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visit portal.evilfitness.com. I'm Dr. Shannon Ritchie. I'm a doctor of physical therapy, fitness trainer, and founder

of Ethelof Fitness. In the Dr. Shannon show, you'll learn applicable tools to improve your

health based on science. Welcome to the show. Welcome back, everyone, today. I have, wow, an incredible guest. Dr. Jessica Shepard. She is

stacked with credentials. So I'm just going to read some of them off. So she is a board

certified OBGYN and leading voice in women's health and longevity.

She's the founder of Sanctum, Med, and Wellness, which combines traditional and alternative medicine to provide comprehensive holistic care.

She is the chief medical officer of hers.

And she is an author, the author of Generation M, Living Well in Perimenopause and Menopause. So everyone will have to go get her book.

Yes, they have to. It's a requirement to listening to this episode. So welcome. Thank you so much for

being here. She drove down from Dallas. You've got South by Southwest this weekend.

Yes. So thank you so much for taking the time. Absolutely, I would stop by here. Yay. Well, we're going to get right into the questions that I have for you. And we were kind of discussing offline just now. Our audience, you all listening, are a mixture of ages, anywhere from, you know, 28 to, you know, 50, 60s plus. And what I want to do is you specialize in the peri and postmenopausal years. And I think that women in

their 20s and 30s need to know these things. So whether or not you're going through this as a woman,

I still think that it's important to prepare yourself with things that you can do preventatively

or just understanding what's to come, what's on the horizon.

And I also want to talk a little bit to the women and kind of the challenges that they're facing specifically in like 30s, 40s, things like that. So let's start off by you just explaining how do

our sex hormones change in each decade kind of starting in our 20s?

Yeah, our 20s when probably they're most vibrant.

When you think of adolescence, that's like the becoming of.

And so that's when they're trying to figure out who they are, what they should do, where they go.

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