Hormones are deeply important for brain function.

“during neural development which is where I started off which was um neural embryonic development the hormones exert you know these widespread roles in defining even which neurons will Express certain neurotransmitters and then somehow the field of Neuroscience is only recently gotten on board the idea that um this intimate relationship between hormones and neurotransmitters is something to consider in essentially every aspect of of brain health right not just cognition but maintenance of neurons and um offsetting neurod degeneration and so on”