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Hi and welcome to the Wellness Momma Podcast where I provide simple answers for healthier families.

A random fact for your day. Did you know that researchers at the Indiana University School of Medicine used FMRI machines to monitor brain activity while women and men listen to a passage from a novel.

While most of the men showed activity exclusively on the left side of their brain, which is typically associated with listening and speech, most of the women showed additional activity on the right side of their brain, which is usually associated with creativity and expressiveness.

So this could be why women are usually credited with hearing what's left unsaid in the conversation. And it also speaks to the very vast difference between men and women on a lot of things.

And with today's guests, we're actually going to be touching on the difference between men and women when it comes especially to movement and fitness and health.

And I couldn't be more excited. Brianne Grogren is a doctor of physical therapy with a specialist in women's health.

She writes at FEMFusionFitness.com and has a program designed especially for women to learn how to move their bodies correctly for optimal health.

She's reversed her own IBS and anxiety and she's just such an inspiration all the way around. Thanks so much for being here, Brianne.

Oh, thank you, Katie. I'm so excited to be here. I've been a fan of yours for years. So it's fun to be on the on your podcast.

Oh, and Ditto, I've been your fan for a long time too.

Well, to jump right in, obviously one thing that you talk about a lot and that is one of my favorite things to read about from you is movement.

And especially how women should move because I think so often when we think of movement, we just think of exercise and we fit into the like, we should be a treadmill, you know, running on the treadmill like a hamster on a wheel or just excessive cardio.

But you talk so much about how it's so much deeper than that and how there are very feminine specific movements. And I think it's fascinating. So can we delve into that?

Yeah, absolutely. So yeah, essentially I like to think of the way we want to, I'm just going to lead into this, you know, burn calories, although that's certainly not what it's all about anyway.

But you know, stay healthy and stay active. People will think of exercise, but I just like to call it movement. I mean, just moving, moving, moving, moving more.

And whatever makes you happy is what ultimately you will want to do to add more movement to your life. So for some people that is, you know, spending plenty of time at the gym, but for other people that's not spending time at the gym.

It's just moving in different ways, maybe walking or hiking or just moving more throughout the day by way of what's called incidental movement, which is just fitting more random movements into your day as far as, you know,

the basic things we always hear such as taking the stairs or parking in the farthest parking spots or, you know, really getting into it when you clean and really getting under the couches and around the chairs and just finding ways to be more active in your daily life.

So that's really key is just moving more and finding something that you really love. And as far as one thing I talk about is feminine movement, and I call it feminine movement in that it's, it's just movements that you think of women doing men can certainly do them too, but hip circles and figure eights and swirling wonderful, syneus sneak like movements are so wonderful for your core muscles.

Including your hips, your back muscles, your abdominal muscles, your pelvic floor, all of those muscles really benefit from feminine movements like hip circles and and figure eights and all of the ones that I just mentioned.

So that's something that I that I kind of promote that might be different from what other people promote promote and talk about.

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