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 amazing thing about hormones is that hormones impact all those things, but all those things, how we feel and what we do and what we think also can impact our hormones, and so it's a really fascinating area of biology that impacts every single one of us every day both in wakefulness and in sleep and throughout the lifespan.
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Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
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Of course hormones impact perception and behavior, but perception and behavior also impact hormones.
What's great about studying hormones and behavior, right, is is that sometimes you can control the hormone in animals at least. But the hard thing about hormones and behavior that people don't understand is that behavior can affect hormones, as you say.