Figure 1

The atlas

Four columns, not a hairball. Hover a node to isolate its neighborhood. Open an edge from the index below — the figure is the picture, the list is the citation. Filters are shareable query strings.

18 edges in this cut — click a curve or a row

1. MECHANISMT → StatusBasal T is not a leadership switch. The dual-hormone claim is an interaction, and the interaction is small and contested.
2. MECHANISMCortisol → LeadershipHigh cortisol is the condition under which 'high T = leader' fails. The internet quote drops this term.
3. MECHANISMT → UG rejectExogenous T changes bargaining — but not in the folk direction, and not in every lab.
4. MECHANISMEducation → HomogamyEducation sorts the rooms where people meet. Homogamy is mostly a market-design fact.
5. MECHANISMIncome → VitaminsMoney buys bottles. Reverse causation is the whole trick of the wellness-to-wealth genre.
6. MECHANISMOutdoors → 25(OH)DSun makes 25(OH)D. This is the boring, real arrow that makes D a terrible instrument for success.
7. MECHANISMSleep → TCut sleep, cut T. Small trial, right design, right direction.
8. MECHANISMSleep → CortisolSleep debt is an HPA intervention. It is also a HOMA-IR intervention.
9. MECHANISMSleep → HOMA-IRYou can buy a continuous glucose monitor or you can sleep. One of these has a trial behind it.
10. MECHANISMSleep → CognitionCut sleep, cut attention. The meta is large; the leap to 'sleep your way to a title' is not in it.
11. MECHANISMPrestige → LeadershipIf people follow you because you are worth copying, the group gets coordination without fear. That is a different hormone story.
12. MECHANISMDominance → StatusDominance is a means. Status is the end. Folklore treats them as synonyms.
13. MECHANISMUPF → HOMA-IRUPF raises intake in a ward trial. That is a food-environment effect, not a moral one, and it is not a career steroid.
14. MECHANISMNetwork → EmploymentWho you know is a hiring channel. It is also a backdoor in every supplement-and-success regression.
15. MECHANISMAlcohol → THeavy drinking is an HPG intervention. A glass of wine is not a T protocol in reverse.
16. MECHANISMAlcohol → SleepAlcohol is a sleep toxin with a sedative costume. It sits upstream of the sleep→T and sleep→cortisol arrows.
17. MECHANISMLifting → TLifting is a body-composition and insulin intervention. It is a weak basal-T intervention.
18. MECHANISMFerritin → CognitionFix a ferritin deficit and attention can move. Raise a normal ferritin and you have a supplement ad.