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Hi, everyone.

Welcome to I Choose Me.

This podcast is all about the choices we make and how they shape our lives.

Today, we're making a choice to embrace a

brand new way of thinking about aging with the incredible Dr. Mindy Pells. Dr. Mindy says,

Menopause isn't the end of anything. It's the beginning of everything. Her new book,

Age Like a Girl, blends neuroscience and psychology

and invites women to transform the next part of our lives into the most powerful chapter yet.

Please welcome, Dr. Mindy. Dr. Mindy, you say that postmenopausal, we have a new brain emerging.

I've never heard it quite said like that.

What do you mean?

Oh my gosh.

I love that you've never heard this because this is a 10-year research project that I've

been on proving that menopause is actually working for us.

And what I mean by it is that the brain rewires itself with the drop in sex hormones, primarily estrogen.

The brain starts to take the neurons you no longer need.

And you know what neurons you don't need anymore? Which ones? You don't need the people pleasing neurons. You don't need, I'm going to fix

everybody's life neurons. Bye-bye neurons. Exactly. All the things that kept us tethered to everybody

else's opinion of us, those neurons go away to make room for new neurons that are setting you up for more independent thinking, more leadership, more focus, better cognition.

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