360: Hot Flashes, Semaglutides for Perimenopause, and All Things Estrogen - Dr. Jessica Shepherd
ON AIR WITH ELLA | Women's Wellness
Ella Lucas-Averett
5.0 • 704 Ratings
🗓️ 21 August 2024
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Jessica Shepherd, a board-certified gynecologist and menopause expert joins Ella to discuss:
- 00:00:00 - Introducing Dr. Jessica Shepherd
- 00:05:30 - Importance of Estrogen in Women's Health
- 00:11:37 - Managing Hot Flashes and Night Sweats
- 00:18:48 - Zone 2 Exercise - beneficial or not for perimenopausal women?
- 00:25:23 - Advice for women before and during perimenopause
- 00:34:02 - GLP-1 Drugs (Ozempic, Wegovy; semaglutides) - Benefits in Menopause?
- 00:36:27 - Macro vs. Micro Dosing of Semaglutides
Connect with Dr. Jessica Shepherd: @jessicashepherdmd
Show notes: https://www.onairella.com/post/360-hot-flashes-perimenopause
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome. You're on air with Ella where we share simple strategies and tips for living a little better every day. |
| 0:09.3 | If you're interested in mindset and wellness or healthy habits and relationships, or hormone health, aging well and eating well, honestly, if you're into just living better and with more energy, then you're in the right place. |
| 0:22.3 | Welcome to real, honest, no-fluff conversations about creating a better you. |
| 0:27.7 | We're not here for perfect. |
| 0:29.1 | We're here for a little better every day. |
| 0:31.9 | Let's go. |
| 0:33.9 | Hey, you're on air with Ella, and today I am joined by the one, the only. Dr. Jessica Shepard, |
| 0:39.6 | Dr. Jessica Shepard, how are you? I am doing so well. I'm so glad that we have figured out how to be |
| 0:44.9 | on this together. I can't wait to see what the next few minutes are going to bring. |
| 0:48.2 | Listen, the reason you're a hot commodity is because you are out in the world. You're one of the few |
| 0:53.7 | people in my universe right now who is are out in the world. You're one of the few people in my universe right now |
| 0:56.3 | who is really out in the world educating people about perimenopause and menopause and changing |
| 1:02.4 | the narrative so successfully that it's my honor and my privilege to have you on the air. So thank you, |
| 1:08.7 | thank you, thank you for joining us. Would you tell us who you are and what you do in your own words? I'm Dr. Jessica Shepard, a board |
| 1:14.5 | certified gynecologist, but also a menopause expert. You know, I think five years ago is really when I wanted to focus on women's health in the midlife stage. So that's perimenopause and menopause, but also looking at it from a perspective of how to enter this transition, but what's going to |
| 1:28.5 | carry us through and create this longevity effect where we're and menopause, but also looking at it from a perspective of how to enter this transition, |
| 1:27.9 | but what's going to carry us through and create this longevity effect where we have amazing |
| 1:32.5 | well span? And so that's a full like kit and caboodle of what I do, but there's so many aspects |
| 1:38.3 | of it. So I hope that today we can even just get a highlight of what that really means. |
| 1:43.2 | Yeah, let me get down into brass tacks straight away and share some of the things that we have talked about before and some of the things that we would love to dive in deeper with you today, Dr. Shepard. We have had Dr. Vonda Wright. We have had Dr. Stacey Sims. I know these are friends of yours. We have had Dr. Gita Nyair, we have had Dr. Kara Fitzgerald. We have had |
| 2:02.0 | so many intelligent women on this platform who have helped us understand things from the |
| 2:09.5 | musculoskeletal degradation, if you will, or how much more prone to injury we are when our |
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