Helen E. FisherPh.D. , states that “the three emotional systems lust, attraction, and attachment are somewhat disconnected in human beings...” (Fisher, 2000). I am strongly going to agree with that theory. The emotional systems of men are timed with biological reproduction abilities and driven by hormones or the lack of them hormones such as Testosterone, Vasopressin and Estrogen. Gender behavior patterns that are instilled in men such as not showing emotion such as through crying and through doing boy orientated activities challenge doing gender in the face of overriding hormones. Testosterone plays a major role in the wellbeing of men throughout their lifetime and biological changes that happen in men are often associated with conflicts
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HDL is the cholesterol that protects us against heart disease. Heart disease is a leading cause of death for men and testosterone is what does this. Testosterone over a healthy heart is what nature is choosing to do in order to further procreate, leaving women hearts protected with much higher levels of estrogen to care for the offspring.
In addition to lowering levels of HDL, testosterone negatively affects the overall lifespan of men. Some experiments with 297 castrated males at the Kansas institution for the mentally impaired showed an overall 14 year longer lifespan for castrated males than for non-castrated male inmates (Hawke 1950).
Testosterone production is high during adolescence, but during middle age it slowly declines leaving one feeling fatigued, weak, depressed, and with sleepless nights. Media tends to make todays men feel like they need testosterone therapy, the Food and Drug Administration put out a statement that men actually do not need this. Today, millions of men are using testosterone gels, fueling a nearly $2 billion market and is approved by Medicare and most insurance …show more content…
Competition for one’s territory such as for a man’s family or his paternal behavior is greatly influenced by the hormone vasopressin. It is found in prairie voles, as well as, mice that increasing the amount of vasopressin encourages the role of being parental and monogamy however, requires more testing of humans in today’s social environment. Vasopressin encourages long term social behaviors rather than immediate gratification behaviors of testosterone alone. Doing gender with vasopressin gives men a foundation rather than continually “spreading the seed” allowing them to remain somewhat emotionally attached.
Doing gender in old age means a man slows down a bit producing testosterone and has more estrogen. This is a major point in a man’s life when the once free radicals of testosterone are bind by protein leaving less free testosterone in the blood, hence slowing the man down in old age. When a man reaches middle age going into elder age he has roughly half the testosterone he used to make, this results from extreme changes in emotion even though they are gradual over
HDL is the cholesterol that protects us against heart disease. Heart disease is a leading cause of death for men and testosterone is what does this. Testosterone over a healthy heart is what nature is choosing to do in order to further procreate, leaving women hearts protected with much higher levels of estrogen to care for the offspring.
In addition to lowering levels of HDL, testosterone negatively affects the overall lifespan of men. Some experiments with 297 castrated males at the Kansas institution for the mentally impaired showed an overall 14 year longer lifespan for castrated males than for non-castrated male inmates (Hawke 1950).
Testosterone production is high during adolescence, but during middle age it slowly declines leaving one feeling fatigued, weak, depressed, and with sleepless nights. Media tends to make todays men feel like they need testosterone therapy, the Food and Drug Administration put out a statement that men actually do not need this. Today, millions of men are using testosterone gels, fueling a nearly $2 billion market and is approved by Medicare and most insurance …show more content…
Competition for one’s territory such as for a man’s family or his paternal behavior is greatly influenced by the hormone vasopressin. It is found in prairie voles, as well as, mice that increasing the amount of vasopressin encourages the role of being parental and monogamy however, requires more testing of humans in today’s social environment. Vasopressin encourages long term social behaviors rather than immediate gratification behaviors of testosterone alone. Doing gender with vasopressin gives men a foundation rather than continually “spreading the seed” allowing them to remain somewhat emotionally attached.
Doing gender in old age means a man slows down a bit producing testosterone and has more estrogen. This is a major point in a man’s life when the once free radicals of testosterone are bind by protein leaving less free testosterone in the blood, hence slowing the man down in old age. When a man reaches middle age going into elder age he has roughly half the testosterone he used to make, this results from extreme changes in emotion even though they are gradual over