So, guys, Derek, more place, more dates.com. Today we are going to be talking about the

castrati. So this is a topic I've mentioned a handful of times at this point in passing in some of my old videos

and basically how these children were essentially castrated prior to hitting puberty to preserve their angelic singing voices,

you know, historically.

And this isn't really something that goes on now, but back in the day, to support families.

You know, if they had a child that was, you know, a valuable asset to the family in terms of

their ability to sing, having them have a flood of dht

into the system and testosterone would consequently ruin their voice thus limiting their money-making

potential at least uh that was my understanding and i wanted to circle back and do a dedicated video

to it because it has a lot of interesting overlap with some of the concepts I've talked about

previously about like nuclear protocols for hair loss prevention as well as even growing as a teenager

something very interesting is not only that the castrotti did not

experience male pattern baldness, but they also grew to disproportionate height relative to their

counterparts who went through puberty normally. So basically I went to go through a couple

articles I found that are basically elaborate in better words than I can, because it knows it far more elaborately than I do, about their history, kind of why it happened, you know, what the deal is, and some images of depictions of them.

And even when you see the anatomy, like the skeleton of these guys, when you see the anatomy like the skeleton of these guys like you see

the strange kind of like morphological changes that occurred with the result of testosterone

dh t and estrogen deprivation so essentially the castrotti would operate simply via adrenal hormones for their entire lives and like from before puberty too.

So the development through puberty was kind of interesting to say the least.

So this is the first article I wanted to go into.

It's what was a castrato and what did they sound like?

So for a solid portion of musical history, castratos had a prominent role in opera's, churches

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