Violent Athletes

[DaemonSeid]

Originally Posted by cheerfulgreek

I know the Chris Benoit thread is very old, though I didn't comment on the thread, I did read some of the comments. I often wondered what caused him to go nuts. I wonder what makes a lot of the athletes violent. I'm not saying all of them, but they come off that way to me. I heard jokes about teams that lost the super bowl a couple of weeks ago. I would hear jokes like "I feel sorry for their wives tonight".

I think it's the testosterone. Doctors found that Chris Benoit's body showed injections of testosterone. I don't think hormones necessarily make athletes violent, but I do believe they cause them to seek social dominance. When I was in undergrad, I thought the football players were total assholes, and at the time I thought it was just the way they were. Now, I know what it was. I hope I'm not stepping on any toes, but I think athletes, mainly football players and wrestlers are extremely violent. I know not all of them are that way, but I think most of them are.

Cheerful...I really couldn't tell you but there are a lot of studies out there now trying to correlate HGH in humans with the activities that they partake in and how it affects their social behavior.

You can start with this link and see what you think afterwards.

http://www.webmd.com/mental-health/f...rss_psychtoday

[cheerfulgreek]

Originally Posted by DaemonSeid

Cheerful...I really couldn't tell you but there are a lot of studies out there now trying to correlate HGH in humans with the activities that they partake in and how it affects their social behavior.

You can start with this link and see what you think afterwards.

http://www.webmd.com/mental-health/f...rss_psychtoday

Thanks for the link Daemon. It's commonly assumed that testosterone (the sterotype of the male hormone) is intimately tied to violence. I personally believe the evidence is all around us. Weight lifters who overdose on anabolic steroids experience roid rage,(I'm gonna get a little graphic here) but castration, the removal of the main source of testosterone has been a sample of animal husbandry for centuries.

My question is about the nature of the relationship. If a normal guy is given a shot of testosterone, will he turn into the Hulk? And do violent guys have higher levels of testosterone than their more docile peers?

In my own opinion, I would say yes, and historically scientist would have agreed with me, but now the truth behind this has gotten a lot more complex.