Higher Testosterone Allows Men to Act on What They Believe is Right, Rather than What They Believe Others Think is Right! By Mrs Vera West

The lead title summarises the political implications of the decline of testosterone in men, especially Western men. This has been well documented, along with the radical drop in sperm quality and quantity, which has been thought, if it continues on the present trajectory, to be an existential threat by 2045. I have covered this issue last year. What is interesting isa paper cited by Elon Musk:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41386-023-01570-y

"Testosterone eliminates strategic prosocial behavior through impacting choice consistency in healthy males," has shown that

Neuropsychopharmacology volume 48, pages1541–1550 (2023).

Bringing male testosterone levels back to what they should, increased their independence of thought and reduced tendencies for conforming to the "herd" mentality. That is the simple version; the abstract is below. It suggests one strategy for political awakening, to get men back into being men, rather than mice.

How might this be done? While medical intervention may be needed in many cases, with many young men having T-levels equal to 80-year-old men of past generations, encouraging young males to stop drinking beer (full of oestrogenic chemicals, sorry!), stop taking recreational drugs, reduce computer time, lose weight, eat healthy, and engage in manly physical activities, such as sport and weight lifting, is a good start. Political and economic change may well begin by personal transformation.

Abstract

Humans are strategically more prosocial when their actions are being watched by others than when they act alone. Using a psychopharmacogenetic approach, we investigated the endocrinological and computational mechanisms of such audience-driven prosociality. One hundred and ninety-two male participants received either a single dose of testosterone (150 mg) or a placebo and performed a prosocial and self-benefitting reinforcement learning task. Crucially, the task was performed either in private or when being watched. Rival theories suggest that the hormone might either diminish or strengthen audience-dependent prosociality. We show that exogenous testosterone fully eliminated strategic, i.e., feigned, prosociality and thus decreased submission to audience expectations. We next performed reinforcement-learning drift-diffusion computational modeling to elucidate which latent aspects of decision-making testosterone acted on. The modeling revealed that testosterone compared to placebo did not deteriorate reinforcement learning per se. Rather, when being watched, the hormone altered the degree to which the learned information on choice value translated to action selection. Taken together, our study provides novel evidence of testosterone's effects on implicit reward processing, through which it counteracts conformity and deceptive reputation strategies."