Dr. Edna Lekgabe
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and then they scan them throughout pregnancy, and then they scan them postpartum.
So before pregnancy, rein intact, size, whatever size it is.
In their pregnancy, 34 weeks, it's heading down.
It's shrinking.
Yeah, the areas of the brain, it's all rewiring, right?
So there's a lot of word-finding difficulties.
I can't think fast.
I'm just like foggy.
Your brain is busy hacking away at things, changing walls.
It's like a renovation happening in there.
Everything on the outside looks the same.
No one can tell.
Could you tell when Penny was renovating inside her brain?
It happens before birth.
And the pruning, when they look at this study, it was the first study looking at this, at 35 weeks is the lowest point where the brain has shrunk down 5%, 5% of the brain.
The cortex, which is the top, like the surface of the brain,
Again, it's the social cognition.
It's the emotional regulation, the empathy, all those areas go.
And you're not losing brain cells.
Women are not becoming dumb.