• Question: why dose our voice get deeper as we get older

    Asked by georgeporge123 to Carolyn, Peter, Richard, Sara, Siana on 18 Nov 2015.
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      Richard Unwin answered on 18 Nov 2015:

      Hey Georgeproge,

      In men, the voice gets deeper due the release of a hormone called testosterone. One of its effects are that it thickens the vocal chords, so our voice becomes deeper (look a guitar and compare the note of the tick sting to the thinnest one to get some idea). This doesn’t happen in women, as they don’t make as much testosterone.

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