Dr. Darby Saxbe
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Modern Wisdom · The Painful Psychological Cost Of Becoming A Dad - Darby Saxbe - #1129 · 27 Jul 2026
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But you see some health improvements in terms of less risky driving, less likely to get into fights, lower levels of substance use.
Yeah.
being more conscientious about doctor checkups.
So all of those behaviors that keep us alive and ready to provide for our offspring.
Shift, sure.
Yeah, that doesn't end well a lot of the time.
Yeah.
Yeah, and I would be terrified.
Yeah, remind me to get out of here first.
Exactly.
Biology and culture work together, as they do in so many ways in parenthood.
And yeah, I think it's really interesting the extent to which our culture is kind of in flux between different models of fatherhood.
And so, you know, are we low-T dads or high-T dads?
But there's plenty of work suggesting that, you know, in athletic competition, in other opportunities for men to raise their status, right?
you see changes in testosterone.
So testosterone, you know, I think we can talk about testosterone supplementation and what that means for men who want to be dads.
I think to me, what is adaptive about testosterone as with any other hormone is that it's responsive to context.
And we want to be flexible because we want to have a biology that sets us up to achieve our goals.
I think that's the fear.
That's the risk.
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