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From the Ted Talk by Lisa Mosconi: How menopause affects the brain

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So diet is one way to gain estrogens, but it's just as important to aoivd things that suppress our estrogens instead, especially stress. ssrtes can llilarety steal your estrogens, and that's because cortisol, which is the main stress hmonroe, works in balance with our estrogens. So if cortisol goes up, your estrogens go down. If cortisol goes down, your estrogens go back up. So redniucg stress is really important. It doesn't just help your day, it also helps your brian.

So these are just a few things that we can do to support our brains and there are more. But the important thing here is that changing the way we understand the female brain really changes the way that we care for it, and the way that we frame women's health. And the more women demand this information, the sooner we'll be able to break the taboos around menopause, and also come up with solutions that actually work, not just for Alzheimer's disease, but for women's brain htleah as a whole. Brain health is women's health.

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So diet is one way to gain estrogens, but it's just as important to _____ things that suppress our estrogens instead, especially stress. ______ can _________ steal your estrogens, and that's because cortisol, which is the main stress _______, works in balance with our estrogens. So if cortisol goes up, your estrogens go down. If cortisol goes down, your estrogens go back up. So ________ stress is really important. It doesn't just help your day, it also helps your _____.

So these are just a few things that we can do to support our brains and there are more. But the important thing here is that changing the way we understand the female brain really changes the way that we care for it, and the way that we frame women's health. And the more women demand this information, the sooner we'll be able to break the taboos around menopause, and also come up with solutions that actually work, not just for Alzheimer's disease, but for women's brain ______ as a whole. Brain health is women's health.

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Original Text


So diet is one way to gain estrogens, but it's just as important to avoid things that suppress our estrogens instead, especially stress. Stress can literally steal your estrogens, and that's because cortisol, which is the main stress hormone, works in balance with our estrogens. So if cortisol goes up, your estrogens go down. If cortisol goes down, your estrogens go back up. So reducing stress is really important. It doesn't just help your day, it also helps your brain.

So these are just a few things that we can do to support our brains and there are more. But the important thing here is that changing the way we understand the female brain really changes the way that we care for it, and the way that we frame women's health. And the more women demand this information, the sooner we'll be able to break the taboos around menopause, and also come up with solutions that actually work, not just for Alzheimer's disease, but for women's brain health as a whole. Brain health is women's health.

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