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Dad bod? More like Dad brain: Here are 2 chemicals that change dad behavior - Inverse
When women become mothers, they experience profound changes to the mind and body: hormones fluctuate, brain structures shrink and expand, and they experience physical shifts. Scientists have spent decades capturing the scale and scope of these changes, but until recently, the biology of fatherhood remained relatively unexplored.
Emerging data, in humans and animals, shows becoming a father has acute and lasting health effects on men. While moms experience changes on a more drastic scale, dads also undergo meaningful transformations.
Specifically, new father's oxytocin levels often rise and testosterone dips, their brains become more attuned to parent-related stimuli, they gain weight, and they experience changes in the way they sleep, workout, work, and relax. It turns out, dad bods are real, and here's the science explaining why.
When women become mothers, they experience profound changes to the mind and body: hormones fluctuate, brain structures shrink and expand, and they experience physical shifts. Scientists have spent decades capturing the scale and scope of these changes, but until recently, the biology of fatherhood remained relatively unexplored.
Emerging data, in humans and animals, shows becoming a father has acute and lasting health effects on men. While moms experience changes on a more drastic scale, dads also undergo meaningful transformations.
Specifically, new father's oxytocin levels often rise and testosterone dips, their brains become more attuned to parent-related stimuli, they gain weight, and they experience changes in the way they sleep, workout, work, and relax. It turns out, dad bods are real, and here's the science explaining why.