The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
testosterone secreted from the gonads and elsewhere in the body binds to the amygdala and changes the threshold for stress, so I've said before on previous versions of this podcast and on other podcasts that testosterone has this incredible effect of making effort feel good, but what I was really referring to is the fact that testosterone lowers stress and anxiety, in particular, in males in a given species.
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it's clearly doing something very powerful. It's shifting the way that certain neural circuits work, adjusting the gain on the amygdala, as you described, and certainly other things as well.
and what we consider scary or too much testosterone secreted from the gonads and elsewhere in the body binds to the amydala and changes the threshold for stress so I've said before on previous versions of this podcast and on other podcasts that testosterone has this incredible effect of making effort feel good but what I was really referring to is the fact that testosterone lowers Stress and Anxiety in particular in males of a given species