Dr. Louise Newson

And you need those really healthy neurons.

And they can improve the transmission of those sort of signals, if you like, from one urine to another.

They can help the speed of the transmissions and also just the way that our brain repairs itself.

We want our brains are constantly rewiring and regenerating.

And we know about muscle memory and memory.

In our brain, you know, that whole thing we all know we need to do lots of Sudoku and crosswords and whatever to keep our brain functioning well.

And it's a bit like a tree.

Every so often it gets really messy and the branches are sort of in a bit of a mess and you have to prune them back.

and then they grow better.

And so the nerves have something called a nerve, it's like a growth factor for the nerves.

And guess what stimulates those growth factors?

Of course, our hormones.

So our hormones are very good for this dendritic pruning, if you like.

And again, that's so important, this rewiring, this remodeling, reducing inflammation in our brain, helping those nervous pathways to work really well.

And I've spent a lot of time writing about that because there's always this confusion.

And I know you've mentioned it on the podcast before about dementia.

Does HRT reduce or worsen dementia risk?

And everyone's really confused.

So in my mind, if I'm confused, I go back to basics.

So again, if you learn how these hormones work within our brain,