of, you know, attractiveness.

There's a whole literature on that.

There's a whole literature on how the smell of women's sweat can cause testosterone increases in men.

If women are taking oral contraception, then that effect tends to be blunted a little bit,

this kind of thing.

I mean, there's tons of literature in humans on this stuff.

And, you know, hormones are powerful.

I mean, I don't need to tell you that.

You're well aware.

But I think as people start to wade into the thinking about this, I just think these are not,

these are major compounds of our health and well-being, but they also can be major

compounds of our distress and sickness-being, but they also can be major compounds of our distress and

sickness. So it's something to approach with a lot of caution.

The mention of like combined oral contraceptives and the effect that has, like I've seen pretty

significant detriment to total and free testosterone levels in women who are on them using

synthetic progestins in concurrence with ethanol estradiol as a like hyper aggressive estrogen

receptor agonist to basically, you know, castrate them essentially is what it's doing.

That effect on their psychology and whatnot and the effect it even has on

like the preference of partners, it seems pretty glaring in the literature. What is like for me,

I've always told like there's a lot of girls who use combined oral contraceptive still and I've

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