This is a short transcript excerpt from a YouTube video (by Dr. Tabatha Barber) discussing the phenomenon of a "busy brain" in women—how it presents (feelings of hormonal imbalance, gut issues, racing thoughts) and what common scenarios or overlooked causes might be. The content is conversational and framed as clinician-patient dialogue exploring symptoms and underlying factors such as hormones, gut health, and stress.
Women come to me and they feel like their hormones are out of whack or their gut is a hot mess and they have a busy brain. So what is.
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Most common scenario and what aren't women realizing?
There is a chronic pattern of neuroinflammation that happens in the brain when chronic stress goes unchecked. We find high performing people have these three symptoms. They have difficulty focusing throughout the day, maybe even adult onset attention deficit disorder, severe anxiety all the way to panic attacks. So now you're needing caffeine or a stimulant, a prescribed stimulant to cope with your day and you're like I can't shut down my workday, let me have a glass of wine or three. And if that doesn't work you're using a prescription sleeping pill or Xanax or something like that. That's the busy brain. This triad of I, I can't focus to adult onset attention deficit disorder, anxiety and insomnia.
