Dr. Alok Kanojia

And I've worked with plenty of women for whom this is overwhelming because they become their husband's therapist because their husband doesn't know how to manage their own emotions.

That's not good.

That's not healthy.

But if we're looking at outcomes...

The cortisol spike that men get after divorce is way higher.

The amount of inflammation that they experience is way higher.

I think they have an acute risk of heart attack that elevates.

So some of this is probably biology.

We're just wired differently.

Like this is also another thing that's really interesting.

The inflammatory response from a cold is greater in men than it is in women.

So like when my wife gets sick, she's able to do stuff.

But like my inflammatory response is actually like I'm out.

And there's a lot of physiological evidence for why that is.

And it may have something to do with if you sort of look at like in the animal kingdom, you know, a male lion is much more likely to fight by baboons, much more likely to get scratches and things like that.

So we need a more robust immune system.

So we want a stronger immune response.

But yeah, Takotsubo cardiomyopathy, I mean, the mortality risk of divorce for a man is way higher than a woman.

Yeah.

So I think, first of all, that was me.