Dr. Stacy Sims

But modern medicine acts like you're perfect or it's turned off.

And the reality is there's all these shades of gray in between where these different chronic stressors and your insulin resistance and your inflammation and your overexercising and your underfueling come in and make it so the hypothalamus is not responding correctly.

Correct.

And that's what we're trying to get people to intervene there before it gets too bad.

And I see a large number of women who do fall into that zone where they are trying their hardest to be healthy.

But what they are choosing to do is actually having a negative impact on their hormonal health and how their brain is interpreting their hormones.

And it's very rare to see that in a man.

Meaning the number one reason why I will see low testosterone is purely because many men are taking testosterone or because of other exogenous factors like marijuana use.

It is very rarely my brain is not sending out the signals to cause my testicles to make testosterone.

You're laying down grain pathways and neural fibers.

Think about it like the bone, but you're creating pathways in your brain to make you healthier.

But you have to have an active plan to combat this, right?

You're not going to live in a world that is stress-free.

If you're a woman in the world, you are likely to have a caretaking role in some fashion, even if you are chasing other dreams when it comes to professionally.

Building good brain pathways is wonderful as far as a way to –

help start from a higher standpoint before you have brain loss.

However, just like we've said on these other tangents, the brain is that too.

We need to think about active ways we're going to combat what is happening in today's world naturally.

And some of the factors are modern society that put us into this pro-inflammatory state.

But we need to think about