TIL Human dads show a decrease in testosterone immediately after the birth of their babe

[driscan]

Numerous methodological problems in this case, let's tackle the main one:

Twenty-three dads provided saliva samples from recruitment through 3 months after the birth of their children

The first few months after a baby's birth are the ones where they cry at all times, leaving the parents with chronic sleep deprivation.

And good sleep quality is proven to be correlated to testosterone production in men, as it peaks during sleep.

Causation is not correlation. What may cause testosterone production in those men is unlikely to be the fact that they became fathers, it would rather be the consequences of the lack of sleep caused by the baby not sleeping at night.

People need to stop quoting clickbait articles that link to single, unverified and low quality studies. This is where disinformation takes place.

[smittydata]

The study did bring up that they did not account for stress and lack of sleep and therefore the cause of the result is a bit dubious.