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Comment on Hormones are powerful drugs. Taken by everybody. Creating massive aggresstion, obsession and mental disturbance. What would freedom from its influences look like for a society? An individual?

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cameron_vale@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

You know that hormones naturally occur in the body…

These are the hormones to which I referred in the op. I thought that was clear.

Ok, maybe “taking” wasn’t the right term but I couldn’t think of better.

I specifically refer to the big famous mind-altering ones. Testosterone. Estrogen.

The fight-fuck hormones.

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justlookingfordragon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

The fight-fuck hormones.

You seem to be under the impression that “fight and fuck” are the only things caused by sexual hormones.

There have been studies how low testosterone/estrogen levels affect overall health:

Symptoms include hot flashes, hair loss, decreased muscle mass, increased body fat, fatigue, descreasing bone mass (osteoporosis), declining cognitive functions. increased risk of anemia, low blood pressure. (Testosterone, Estrogen)

This applies to both hormones by the way. Every human body, no matter their assigned gender, produces both Testosterone and Estrogen, albeit at different levels. If you would somehow delete both T and E from your body completely, you’d end up as a depressed, overweight, brittle-boned, constantly tired person with memory issues and a messed-up sleep schedule.

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- killeronthecorner@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  OP is a troll who spouts a lot of pseudoscience and tries to sound like a caricature of an intellectual while doing so. It’s not clear whether they are doing it for the lulz or they are, in fact, dumb as a rock.
  
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  - justlookingfordragon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Aye … and they’re desperately trying to twist the original question into something that will result in the exact answers they want to hear, and that never leads to an honest, informed discussion. Logic and reason won’t work here. “Don’t feed the troll” - I’m off doing other stuff.
    
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  - cameron_vale@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    well aren’t you charming.
    
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- cameron_vale@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I said remove the mental influences of T and E. Not remove T and E completely.
  
  Because powerful uncontrolled mental influences are something that we don’t like.
  
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- cameron_vale@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Then assume that we could remove the mind-altering effects without touching the rest.
  
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