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Side Effects: Salt, Steroids, and Second Brains

So get this: sodium may track with memory decline (in men), steroids might not be “immunosuppressive” in the ICU, and second pregnancies reshape the brain differently than first. Same theme: biology is less binary than we teach it.

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  • Kerri Miller

  • April 22, 2026

  • 7 min

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Side Effects: Salt, Steroids, and Second Brains

  • by Kerri Miller

  • April 22, 2026

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