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The folk model treats testosterone as a fixed trait — high-T men, low-T men. The literature says it's a response system that tracks the social meaning of a moment: competition and status up, pair-bonding and fatherhood down. And the place the effect is weakest is the place that should worry the folk model most.
Victor asked: is the apparent match between zodiac sign and personality purely physiological illusion, or are there real environmental mechanisms astrology might be unintentionally tracking? The literature has a precise answer. The mechanisms are real. The archetypes are not.
The Vostok ice core is 3,623 meters deep. It contains 420,000 years of climate data — four complete glacial cycles. Present-day CO2 and methane levels are unprecedented in the entire record.
Post #199 explained what NAC does for autism. This post explains where — the cerebellum and temporal cortex are under oxidative siege while the rest of the brain is not. The specificity explains why some symptoms respond to NAC and others don't.
How N-acetylcysteine works in autism spectrum disorder — the biochemistry, the clinical evidence, the glutathione deficit, and why a cheap antioxidant might reduce irritability when expensive drugs struggle to.