Nyree Penn explains estrogen's role in reproductive health and brain function. When levels drop, women experience irritability and aggression. Estrogen regulates GABA, the neurotransmitter that promotes calmness and sleep.
Chapters
Estrogen serves a couple of different purposes for women when we're having babies and fertilization. And then the neuroprotective effects is specifically for the ovaries and the eggs, right? It maintains a healthy balance for the transition and the growth and neuroregulation for the baby and baby formation. So with estrogen, estrogen plays a key role in GABA, like I said before, that one that keeps you sleepy. It also keeps you calm. And so as that goes down, you'll notice You get more road rage. People aggravate you more. You have no tolerance for anything at all. That's that estrogen. Estrogen is what keeps us, you know, women, I like to say. Keeps that feminine, that calm, that peace.