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Coconut oil comes from the copra the kernel or meat of coconuts.

It contains a high percentage of saturated fats, particularly from medium-chain triglycerides (MCTs).

Coconut oil has various applications in cooking, beauty, skin care, and health.

Along with these applications, it has been suggested that coconut oil increases testosterone levels and improves sexual function, but research on the topic is scarce.

This article discusses everything you need to know about coconut oils effect on testosterone levels in men.

Testosterone is a powerful hormone.

While both men and women produce it, men produce 20 times more than women (1).

In men, testosterone plays an important role in muscle and body hair growth, bone health, and sexual function, among other areas (2).

Testosterone levels peak in men around the age of 19 and decline by approximately 16% by age 40, on average (3).

Most of the testosterone in your blood is bound to two proteins albumin and sex hormone-binding globulin (SHBG).

SHBG is strongly bound to testosterone, making the hormone unavailable for use by your body, whereas albumin is weakly bound and can be used by your body with some effort.

The remaining testosterone, which is known as free testosterone, is not bound to proteins and can be readily used by your body.

Free testosterone and albumin-bound testosterone make up your bioavailable or usable testosterone (4).

The sum of your bioavailable and SHBG-bound testosterone make up your total testosterone.

Testosterone is the predominant male hormone that increases muscle mass, maintains bone strength, and regulates sexual function.

While testosterone levels are influenced by a number of lifestyle factors, such as diet and exercise, coconut oils effects on testosterone levels in humans remain largely unknown (5).

Still, coconut oil contains a high percentage of fat from MCTs about 54% in the form of lauric acid (42%), caprylic acid (7%), and capric acid (5%). These MCTs have been shown to affect a hormone similar to testosterone called dihydrotestosterone (DHT) (6, 7).

Your body uses an enzyme called 5-alpha reductase to convert about 5% of free testosterone to DHT (8, 9).

DHT performs many of the same functions as testosterone but is thought to contribute to male pattern hair loss (10).

Interestingly, MCTs especially lauric acid have been shown to block the enzyme that converts testosterone to dihydrotestosterone (DHT) in test-tube and animal studies (11, 12, 13).

Medications called 5-alpha reductase inhibitors, which are prescribed for the treatment of male pattern hair loss, work in the same way by blocking the 5-alpha reductase enzyme.

Still, studies in humans are needed to determine whether consuming MCTs from coconut oil helps prevent or treat male pattern hair loss, as the condition is also influenced by genetics (14).

Animal and test-tube studies have demonstrated that MCTs inhibit the enzyme that converts testosterone to DHT, a hormone linked to male pattern hair loss.

Low testosterone has been linked to erectile dysfunction (ED), the inability to get or maintain an erection (15).

The condition can be debilitating for men, cause embarrassment and low self-esteem, and lead to an unsatisfactory sex life.

The global prevalence of ED ranges from 377% and tends to become more common with age (16).

Specific foods, including coconut oil, have been suggested to increase testosterone and improve sexual function (17, 18).

Still, there is no evidence to suggest that coconut oil can directly increase testosterone or alleviate ED.

ED is common among people with diseases or conditions that affect the blood vessels, such as diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and overweight or obesity (19).

If any of these are present, you may be able to reduce or improve ED with lifestyle changes, such as engaging in regular physical activity, consuming a diet rich in fruits and vegetables, maintaining a healthy weight, and not smoking (20).

There is no evidence to suggest that coconut oil increases testosterone or alleviates ED. Exercising regularly, consuming a healthy diet, and maintaining a healthy weight are lifestyle factors that may improve ED.

Coconut oil is an oil thats extracted from the copra or meat of coconuts.

It contains a high percentage of MCTs, which animal and test-tube studies have shown can block the enzyme that converts testosterone to DHT the hormone linked to male pattern baldness.

Still, evidence that coconut oil can help treat this condition is lacking.

While coconut oil has been suggested to alleviate ED and improve sexual function by increasing testosterone, there is no research to support this theory.

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Coconut Oil and Testosterone: Is There a Connection? - Healthline

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OFFICERS from the Kingaroy Police Station managed to locate four people in possession of illicit drugs and utensils last week including marijuana, amphetamines and testosterone. A Kingaroy Police spokesman said Police executed a search warrant at a residence on Frangipani Drive on Tuesday March 3 at 7.45am.

A 25-year-old man was allegedly found in possession of marijuana, testosterone and drug utensils and was charged with possessing dangerous drug and drug utensils.

He will appear in Kingaroy Magistrates Court on March 30.

On the same day at 9.55am police also executed a search warrant at a residence on Allens Road in Wooroolin.

A woman was allegedly found in possession of amphetamine and drug utensils.

The 32-year-old Wooroolin woman was charged with possessing dangerous drug and drug utensils and is due to appear in Kingaroy Magistrates Court on April 20.

On Friday March 6 at 10.30pm police managed to locate a man in Fisher Street allegedly in possession of marijuana.

The 24-year-old Kingaroy man was charged with possessing a dangerous drug and will appear in Kingaroy Magistrates Court on March 30.

Lastly on Saturday March 7 at 8.20pm police intercepted a woman driving a Ford station wagon on Burnett Street in Kingaroy. A search of the vehicle allegedly located the woman in possession of amphetamine.

The 30-year-old Kingaroy woman will appear in Kingaroy Magistrates Court on March 30 charged with possessing a dangerous drug.

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Women have two X chromosomes (homogametic sex), while men have an X and a Y (heterogametic sex). The unguarded X hypothesis suggests that as our chromosomes age, men dont have a backup plan when their X begins to falter, having a Y leaves that X unprotected. Alternatively, there is the toxic Y hypothesis, where the Y acts as a bit of a rogue adversely altering gene expressions and mutations. A group of researchers considered the life-span across all the species where two genes created homogametic or heterogametic genders. Their data set included 229 species, 99 families, 38 orders and eight classes [1]

Across a wide range of species including us mammals, insects, reptiles, and ray-finned fish (fish whose fins are supported by a bony infrastructure), the homogametic gender on average lives 17.6% longer. As it turns out, in birds, moths, and butterflies, the male is homogametic (noted as ZZ), and the female is heterogametic (ZW). Again, the homogametic gender lives longer. So it seems that the unguarded X hypothesis contains some truth.

The second finding by the researchers suggests a limit to the effect of an unguarded X.

that when males are heterogametic sex they die 20.9% earlier than their female counterparts, but when females are the heterogametic sex, they die only 7.1% earlier than their male counterparts.

Why might that be? The researchers suggest that those lonely Ys, and for the birds, their W genes are more degraded than those lusty Xs and Zs. Or that estrogen is protective of telomere length, or that the higher mortality in males [is a] side effects of sexual selection wooing and mating takes a lot out of us. In any case, an unguarded X fails to explain everything.

While we are tossing candidate theories into the ring, might I suggest that the 13.8% higher mortality for heterogametic males than heterogametic females has to do with estrogen, testosterone, and their effect on lifestyle? Men are less risk-averse; they take more chances, and perhaps that is fueled, in part by the testosterone milieu that baths their brains. Women, and yes, I recognize the generalization, maybe a little more risk-sensitive. Women are less likely to smoke than men, less likely to be overweight (although they are more likely to be obese), men tend to drive faster and are involved in many more high-speed car accidents.

Once again, it is not a question of nature or nurture, but how much do genetics and lifestyle contribute and interact in our life-span. It seems that in reality, at least for us mammals, men are the weaker sex.

[1] A refresher, the classifications are, Domain, Kingdom, Phyla, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species

Source: The sex with the reduced sex chromosome dies earlier: a comparison across the tree of life

Biology Letters DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2019.0867

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Men - The Truly Weaker Sex - American Council on Science and Health

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The book: In the summer of 2017, white nationalists gathered in Charlottesville, Va., for The Unite the Right rally, a gathering of the so-called alt-right that would turn fatally violent, as dozens of counterprotestors were injured and one was killed in a vehicular attack by one of the neo-Nazi attendees.

Cry Havoc: Charlottesville and American Democracy Under Siege (PublicAffairs) is then- Charlottesville mayor Michael Signer 95s reflection on the rally and the governmental response to it. A lawyer and political scientist by trade, Signer reflects on the balance between supporting free speech and public order and the need for civility and understanding amid extremism.

Opening lines: What happened on the weekend of August 11-12, 2017, in Charlottesville, Virginia, was so horrific, was such a tear in the fabric of a small citys ordinary experience, that it strains ones power to describe. Hordes of white nationalists invaded the University of Virginia and then the Downtown Mall of the city, ostensibly to support the preservation of a statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee. They clashed violently with counterprotesters along the way before a neo-Nazi terrorist drove his car into a crowd of counterprotesters, killing one young woman and injuring nineteen others.

The events were cinematic, to be sure, quickly branded into the nations consciousness by a Vice News documentary that went viral. The video showed muscular, violent men chanting Jews will not replace us as they carried torches on the fabled Grounds of the university. It showed a melee near the quaint Downtown Mall, where right-wing activists, bearing handmade shields and helmets, cracked flagpoles onto left-wing counterprotesters and sent fists flying into faces. One counterprotester used a spray can as a torch; a white protester fired a handgun toward a black counterprotester (luckily, not hitting him). Others hurled newspaper boxes. Waves of neo-Nazis, wearing swastika apparel, rolled on foot into anti-racist activists wearing Black Lives Matter shirts. People fell onto concrete and blacktop, thrashing against each other. As the violence spread like wildfire, police from both the state and the city stood by impassively.

These scenes are available to anyone who types Charlottesville into Google.

But what stays in my memory were not these broad canvases of violence and suffering. It is instead individual vignettes, which I can slow down and replay in my mind, of men and women brought to anxiety and violence by extremism.

After taking an early-morning swim at the gym on Monticello Avenue, my friend Richard, an African American man in his late fifties who grew up in segregated Charlottesville, watching a militia of neo-Nazis unload from a rented tour bus. As they adjusted their shields and helmets, holding assault rifles, Richard said, they were smiling and cheerful, like they were going to a party. Fearing for his safety, he retreated quickly back into the building from which he had come.

As neo-Nazis marched with tiki torches through Thomas Jeffersons famed Lawn at the University of Virginia, around Jeffersons Rotunda, and up to a statue of Jefferson, a group of UVA students linking arms and surrounding the statue, despite the melee unleashed on them, with pepper spray, punches, and blood.

At the rally, a man hurling a punch at a young female counterprotester as he walked by, knocking her back several feet. The untrammeled testosterone, the shocking violence, the mayhem in that blatant, unashamed act of battery.

Reviews: Charlottesville, Virginia, my hometown, is now an emblem and a microcosm of the tensions and divisions roiling our nation. Mayor Michael Signer found himself in the center of a growing brushfire that culminated in the murderous Unite the Right demonstration in August 2017. Here he tells a difficult, unsparing, but often engrossing story that illuminates just how hard it can be to face our past while also finding a healing and hopeful path forward. Anne-Marie Slaughter 80, CEO, New America

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Mayor Michael Signer '95 Reflects on the Violence of Charlottesville - Princeton Alumni Weekly

The IOC has delayed its consultation on transgender athletes until after the Tokyo Olympics (KAZUHIRO NOGI/AFP/Getty)

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has announced that it will wait until after the 2020 Tokyo Olympics to deliver new guidelines on transgender athletes.

The IOC is currently working on a consultation to develop a framework for transgender athletes that will protect inclusivity, safety and fairness in sport. This will be based on data and research from the scientific and human rights sectors.

It had hoped to finish the consultation ahead of this years Olympic Games, but decided to wait in order to avoid disrupting the qualifying events.

Speaking on Wednesday, the IOCs medical and scientific director, Richard Budgett, said that changing the policy so close to the event would not be ethically or legally fair.

He said the talks have been a very difficult process, a very sensitive process, and theres no easy answer,adding: Whatever is put in place will undoubtedly upset a lot of people Somehow we have got to find a fair balance.

At least three trans women will be competing at Tokyo 2020 amongst the 11,000 cis athletes, including BMX freestyle rider Chelsea Wolfe of the United States, Brazilian volleyball player Tifanny Abreu, and weightlifter Laurel Hubbard of New Zealand.

A consensus statement published in 2015 allowed trans women to compete in female categories under a series of conditions, which included the athlete publicly declaring that their gender identity is female, with the declaration unable to be changed for a minimum of four years.

These previous guidelines set a permitted level of testosterone level in serum at below 10 nanomoles per litre for one year.

For us just to go and change the level of testosterone without getting the proper framework in place would be wrong, Budgett said.

Were talking about so few out of 11,000 athletes that actually its much better to get this right, or as right as we can, rather than rushing something out just before the games.

Around 98 per cent of women have under 2 nanomoles of testosterone, while for men the amount averages between 7.7 and 29 nanomoles. However, there are many natural variations and hormone levels change for both males and females as they age.

Intersex campaignershave noted that there isno scientific basisthat female athletes born with variations of sex characteristics have any advantage over other female athletes.

Mandatory testosterone testing has beencondemned by the UN Rights Council as an unnecessary, humiliating and harmful, and many academics questionits inclusion in sport at all.

The case of Caster Semenya, a cis female athlete with naturally high testosterone levels, has brought this issue to the fore.

The 800-meter champion from South Africa is fighting a separate case in Switzerland to challenges track and fields rules on naturally high testosterone in female runners with differences in sex development. She could get a ruling within weeks in an appeal case at the Swiss supreme court.

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Freddy McConnellPhoto: Manuel Vazquez for "Seahorse"/Promotional image

Transgender journalist Freddy McConnell is fighting the U.K. government to be listed as the father on his childs birth certificate.

McConnell whose experience with pregnancy as a transgender man was the subject of the documentary Seahorse: The Dad Who Gave Birth is now appealing a September 2019 High Court decision by the president of the courts Family Division stating that McConnell has to be listed as the mother because hes the one who gave birth to the child.

Related:NBA player Dwyane Wades transgender daughter knew she was a girl when she was 3 years old

Though McConnell began testosterone treatments in April 2013 and had a chest reshaping surgery in 2016, he stopped hormones in order to get pregnant using a sperm donor.

According to The Guardian, the laws around McConnells pregnancy created some of his current legal dilemma. The intrauterine insemination fertility treatment McConnell used to get pregnant is governed by the Human Fertilization and Embryology Act 2008, a law that defines treatments as assisting women to carry children.

Hannah Markham, the lawyer representing McConnell, said that the deciding judge incorrectly declared that mother was not a gendered term and that McConnells giving birth was the determining issue in declaring him as the childs mother. Markham said current U.K. law fails to respect the right of transgender people to be legally recognized by their gender identity.

Being misgendered on his childs birth certificate is discrimination and exacerbates his gender dysphoria, McConnell said. Furthermore, it violates both his human rights and right to privacy since a birth certificate listing him as a mother could potentially out him as transgender, inviting intrusive questions about his personal life.

McConnells case could potentially affect an untold number of other transgender parents in the U.K. who have children under similar circumstances.

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Trans man is fighting to not be called mother on his child's birth certificate - LGBTQ Nation

PHOENIX, March 6, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) The Arizona House voted 31-29 Tuesday to pass legislation ensuring that female school athletes will only compete against other femalesrather than gender-confused boys who claim to be girls.

House Bill 2706, the Save Women's Sports Act, would allowparticipants in high-school girls and college womens athletics to dispute the biological sex of an athlete they suspect of actually being male, who would then have to produce a signed doctors statement confirming that genetic testing has identified them as female, CBS 5 reported. Accusers would also be shielded from retaliation.

"Women are being displaced in their own sport. The playing field is no longer level," said Republican state Rep. Nancy Barto, the bills author.

Calling the proposed requirement cruel, opponents of the bill claim it could open up transgender students to bullying a charge Barto rejects.

"I would say they're really not looking at the true motive of the bill. It's not singling out anybody and it frankly doesn't discriminate or ban anybody from playing sports, she said, noting that biologically-male athletes could still play on either boys teams or participate in coed sports.

Last June, the Journal of Medical Ethics published a paper concluding that healthy young men (do) not lose significant muscle mass (or power) when their circulating testosterone levels were reduced to (below International Olympic Committee guidelines) for 20 weeks, and indirect effects of testosterone on factors such as bone structure, lung volume, and heart size will not be altered by hormone therapy; therefore, the advantage to transwomen (men) afforded by the (International Olympic Committee) guidelines is an intolerable unfairness.

Such findings are consistent with those of organizations like USA Powerlifting, which contends that men naturally have a larger bone structure, higher bone density, stronger connective tissue and higher muscle density than women. These traits, even with reduced levels of testosterone, do not go away. While MTF (male-to-female) may be weaker and less muscle than they once were, the biological benefits given them at birth still remain over than (sic) of a female.

Nevertheless, grouping athletes based on their claimed gender identity is increasingly common and contentious in the United States and around the world, with many female athletes objecting that they are being denied records and victories meant to denote excellence among actual females.

HB 2706 now advances to the majority-GOP Arizona Senate for consideration. Republican Gov. Doug Ducey has not yet said whether he would sign it into law.

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Bill banning boys who say theyre girls from womens sports passes Arizona House - Lifesite

The Arizona House of Representatives approved a bill on Tuesday that would prohibit transgender women and girls from playing on female school sports teams.

House Bill 2706 would require interscholastic or intramural sports teams sponsored by educational institutions to be expressly designated, based on biological sex, as male, female or mixed sex. Athletes who are not biologically female would be prohibited from playing on teams expressly designated for females.

If a students sex is disputed, that student may submit a physicians statement that indicates that students sex based on internal and external reproductive anatomy, normal endogenously produced testosterone and an analysis of the students genetic makeup.

This bill would affect public schools, community colleges, private schools that are members of interscholastic athletic associations, universities under the jurisdiction of the Arizona Board of Regents and any higher education institutions that are members of collegiate or intercollegiate athletic associations.

The bill passed by a vote of 31 to 29. It will now go to the Arizona Senate.

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