Pediatric obesity was associated with higher adult felony-conviction prevalence.
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Obesity in men lowers testosterone levels and thereby reduces criminal perpetration rates.
TOTAL BS
Topic
testosterone
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Obesity lowers male testosterone but does not demonstrably reduce violence.
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Obesity makes men less violent because it lowers testosterone levels.
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Thermal stress generally suppresses testosterone and impairs male reproductive physiology.
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In males living in the Kalahari environment, elevated circulating testosterone indicates that a sexual-selection-related physiological axis remains active in the population despite thermal stressors.
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Higher body fat in men is more consistently linked to lower testosterone.
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In men, having too little body fat causes androgen levels to decrease.
MOSTLY BS
Low testosterone is linked to higher fat mass and reduced lean mass.
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Low testosterone levels can be a cause of underweight in people of any sex.
TOTAL BS
Testosterone deficiency can increase visceral fat and contribute to obesity.
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Low testosterone levels can cause obesity in men.
HARDLY BS
Thermal stress can raise cortisol and suppress testosterone, especially chronically.
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Under thermal stress, elevated cortisol can reduce testosterone levels, affecting sexually dimorphic traits.
HARDLY BS
Testosterone often mediates male-typical sexually selected traits, but other hormones also drive dimorphism across taxa.
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Testosterone is the principal endocrine mechanism by which sexual selection translates into morphological sexual dimorphism.
SOME BS
Excess sugar intake can lower testosterone, and reducing it may help some men.
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Sugar deficiency increases testosterone levels in men.
TOTAL BS
Sugar intake is associated with short-term testosterone drops and lower levels.
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Reducing dietary intake of added sugar increases testosterone levels in men.
MOSTLY BS
Testosterone peaks in many men in the morning, but aggression doesn’t.
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In men, testosterone secretion is highest in the morning, making male aggression highest in the morning.
MOSTLY BS
Meta-analyses find combat sports testosterone responses similar to other sports.
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Practicing combat sports has a stronger effect on maintaining or increasing testosterone levels compared to most other sports.
TOTAL BS
Male libido is multifactorial, often driven by psychological, medical, and lifestyle factors.
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Low testosterone is the primary cause of low libido in men.
MOSTLY BS
Zinc supplements raise testosterone mainly in men with zinc deficiency.
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Zinc supplementation increases testosterone levels and improves sexual performance in men.
MOSTLY BS
Human studies show no positive link between blood cholesterol and testosterone levels.
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Higher cholesterol levels in the body lead to higher testosterone production.
TOTAL BS
Peer-reviewed studies show cold-water immersion blunts or reduces men’s testosterone.
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Cold plunges increase testosterone levels in men.
TOTAL BS