Dr. Vonda Wright

So conditioned to do 10 to 15 reps to get, quote, toned and not really put in the work they need to to build muscle and to get the benefit out of strength training.

And I'm always telling women, you're underestimating yourself in so many facets.

Don't cheat yourself with the strength training as well.

Exactly.

The other thing I want to bring in is the brain health component, right?

We talk about Alzheimer's and dementia.

And one of the reasons I really preface doing high-intensity work is the lactate production.

Because we're finding more and more research coming out showing that part of the development of dementia and Alzheimer's and the plaque is a misstep in brain metabolism.

So when we're looking at brain metabolism and the brain uses a lot of glucose, it also uses lactate.

Now, for women, we have less of the glycolytic or lactate-producing fibers, and we tend to lose those with age.

Men are born with more, tend to hold on to them more, so it's not necessarily as big an issue for lactate production.

Men need to spend more time in the low-intensity being able to

produce more of our fat burning capacity.

But for women doing that high intensity work and being able to produce lactate to then allow the heart and the brain to use that preferential fuel feeds forward to reducing the misstep in this

brain metabolism component that occurs and it's such a sex difference when we're seeing a change in glucose metabolism in and around perimenopause into menopause so it's a lactate production that i it's kind of the offshoot of the high intensity work that's super important for brain health

And the sociocultural component.

I keep bringing it up because I work.

Yeah.

But also, if we're looking at women who are 80, 90 years old now, their upbringing to this point is completely different than ours, meaning that the job availability and the brain stimulation they had when they were in their 30s, 40s, 50s, completely different than what we have now.

Worse.