How the female brain just gets better in midlife with Dr louann Brizendine

Sex, Body, and Soul

Kate Roberts

Education, Relationships, Sexuality, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 14 April 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Dr Louann Brizendine, M.D., is an American brain scientist, a neuropsychiatrist who is both a researcher and a clinician and professor at the University of California, San Francisco. She is the author of three books: The Female Brain, The Male Brain and most recently The Upgrade. We have a fascinating discussion about how the female brain just keeps getting better into midlife and we delve into hormones, anxiety and all the other things that creep up in midlife.

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0:00.0	All of the male's life, he will have, on average, three times the libido of a female because
0:06.7	his testosterone is so much higher. Remember, girls have a little bit of testosterone from their
0:11.2	ovaries and some from their adrenal glands. And we women do need testosterone. We need testosterone
0:16.3	to have some sex drive, but males have about threefold different.
0:20.7	Welcome to sex, body, and males have about threefold different.
0:23.5	Welcome to sex, body, and soul.
0:29.6	I'm Kate Roberts, founder of the body agency, and on this show, we talk about the marvel that is our bodies, what they can do and what they need to thrive.
0:34.1	Ladies out there, our time is now.
0:36.8	Let's get to it.
0:39.3	Our next guest is Dr. Luan Bresendine, and Dr. Luan is a brain specialist.
0:47.3	Very, very excited about this show. We're going to be talking all about the female and male brain.
0:54.6	Luan is the Lynn and Mark Benioff's endowed chair in clinical psychiatry at the University of California in San Francisco.
1:04.6	And she is also the New York Times bestselling author of the book, The Female Brain.
1:12.0	Welcome to the show, Luan.
1:15.7	Dr. Luan Bresendine.
1:19.6	Have I said that right?
1:20.8	That's good.
1:21.3	It's prison-dine, but we're good.
1:22.5	Prisandine.
1:23.4	Okay.
1:23.9	Well, I was almost there.
1:25.4	Well, I'm going to call you Dr. Brain because you are, first and foremost, a Harvard trained doctor.
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