In this episode (part two):

We pick up where we left off. We learned in part one how the Chinese Body Clock can be used to help identify what organ needs support, both energetically and physically. Today, we begin with the small intestine.

• Small Intestine (1-3pm) - During perimenopause, women often report afternoon cognitive decline, difficulty with decision-making, and what's clinically described as "brain fog" appearing consistently in this time window
• Bladder time (3-5pm) - it stores and releases not just physical fluids but also relates to our capacity for willpower and forward momentum
• Kidney time (5-7pm) - the organ system that bears a heavy burden of transformation, responsible for producing, storing, and during perimenopause, fundamentally redistributing reproductive hormones
• Pericardium's evening (7-9pm) temperature chaos - hot flashes, emotional protection going haywire, intimacy feeling impossibly vulnerable or distant
• Triple Burner (9-11pm) meridian - the body's thermostat can fluctuate between freezing and burning within minutes; often experiences significant dysregulation - hence the characteristic night sweats
• Gallbladder (11pm-1am) - governs our capacity for clear judgment and decisive action

Perimenopause isn't the body malfunctioning - it's the body restructuring itself. Each symptom appearing in its organ window is your body communicating with you, it's just speaking a language you're still learning to translate!