Andrew Huberman· PhD
and there was a kind of evolving link between estrogen and frontal low function and she did this amazing study where she studied healthy uh Berkeley undergraduates at two points in time during the mental cycle when EST was at his lowest and what was his highest and she also um gentite them for this enzyme they we were talking about to know if they were sort of lower or higher on the dopamine level and then put them in the scanner and measured frontal function and and showed that there was a clear frontal low function was modulated by where they were in their estrogen cycle when they were low estrogen they were low dopamine and if they were low estrogen and low dopamine to start they were really had decreased frontal low function and decreased working memory ability