For plurisubharmonic \(\varphi \) in a bounded pseudoconvex \(\Omega \) in \(\mathbb C^n\) , we analyze the lower bound for the Bergman kernel (on the diagonal, with weight \(e^{-\varphi }\) ) of the form \(K_{\Omega ,\varphi }\ge e^{\varphi }/C\) . By the Ohsawa–Takegoshi extension theorem, there exists such a constant depending on n and the diameter of \(\Omega \) . We give a proof of this using Hörmander’s \(L^2\) estimate for \(\bar{\partial }\) directly. We also show that one can improve the constant to \(C=|\Omega |\) if \(n=1\) and to \(C=2\,|\Omega |\) if \(\Omega \) is convex, where \(|\Omega |\) denotes the volume (or area) of \(\Omega \) . We conjecture that the former holds in arbitrary dimension (it trivially does in the unweighted case).