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...wrong. In the beginning God created Eve," says Johns Hopkins Medical Psychologist John Money. What he means is that the basic tendency of the human fetus is to develop as a female. If the genes order the gonads to become testicles and put out the male hormone androgen, the embryo will turn into a boy; otherwise it becomes a girl. "You have to add something to get a male," Money notes. "Nature's first intention is to create a female...
...definitive research on hormones and aggression is still to be done. However, it has been established that the female hormone estrogen inhibits aggression in both animal and human males. It has also been proved that the male hormone androgen influences aggression in animals. For example, castration produces tractable steers rather than fierce bulls...
...influence of androgen begins even before birth. Administered to pregnant primates, the hormone makes newborn females play more aggressively than ordinary females. Moreover, such masculinized animals are unusually aggressive as long as they live, even if they are never again exposed to androgen...
...have a proper hormone balance, the body burns up its own protein. We lose carbohydrates, fat and minerals as well. Even brain tissue is absorbed. We found that old people suffered this loss even if they were eating properly. Then we found out why-they lacked androgens and estrogens. Without a proper androgen-estrogen balance, proteins are spilled over and lost...
Hormone massage, concluded Dr. Foss in The Lancet last week, "is the simplest method of androgen [male hormone] therapy . . . is most acceptable to the patient who desires a maintenance dosage...