Peter Attia, M.D.

Third, infant mortality and maternal mortality rates have plummeted.

So the success of your offspring skyrockets.

And basically, all of the other reasons that we used to need to be hyper-aggressive with each other to compete for mates, again, food and all those other things, have largely dwindled.

But that's a fire that's been burning for millennia.

So we have to channel into something else.

And so in many cases, in the most polished corridors of society, we've channeled that into professional excellence or things that would have been totally unnecessary and superfluous hundreds of years ago.

Nobody thought of discovering jeans or trying to be the leading scorer in the pick your favorite sport.

And so it's been an easier or maybe more logical transition of aggression from evolutionary needs into gratuitous needs, making more money, being more successful, being more famous, being more respected in some way.

And the maternal need of caring for the offspring hasn't, as it's coming out of my mouth, I'm sure I'm just butchering this, but

It hasn't evolved as much in the sense away from its original goal, which was making sure the offspring were perfectly protected.

So there's an asymmetry in this evolution of evolution.

Do you agree with that?

And now paternal attention can be given much more to kids.

Sorry, in the father or in the child?

If you're a man out there listening with low T, ignore your kids.

If your T is low, you should ignore your kids to raise your T. Is that the implication?

Do we know that there's causality here?

I mean, this is a pretty bold statement.

By what magnitude are we talking about here?

Because it would make us go out and look for other mates when we don't need to?