Ep.38 All The Things They Never Told Us About Female Bodies With Dr Hazel Wallace
Working Hard with Grace Beverley
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The Role of Hormones in Mental Health
The stats are that like women are twice as likely to experience anxiety and depression in their lifetime be diagnosed with it. The reason why that is we're not entirely sure it seems to be both biology and and kind of social and gender And kind of norms and how we deal with stress So on a kind of biological level There seems to be something to do with hormones and how we respond different differently in terms of that like fight or flight response so men typically will fight in a kind of stressful scenario Whereas women they use this term in the research called tend and befriend Where they'll look after or they'll look out for their offspring or the people closest to them first before dealing with themselves.
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