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And then if you are occupying...

all of your androgens because you know essentially the shbg is going to with a much higher binding affinity mop up all your dht and testosterone not all of it but like a significant amount of it if it's high in any like higher than it should be

Like it will impact your like free androgenic signaling so significantly that might put you into like the, you know, female hypogonadal equivalent territory essentially.

So you could be like, it's not uncommon for girls to walk around borderline asexual or like literally no drive throughout their entire adolescence, 20s, 30s and think it's normal.

And it's just not what they're supposed to be walking around like.

Bone integrity.

So that sounds like a bit lesser.

So depending on if they're on like, obviously, you know, if you're on a combined role contraceptive pill that has estrogen in it, you know, however much it does that to what dose, you know, you get into the nuance.

But ultimately, like you're inhibiting natural hormone production quite dramatically.

through a myriad of means, like think about guys who are just like natural having to deal with what they deal with as is, the sleep impact, the cortisol impacts, the fat impact of being obese.

And then if you have women who deal with all those same problems, you're gonna have all the suppressive results of all of those lifestyle things, the diet, the nutrition, the whatever,

And then you also factor in medications on top of that, too, that maybe men don't typically have to take to, you know, achieve contraception.

Like, you know, that's typically often I think the final blow that will like push women into like, you know, closer to low drive territory often and almost certainly lower quality of life for a lot of them.

now that's not to say because i think this gets misconstrued often is it's not to say don't use contraceptives at all like there are absolutely better ways to go about it i'm just giving examples that i see as commonplace

It does get tough because as you would imagine, a lot of the lifestyle related things that lead to low testosterone will come with the decrement to quality of life just via, you know, if you have poor sleep, like you're not going to feel great because you didn't rest enough.

And then you add that on top of the inhibition of stress.

you know, your output of gonadotropins, pituitary hormones, and response to them as well.

Like it's like a one-two punch off in a lot of this stuff.

So in general, I would look to things like libido, erection quality.

Obviously that's more, you know, circulatory often, but still notable nonetheless.