Men can also experience the symptoms of pregnancy

18.12.2014

Scientists from the University of Michigan in the US have found that many men also face the psychological symptoms of pregnancy.

Sudden changes in hormone levels in the body make future fathers less aggressive and more understanding.

As shown by studies of American Scientists, the prospect of future fatherhood significantly affect the level of two key hormones in the male body. We are talking about testosterone and estradiol levels which falls. Nature does so in order to prepare a man to father's role and make it a more severe nature of caring and understanding, as well as protect it from cheating.

Was conducted the most detailed study on this subject, in which the scientists decided to measure the level of four key hormones in the body 29 couples during pregnancy. It turned out that the figures hormones testosterone, cortisol, progesterone and estradiol, which is a form of sex hormone estrogen, decreased in women.And in the male body fell only testosterone and estradiol. The quantity of the other two hormones did not change, reported in the journal American Journal of Human Biology.

Based on: infosmi.net

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