A 2% decline in brain function cascades through your body. Your brain controls hormones, digestion, temperature, blood sugar, and emotions. Even small drops in performance gradually degrade these systems and accelerate aging over years.
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You know, so you have a 2% degradation in function. And that doesn't necessarily mean that shows up in cognition. We always think of the brain as our thinking, but our brain runs everything. So it's running our hormone system, it's running our digestion, our temperature regulation, our blood sugar. It is running also all of our thinking and emoting. And so it's got its finger in everything. And so if that's off a little bit, then we can see a degradation in performance over time. And again, performance isn't just cognitive performance. If one's hormones are off just a little bit over years, that can have a serious impact on how we age, on our— on longevity, but not just longevity, the quality of those years, the likelihood that we develop a medical condition that we might not otherwise because the system isn't running as good as it should be. So