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Dr. Sara Gottfried - The Brain & Body Connection

Better! with Dr. Stephanie

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The Gut Brain Axis and the Connection Between Women and the Brain

There are areas in the brain, the hippocampus, the cerebellum tends to be bigger in men so that that motor coordination tends to be a little bit more other tends to be more robust density of neurons there. And even our prefrontal cortex like females tend to have a larger prefrontal cortex to your point because we marinate because it's exquisitely sensitive to estradiol. So if you marinate the brain in the phenotype estrogen, you're going to have areas that are that are going to be bigger like the PFC like the hippocampus. That's why women with stealth like accuracy right they can like pick up subtleties and your facial expressions they can figure you know they can sort

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