Are you feeling irritable, gaining weight, can't sleep, or struggling to hold it together? You might be having perimenopausal symptoms. Dr Deb shares how women over 30 can navigate fluctuating hormones and get back to feeling like themselves,

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• 3:27 Birth control shuts off ovulation and lowers testosterone
• 8:49 ⁠Symptoms of Perimenopause⁠
• 9:50 Are you being told you're too young to have a hormone problem?

• 13:52 Anxiety and panic attacks are symptoms of perimenopause
• 23:09 Wild yam tinctures vs bioidentical progesterone
• 26:33 ⁠The Naked Truth About Bioidentical Hormones⁠ - Suzanne Somers

• 27:03 When to consider using estrogen
• 29:43 Estrogen is important for heart, brain, bones, and more
• 31:15 Estrogen can help ease joint pain and frozen shoulder

• 33:32 WHI, estrogen, and breast cancer
• 38:55 ⁠Estrogen Matters⁠ - Avrum Bluming
• 39:56 Herbs to ease perimenopause symptoms

Black cohosh

Maca

• 42:55 Estradiol vs estriol
• 43:22 Estriol can strengthen pelvic floor and keep vagina thriving
• 49:47 Hormone therapy lowers women's risk for dementia, osteoporosis, and hip fractures

• 50:14 Feel like you have ADD at 50?
• 51:47 You do NOT have to stop hormones just because you turn a certain age
• 56:29 ⁠Dr. Devaki Lindsey Berkson - episode 56

• 57:57 Testosterone for women
• 58:47 Testosterone can ease autoimmune conditions and acts as anti-inflammatory support
• 59:02: Hormone recommendation guide

• 1:01:24 Zero is a 'normal range' for testosterone (which is atrocious!)
• 1:01:50 Cortisol & Testosterone are opposites
• 1:06:46 Estrogen gives women their waist

• 1:06:56 How to lose weight
• 1:09:10 "Menopause is natural" myth
• 1:10:11 Real life story of a woman who was told all her labs looked 'normal.' She lost 40 pounds with the right treatment!

• 1:14:46 Dr Deb's book: ⁠This is Not Normal⁠ (free on Kindle)

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