Of Mice and Testicles

[Revolution]

FarCenter (9,801 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

Mice That Eat Yogurt Have Larger Testicles


Their goal was to understand how a probiotic diet affects rates of obesity and its related compli­ca­tions, including cancer. But “the most entertaining aspects of all this were things we didn’t anticipate,” Erdman says.
 
First, the scientists noticed that the yogurt-eating mice were incredibly shiny. Using both traditional histology techniques and cosmetic rating scales, the researchers showed that these animals had 10 times the active follicle density of other mice, resulting in luxuriantly silky fur.
 
Then the researchers spotted some­thing particular about the males: they projected their testes outward, which endowed them with a certain “mouse swagger,” Erdman says. On measuring the males, they found that the testicles of the yogurt consumers were about 5 percent heavier than those of mice fed typical diets alone and around 15 percent heavier than those of junk-eating males.
 
More important, that masculinity pays off. In mating experiments, yogurt-eating males inseminated their partners faster and produced more offspring than control mice. Conversely, females that ate the yogurt diets gave birth to larger litters and weaned those pups with greater success. Reflecting on their unpublished results, Erdman and Alm think that the probiotic microbes in the yogurt help to make the animals leaner and healthier, which indirectly improves sexual machismo.
 

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=real-males-eat-yogurt&WT.mc_id=SA_20120514

  Who cares?

Dokkie(1,301 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

8. Good to know

I guess its time to cut down on my yogurt servings. What kind of man wants large testicles?

You and your kind should be downing truckloads of Yoplait on a daily basis.

TrogL(29,615 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

13. I'm having enough trouble sitting down as it is

  Do I even really need to say anything?

[Mr Mannn]

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[diesel driver]

TrogL(29,615 posts)

13. I'm having enough trouble sitting down as it is

They weren't talking about hemorrhoids.

[JohnnyReb]

13. I'm having enough trouble sitting down as it is...Him-roids?

[Revolution]

^ I was thinking it might be due to playing squat tag in the cucumber patch for so long, but what do I know?

[JohnnyReb]

^ I was thinking it might be due to playing squat tag in the cucumber patch for so long, but what do I know?

Knowing how the DUmmies love themselves some homosexuals....a DUmmie may have a sore butt from other activities.

[Chris_]

The article doesn't say how much yogurt the mice were fed.  What happens if you scaled it up for human consumption and found out you had to eat a gallon of yogurt every day? 

[Revolution]

Then I'd say DUmmie men better get a head start on the impending release of the new study.

[Skul]

Mousies have fursticles. 

[jukin]

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zdDfQrPi5Q[/youtube]

That was hilarious!!!!

Jammed my fingers getting an email out with that...ARGGGGgggg!

[thundley4]

More important, that masculinity pays off. In mating experiments, yogurt-eating males inseminated their partners faster and produced more offspring than control mice. Conversely, females that ate the yogurt diets gave birth to larger litters and weaned those pups with greater success.

Time to take yogurt off the list of foods allowed for food stamps.

[Mr Mannn]

More important, that masculinity pays off. In mating experiments, yogurt-eating males inseminated their partners faster and produced more offspring than control mice. Conversely, females that ate the yogurt diets gave birth to larger litters and weaned those pups with greater success.

Doesn't quite work that way in human society...we use beer for that.

[Skul]

Beer goggles.
Getting ugly women laid on a nightly basis.