We're often misdiagnosed as burnout, depression, and anxiety.

Perimenopause is this very gray area of like, how do we define it?

What does it feel like?

Perimenopause is a clinical diagnosis of symptoms and menstrual cycle changes, not necessarily labs.

Hormones, particularly progesterone in this particular phase of perimenopause, can be so supportive.

Can just ease the irritability, can ease the low stress tolerance, can ease the mood swings, even ease

some of those PMS symptoms.

Whenever anyone gets pregnant around me, I'm like, oh, I'm so jealous of all that progesterone.

We're not waiting until menopause.

We're going to intervene right now,

because what happens in this transition is going to set the tone for the next 40 years.

You're listening to Be Well by Kelly Leveck.

Dr. Marisa Snyder, welcome back to the show and in real life.

Yes, Kelly.

I'm so happy to have this conversation with you.

I mean, we can have so many conversations.

This is your ninth book.

You are a serial author.

I feel like anytime there's a topic that isn't like thoroughly investigated and shared. You're like, you know what?

I'll just write a book on that. I got you. Yeah. Well, this one's called the perimenopause revolution and it was funny before the show. I'm like, well, what is it? Because it's, you know, I had Dr. Natalie Crawford on the show. You can tell me what infertility is. It's a year of trying to get pregnant and not getting pregnant. You tell me what menopause is. It's year of not having your

period. Like, I feel like this is like a black box. Like, no, it's like, it's a black hole. Like, what is perimenopause? Like, how can we really define it? What does it feel like? Why is it misdiagnosed all the time. It's just so confusing. So that's why you're here. Yeah, I love this question.

Yeah, that's why you wrote the book. Yeah, that's why I wrote the book. I want to do. define it? What does it feel like? Why is it misdiagnosed all the time? It's just so confusing.

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