The Role of Hormones in Brain Injury

If people are overweight, if they're carrying to excess body fat, one of the weird quirks of biology is that the brain doesn't track testosterone via testosterone, it tracks it via estrogen. And then you throw in a really highly processed diet, pro inflammatory diet. I think that these seals are kind of a case study in everything that's going on wrong within society at large. There are opportunities for traumatic brain injury and a whole host of different circumstances. Poor diet, really altered circadian biology. Those are all kind of beginning pieces.

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