Aside to Dapper - because hormones change things in your brain and body. Your brain *is* part of your body and part of your endocrine system. So when you take hormones, it will change your brain function.
I've taken hormones for 12 years now. It's changed me mentally and physically.
Hormones control *everything* in our bodies and minds.
This is an incredible and fabulous BBC story about the action and history of hormones by a professor of endocrinology and wonderful storyteller - this is NOT a "boring ol documentary"
It's a beautifully done woven story of history and biology by someone passionate and a crew who love delivering knowledge to general public folk.
This IS NOT a "don't take hormones" post. This is a "why hormones change you so much" post. I only got to study the endocrine system for 3 months, which is nothing, it's the most fucking confusing system in the body and it governs everything. If you think the nervous system is confusing, it has nothing on our hormones.
I'm deeply grateful for the hormones I take. I'd be in agonising chronic pain, unable to work. But they have changed my personality, how I see things, how I react, because that's just hormones. They affect the brain because the brain is part of your body. Personally, I think it changed me for the better.
Anyway, here's the link - please do watch it, it's amazing.
Fantastical World of Hormones
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rsjva0z0-8k