Dr. Sara Gottfried
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For sure.
You know, you think about your heart cells, mitochondria, and how they power your cell.
Your heart cells have about 2,500 mitochondria.
Your ovaries, mature oocyte, a million mitochondria.
So if you have mitochondrial problems, you know, you're too stressed, you eat too much sugar, you don't get enough sleep, it shows up in your ovaries.
Wow.
It sure does.
Well, it causes a lot of problems.
It increases inflammation, reduces testosterone levels, can decrease libido.
It can cause gut changes like microbiome changes.
So it causes a lot of issues in terms of how it affects longevity.
We don't really know.
Yeah.
I mean, we see both testosterone that's too low in women and also too high.
So too high is polycystic ovary syndrome.
It's similar to low T in men.
And then too low is often related to too much stress, too much cortisol.
I see that a lot in hustlers, people who are part of the hustle culture.
You're not anymore?
You graduated?