Could Your Environment Be Affecting Your Menopause? | Blue Zones, Longevity & Hormones with Dr Ash Kapoor

longevity and human optimization physician.

In your work, you often reference how humans lived thousands of years ago.

You've talked about tribal living, like the Maasai.

When you look at those people, how they lived, or even people living in blue zones, compared to how we live today, I guess, particularly in bigger cities, what are the gaps, like what gaps do you see that are revealing why menopause, like why women in the Western world are experiencing it differently? That was the longest question.

I know, but I think

it's probably one of the most relevant questions I've ever been asked because Having done this for 10 years, going around in circles and analyzing different parts of the world and how people function, it's come down now to me to two things.

What in the blue zones that exist that we're struggling with? One is authentic communities.

it's in the blue zones people feel part of something bigger and with that there's a big security blanket a subconscious security blanket that it's really hard to describe so it's almost like children growing up in these environments have 50 fathers and 50 mothers they feel totally secure and that's what communities give them now remember if our adrenal gland our fight or flight is responsible for 95 of our problems and you switch that off, you're running on the right energy all the time and you don't have any problems.

You just become a constant responder.

So communities are super powerful.

We're lacking them.

And even when we are at work, there's battles, there's politics, there's environmental issues.

You know, we don't do anything because communities don't exist.

In communities, you go and see your neighbor.

You don't have a problem just walking into people's houses.

There's no formalities because you feel secure.

And with that, you're more active.

You're more engaging in things that require movement.

You know, you go to parks together.

You'll sit down and have dinners together.

You'll make active movements here.

The lack of communities means we're more isolated.

We're more stagnant because we've delegated it to TVs and Netflix and various other things.

So communities, I think, is one of the things that we need to understand and build on.

And I can't tell you how enabling it is.