Cognitive health
Ask most people what drives cognitive decline, and they will mention age, genetics, or lifestyle. Rarely will hormones come up. Yet some of the most consequential changes in brain health over a lifetime track almost precisely with hormonal shifts — the gradual decline of estrogen in women approaching menopause, the slow fall of testosterone in…
We live in a culture that treats cognitive decline as an inevitable rite of passage — a tax you eventually pay for the privilege of growing old. Forget where you parked your car? That’s just aging. Struggle to recall a name you’ve known for decades? Welcome to getting older. We even joke about it. But…