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The dad bod is not inevitable, even if evolution helped make it happen
In a study Gettler and colleagues conducted in the Philippines, “we found that new dads with newborns have very substantial drops in their testosterone on average, which could reflect changes during pregnancy or immediately in the period after their babies …