• cassie 🐺@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    9 months ago

    that’s definitely part of it, but sex hormones interact with* neurotransmitters and the mental/emotional stuff tends to hit first, before any physical effects take place.

    • Norah - She/They@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      9 months ago

      I think that part of it, for me at least, was that it felt like everything shifted and all of a sudden my brain was finally running right for the first time in my life. It’s like it was already wired to run on estrogen and I was finally giving it what it needed.

    • Dewe@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      Not countering what you experienced, but sex hormones are not neurotransmitters. There may be some interactions with the neurotransmitter system but it they are not themselves.