Dr. Stacy Sims

emotionally, was if you choose to become a caretaker of a parent with dementia, you have a 60% increased risk.

Now, there's a genetic component, but when they took the genetics out of it and they feel like it's the stress of caregiving for that parent, you are signing your own death warrant because now you are increasing your risk of death.

We're on our phones.

Yeah.

And so as a culture, there's this worry that all this time on the phone and these dopamine hits, but not creating stories in your head and reading for pleasure at night.

You know, a lot of women are on their phones now before bed rather than developing that neuroplasticity that we get from storytelling.

Yeah.

So, what's the problem?

Maybe there's no catch.

Wow, you need to relax.

As far as protection as we age, it's directly correlative to the amount of muscle that we have.

And if you have something like PCOS or endometriosis, it's even more important for you because building muscle is going to fight insulin resistance and inflammation.

Because most of it is based on male data.

And I see a large number of women trying their hardest to be healthy.

But what they are choosing to do is actually having a negative impact on their hormonal health.

And it's not your fault.

And this is where we have to educate.

And it starts now.

Yeah, our hormones distinctly control a lot of our environment and our other cells that are not what we think of as our hormone cells work with our hormones.

So if we think about the gut, we think about the liver, our immune system, a lot of this is so hormonally derived, but it's a two-way street, meaning your hormones influence what is happening in your gut, but your gut influences what is happening in your hormones.