Dr. Vonda Wright

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2,776 appearances 16 recordings 9 series first heard Mar 2025 last heard 2 Jul

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The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett · Most Replayed Moment: This Is The Best Exercise Protocol For Women! · 8 May 2026 podcast

Yeah, 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 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 that lactate production that is 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 40s, 30s, 40s, 50s, completely different than what we have now.

So they didn't have necessarily the opportunity to be scientists, lawyers, medical doctors.

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