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Hormones

Oral Contraceptives Lower Testosterone

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Dr. Devaki Lindsey Berkson
Feb 22, 2023
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This study was done on 68 female athletes.

Athletes ranged from intercollegiate soccer, volleyball, and softball team players, to women skaters from a team competing in an amateur roller derby league.

The researchers, from the Department of Psychology, at Emory University took saliva samples before warm-up and immediately after the completion of one or mo…

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