Dr Natalie Crawford

Exactly, safely with good form.

And so I could nail 20.

And so then they took them down to about 70, 80% of that, which for me was about 15, 16 pounds.

So that you can usually do about five reps before you hit failure.

And that is what they consider lifting heavy.

And that seemed to really resonate with my followers to understand what that meant.

I think what's different for women, especially in menopause, is because we're also taking care of our parents in so many ways.

We're in this like raising kids, going through our own hormonal upheaval, and then watching our mothers, our grandmothers, our aunts age.

And the way society is set up, women become the caretakers of their parents, generally the oldest daughter.

Right.

And I have to give full credit to my sister who lives in the same town as my mom and as a nurse.

So she really is bearing the brunt of taking care of mama because I'm living this life.

So thank you, Leah, if you're watching.

It is such a tremendous stress, you know.

And so our motivation, my sister and I, is like, we don't want to do this to our daughters.

When you look at glucose metabolism in the brain, I'm talking specifically coming out of Arizona and from Lisa Moscone's work, and they looked at glucose utilization in the brain, especially the forebrain, through the transition.

It's wildly different based on what phase of perimenopause, menopause, and postmenopause.

And it's absolutely astounding.

And they're seeing patterns that can give clues that may be the women who are headed towards the dementia route versus those who aren't.

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