This one's for Women going through Menopause or Peri-Menopause! So if you're over 35 years of age and suffering from symptoms like Anxiety, Weight gain, Hot Flashes, Mood swings, Join pains and more then check out the latest from the top doc in Women's Health. Dr Mache Seibel who just released his best selling new book The Estrogen Fix. A 20 year veteran of Harvard Medical School, winner of multiple patient education awards, appearances on NPR, PBS, People magazine, Dr. Mache has helped over 10,000 women through Menopause.

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02:53 1. What is Peri-Menopause? What’s Menopause? What age do these begin?- Menopause is one year after the last menstrual period of a woman.- Surgical Menopause are women still menstruating, but have their ovaries removed whether or not the uterus is removed.- Peri-menopause is the window of years around menopause, usually 3-6 years for most women up and can go up to 10 years.- It's when the hormones start to become unbalanced.- Menopause is not an age; it's a transition.

04:30 2. Why do we have so many symptoms? 75% will have hot flashes, will kill sleep, libido, and mood. What is going on in the body?- The mean age of menopause is 51. Women are going to live a 3rd of their life beyond menopause.- When you were going through puberty, your hormones were raging, your mood was up and down, your body was changing, etc.- Your hormones, estrogen and progesterone, were transitioning from unmeasurable levels to imbalanced levels until through puberty where you become reproductive and hormonally balanced.- Then you settled into balance until Peri-menopause when your hormones begin fluctuating again but in reverse. - It can lead to symptoms that can affect your mood, skin, intestines, libido, sleep and more.- All bodily processes begin changing because of hormonal imbalance.- The hormones will drift once again to those low levels that you've had pre-puberty. It's all related to hormonal imbalance.

07:23 3. What are the 3 types of menopause?- Natural Menopause- Surgical Menopause- Iatrogenic Resulting from treatment such as chemotherapy

11:10 4. Can you help us understand Peri-menopause with respect to how does a woman figure that out? Is there a test or is there a number I'm looking for?- In peri-menopause, the common symptom is “I don’t feel right” or “What’s happening to my body, my mind?”- If you feel that you aren't the way you think is normal for you, seek medical help and find out why that is.- The time of Peri-menopause is the time women will experience gut issue, low thyroid, diabetes, symptoms overlapping.- May cause frequent urination, foggy thinking, anxiety, sleep problems, acne, sadness, depression, hot flashes, changes in hair quality.- Frequent urination is a sign of diabetes or can be sensitive bladder due to changes in estrogen- Check your Blood. Follicle Stimulating Hormone (FSH) is a pituitary protein hormone that stimulates the ovaries to produce egg each month. - High levels of FSH is a good indicator of Peri-menopause where ovaries are transitioning to a new role.

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