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So it's individuals who were had angelic singing voices.

And I'm not sure where the last who the last documented one was, but it was actually more recent than many would probably think.

It's like within the last 100 to 200 years.

But anyways, you can listen to them on YouTube singing and some of these old audios that were recorded.

And it's, you know, a youthful, angelic singing voice that comes across as somewhat and like androgynous to some extent.

And obviously going through male puberty and being subjected to male amounts of testosterone and DHT.

Would you know like quote unquote wreck that voice because it's going to be masculinized and get like fully you know the deepening that would happen that's irreversible so the castrati were individuals that were castrated in order to prevent them literally from going through puberty adequately so they would actually grow into.

men without the full maturation that would come from androgen exposure in adolescence.

And as a result, you know, they would have a lack of adequate sexual differentiation maturation and their bones would reflect that as well via the osteoporotic outcomes they underwent.

Notably, though, their estrogen levels are in the ground.

So you saying a second ago about the estrogen.

Well, it's definitely a lower capacity to build muscle and bone, which is less resource intensive.

And you're a smaller human.

So maybe as a result, you are literally a walking human.

I don't know, like shell of a man, essentially.

So you don't require as much to sustain, but your quality of life is dramatically hindered.

So total testosterone is the number that most people are familiar with, which reflects the total production that can be detected in your sample of blood that was taken.

So floating around how much testosterone is there inclusive of the testosterone bound to binding proteins.

So just because it's in your blood though, it doesn't mean it's biologically active.

If it's bound to these binding proteins produced by the liver, it could be either, uh,