Menopause is associated with a large constellation of symptoms, and because this has been historically really understudied, I don't think we have a full handle
through menopause as a vegetarian as a vegan woman and most of my vegan women friends like myself went through
The menopause transition is anywhere between four to seven years, maybe even a little bit longer, and it is this winding down of reproductive hormones.
or Menopause Society, the CDC, you could put the WHO.
have been through the menopause .
And so menopause represents evolution in the long game, it's the idea that we retain our power as we age.
We say menopause has occurred when you are a year from your last period.
for treating menopause .
We expect menopause to happen, we expect estrogen levels to change, but we also don't expect people to suffer, and so it's a therapy.
or physiologic states like menopause isn't always evidence-based.
corresponds to the age of menopause um and we now know that premenopausal breast cancer is a totally different
and that time is known as the menopause transition, but you may have also heard it as perimenopause or pre-menopause .
and we say everything after that final period is post menopause .
Because while menopausal hormone therapy can help many parts of menopause , there's also parts that it can't help, right?
It also doesn't work for weight gain in menopause and we do not recommend starting menopausal hormone therapy for prevention of dementia or Alzheimer's disease
One symptom that isn't discussed enough in the menopause transition are menstrual irregularities.
So while a lot of women go and osteoporosis manifests around the time of menopause .
Medically, we use the word menopause to describe the day of the final period, but you never really know it's the day until afterwards,
Now, people can also have surgical menopause .
You can have your ovaries removed and then that puts you into menopause .
Interestingly, it doesn't help after menopause .
If your final period happens between ages 40 and before 45, then we call that premature menopause .
So some people have their worst symptoms earlier on and some people have their worst symptoms towards the end of the menopause transition
A good example would be depression in the menopause transition.
Well, if we needed the menstrual cycle to get rid of toxins, then I have bad news for women in menopause and all of men, right.
Let's say you're chronically sleep-deprived, you're watching Netflix til 3:00 AM, you've been raising kids for decades, you're a woman, you've gone through menopause .