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Testosterone Expert: The Truth About DAD BOD & Why Women Find Fathers More Attractive!
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What actually happens to your brain, and how fast or slow do you age when you become a parent? Dr. Darby Saxbe reveals the surprising science of the "parental brain" and how fatherhood physically reshapes a man's mind, why dads lose grey matter, what really happens to testosterone, and why the "dad bod" might be nature's design. Dr. Darby Saxbe is a professor of psychology and a leading researcher on the neuroscience of parenthood. She is the founder and director of the NEST Lab at the University of Southern California, and is also the author of ‘Dad Br...
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You've discovered something about the brain I think is quite surprising. So we found that in fathers, the brain is actually shrinking. And I'll explain why. But also there are studies that find that both men and women who report having had more kids
have markers of a younger looking brain age. And then also typically men when they do this show about a 25% drop in testosterone. The next studies of single women have found that, you know, if you show them a series of body types, dad bod is the most popular.
And that's proven by science. So if I go out and get a dad bod, you're telling me that science says I'm gonna be more attractive.
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