Isn’t it interesting to think of how slavish we are to our hormones? Hormones that mark youth and which we were all proud of carrying around in our youth! In youth we were compelled to act in ways we didn’t want to. As we get older the play of the hormones come to exert less domineering roles.
Take the case of dopomine, a hormone, a neurotransmitter. In his research, Professor Dilip Jeste of the University of California at San Diego, found lesser levels of dopamine in older brains which he found was linked to making older people less impulsive, reflective and wiser. You can read a non-academic article on this at http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1289300/With-age-really-DOES-come-wisdom-say-scientists.html
Can we generalize and say that there are some places where we get freer as we get older. Is it that the physical gets replaced by the mental?
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