So hello, and I wish you could see what I could see I am in the French Alps, and sharing some of my top tips about health and vitality, particularly if you are a woman over 40 you may have seen my first video where I promise to share with you particularly some of the interesting facts that I've learned over the years about the difference between men and women and specifically about the way that we deal with stress. So this very short video, I'm going to keep each of my videos really short and talks about the way that we physiologically deal with stress as women compared to men. So we need to go back a bit. We need to go back to when we were cave dwellers basically, when and you may have heard this before, where men were the hunter gatherers and they would go out and kill The buffalo are the prey, and they would need massive amounts of those hormones, the flight of fight hormones such as adrenaline, cortisol, and testosterone.

So they would need to be able to do that to go and get their prey and bring it back to the women who would be the family the homemakers making the fire tending the children. And so, physiologically, it meant that men needed to be able to access those high levels of stress hormones really, really quickly. Women however, historically, we didn't need to be able to do that there was an under no circumstances where we required really to be able to produce those stress hormones, in such levels as men. But what's really interesting is that because men were designed to produce these stressful moments, really really quickly, but also to designed to be able to cope with bringing those stress hormones back down to normal levels. And we kind of see this nowadays. I don't know about you and the men in your life, but certainly, you know, if a man has a stressful time, whether it be at work or they've gone and you know, played a sport, you know, watch the marathon, whatever it might be, you're having an argument, they're much more likely to withdraw, and to kind of be able to relax and just completely switch off.

And this is them, allowing their body to dissipate or get rid of those stress hormones. Now, if you think about the difference between how a woman would react, so if we've had a stressful argument, if we've done been out for a run, if we've had a hard day at work, the likelihood of us being able to come home, sit in our, you know, man cave, the equivalent of our man cave, and just relax and allow those hormones to dissipate. To be honest with you, a fairly unlikely Would you agree? So this means that not only from a kind of habitual sense, but also from a physiological physiological sense as well is that women are unable to be able to cope with these high levels of those stress hormones, it takes longer for us to dispel them and so they sit within our body for a much longer period of time.

So that's my number one, kind of the basis of where we're going to go with these short videos about stress. And tomorrow. What I'm going to do on the next video is or on the next video, I'm going to share with you what the implications are for that on our bodies, particularly as a woman. So like, share, subscribe, and I'll see you on the next video.