Dr. Mary Claire Haver

And so someone's post-menopausal, does their exercise recommendations change at all?

Is it the same exercises though?

You know, the three days a week, the mobility, the strength.

To your point, Wanda, I am just been writing my book in Cape Town, as I told you before we started recording.

And one of the studies that I read about while I was writing the book was a study done by a guy called Hal Hirschfeld and his colleagues, where they put people in these MRI scanners and they asked them to think about a famous celebrity.

And then they asked them to think about themselves today.

And then they asked them to think about themselves in 10 years' time.

And in 10 years' time, the same brain regions lit up as if they were thinking about the celebrity.

which kind of led them to conclude that in our brain we almost see our future selves as a bit of a stranger yes that's right and so when we think about long-term planning this is in part why a lot of this advice is often most effective when it's put in the context of like short-term performance or cognitive benefits because we really do struggle to like care about ourselves at 90 yeah and we i think we all kind of think we can just figure it out later and

And women are significantly more likely than men to develop dementia and Alzheimer's, largely because they have certain unique biological risk factors and also because they live longer.

Right.

Better or worse?

Worse.

Oh, so, okay.

More resilient.

To dementia.

But they're also going to have more stress.

Are they not going to have more stress if they're working more hours?

Yeah, because I'm right in thinking that women are still both caregiver and now in the corporate world.

So it's both.