Dr Ginny Mansberg

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The Little Things · How to live longer without overhauling your life · 17 Jul 2026 podcast

obesity, why obesity is so bad for you, why muscle is so good for you.

That's right, because a lot of the conditions that we think about, like let's say stroke, dementia and heart attack, which are our top three, and women are absolutely terrified of breast cancer, but it's not even in the top three cancer killers of women.

Like it's, you know, it's number one is lung cancer, number two, sorry, it's the third cancer killer of women.

So number one is lung, number two is bowel, and then comes breast cancer.

It's very interesting.

But those autoimmune conditions can be fatal, right?

And they are much more prevalent in women.

We still don't know why, but there is definitely ways in which the immune system work differently in women.

And understanding that and understanding what's going on in your joints, in your skin, in your hair, even in your guts, in different parts of your body that matter.

are manifestations of different forms of autoimmune disease and the fact that they tend to cluster.

If I find out that you've got an autoimmune thyroid condition, like a Hashimoto's thyroiditis, it's going to impact so many women.

Up to one in six women in New Zealand will actually have a Hashimoto's thyroiditis.

I'm going to now be on high alert for other forms of autoimmune disease because they tend to cluster.

I will have a lower threshold for testing you for things like lupus and rheumatoid arthritis.

and other autoimmune gut diseases, because they do tend to cluster together, and we don't know why.

And we still don't have a diagnosis for that.

But meanwhile, you've now lost strength in your hands and yet grip strength is such a proxy for longevity.

And what we don't know is if you now, Lou, go and take a squeeze ball, you see a hand therapist, you say, I want my grip strength back.

I'm going to start, you know, really opening all the jars at home and really working out my hands.

We don't know whether that improves your longevity.

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