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I\u2019m honored to reconnect with Dr. Felice Gersh today! She is a multi-award-winning physician with dual board certification in OB-GYN and Integrative Medicine. We connected once before in Episode 221, where we spoke about PCOS and metabolic health.\nToday, Dr. Gersh joins me to dive into perimenopause and menopause. We discuss various issues surrounding the Women\u2019s Health Initiative and talk about estrogen as a family of hormones, estrogen-mimicking chemicals, synthetic hormones, and oral contraceptives. We get into the importance of thyroid function, the pro-inflammatory state of a loss of estrogen in perimenopause and menopause, and the importance of nutrition and exercise for the metabolism. We also speak about the lesser-known changes that occur in menopause, including changes in body odor, constipation, sarcopenia, osteoporosis, and vocal changes.\xa0\nI intend to invite Dr. Gersh back again to discuss women and mitochondrial health, and then once again to talk about her latest book, Menopause: The Fifty Things You Need to Know.\xa0\nStay tuned to find out what menopause really is, and what it does to a woman\u2019s metabolic system.\nIN THIS EPISODE YOU WILL LEARN:\n\nDr. Gersh discusses the Women\u2019s Health Initiative study and its devastating effects.\n\nThe difference between synthetic and bioidentical hormones.\n\nHow chronic diseases of aging can be delayed when hormones are incorporated along with other lifestyle refinements.\n\nWhat do hormones do?\n\nWhy every immune cell in the body has receptors for vital hormones.\n\nWhy menopause cannot be defined by a specific moment in time.\n\nChanges that occur physiologically during the perimenopause years.\n\nHow hormones can change the perimenopause paradigm entirely.\n\nWhy perimenopause\xa0\n\ntranslates into many sleep issues.\n\nWhy phytoestrogens are nature\u2019s gift to women.\n\n\nConnect with Cynthia Thurlow\n\nFollow on Twitter, Instagram & LinkedIn\n\n\nCheck out Cynthia\u2019s website\xa0\n\n\nConnect with Dr. Felice Gersh\n\nOn her website: Integrative Medical Group of Irvine\n\n\nOn Instagram\n\n\n\nAll of Dr. Gersh\u2019s books are available on Amazon\n\nEpisode 221 on PCOS with Dr. Felice Gersh\nGo to www.toxicology.gov to see all the ingredients in birth control pills listed as endocrine disruptors.