Andrew Huberman· PhD
The brain is telling body what hormones to make. The hormones are influencing all the tissues of the body but also telling the brain whether or not to eat more or grow more or think more, et cetera.
The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
The brain is telling body what hormones to make. The hormones are influencing all the tissues of the body but also telling the brain whether or not to eat more or grow more or think more, et cetera.
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so you mentioned that during per menopause there there are symptoms that are I guess it's are mainly reflected as shifts in mental health so is this women suddenly feeling um kind of um less uh optimistic is it like what what's the sort of um constellation of of of psychological shifts that can occur so we see uh increasing anxiety we see definitely loss of executive functioning so new onset of add type symptoms um we see of course the cognitive you know what we call brain fog and and lay terminology which is cognitive you know so they lose their words they're not able to do the calculations at work like their executive functioning ability in their jobs is huge