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Your Gut Bacteria Are Running Your Hormones: Here Is What That Means in Menopause

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You have probably had the menopause conversation centered on your ovaries. Declining estrogen. Fluctuating progesterone. Hormones going off a cliff. What that conversation almost never includes is your gut microbiome and the direct role it plays in regulating your menopause hormones. That is a serious omission, because a growing body of research now shows that […]

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What the Lancet’s Menopause-Dementia Study Actually Tells Us, and What It Doesn’t

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Women develop Alzheimer’s disease at nearly twice the rate of men. Two out of every three Alzheimer’s cases are in women. And yet for most of the past two decades, women were told that hormone therapy, one of the most biologically logical interventions we have for the estrogen-brain connection, was too risky to consider. So

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Hormone Therapy and Heart Disease: The Outdated Fear That Is Still Costing Women Their Health

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I want you to think about how many women you know who have been told that hormone therapy cardiovascular risk is too high, full stop, no further conversation. Mothers. Sisters. Friends. Colleagues. Women who came to me after their doctors refused to discuss it. Their doctors sent them home with antidepressants, told them to manage

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Estrogen Loss Doesn’t Just Lower Your Hormones — It Rewrites Your DNA

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I’ve had this conversation thousands of times. A woman comes in after menopause: sharp, healthy-living, doing everything “right,” and suddenly she has high cholesterol. Or prediabetes. Or her blood pressure is creeping up for the first time in her life. She’s baffled. Her doctor shrugs and says “it happens with age.” It’s not age. It’s

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Perimenopause Nearly Doubles Your Risk of Poor Heart Health – Here’s Why

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Your period is irregular. You’re not sleeping. You’ve gained weight around your midsection despite eating the same way you always have. Your doctor says your labs “look fine.” But something is off, and you’re not imagining it. Here’s what mainstream medicine isn’t telling you: the hormonal turbulence of perimenopause doesn’t just make you miserable in

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Menopause Is Inevitable. Suffering Isn’t. How to Treat Menopause Symptoms at Their Root Cause

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Menopause Is Inevitable. Suffering Isn’t. How to Treat Menopause Symptoms at Their Root Cause     To start, let me tell you about the talk I have more than any other. A woman comes in, usually in her late 40s or early 50s, usually having been through at least one, sometimes two or three other

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