4.9 • 759 Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Perimenopause is trending - but are we oversimplifying a complex hormonal transition? In this episode, Erin unpacks the rising buzz around perimenopause and hormone replacement therapy (HRT). She shares why HRT isn’t always the magic bullet it’s hyped up to be and explores how symptoms like mood changes, fatigue, brain fog, and cycle irregularities may actually stem from deeper root causes.
From thyroid dysfunction to estrogen clearance issues, Erin dives into the hormonal nuances that can actually “mimic” perimenopause and why lab testing and nervous system support might be more important than rushing into prescriptions. You’ll also hear why symptoms are your body’s way of communicating and how a functional, whole-human approach could be what you've been missing.
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0:00.0 | These endocrine transitions are a natural part of our life that we will all go through, |
0:06.9 | God willing. |
0:08.0 | Women can spend half their life in parry in post menopause. |
0:12.9 | The decline in hormones can negatively impact many aspects of our body and our health and how we feel. We do need support here and we should |
0:23.9 | not be okay with allowing women to suffer through this time and just being told like, |
0:29.6 | suck it up. I'm Erin Holt and this is the functional nutrition podcast where we lean into |
0:34.8 | intuitive functional medicine. We look at how diet, our environment, our emotions, and our beliefs all affect our physical |
0:42.4 | health. |
0:43.2 | I've got over a decade of clinical experience, and because of that, I've got a major bone |
0:47.7 | to pick with diet culture and the conventional health care model. |
0:51.1 | This show is for you if you're looking for new ways of thinking about your health |
0:54.6 | and you're ready to be an active participant in your own healing. I would love for you to follow the show, |
1:00.1 | rate, review, and share because you never know whose life you might change. Perimenopause, are you guys |
1:07.1 | ready? Are you ready to do this? Let's talk about it. Parymenopause is so hot right now. |
1:13.7 | As a 41-year-old woman, it's pretty much all I'm hearing about personally, and not even just on social media. |
1:20.7 | It's coming up in a lot of conversations, too. And the stuff that I'm seeing, the dialogues that I'm engaged with, the content I'm receiving, |
1:32.1 | conversations I'm having, I just feel like there's something missing from the conversation |
1:36.8 | or there's aspects of it that leave me scratching my head. So I'm going to bring some of that |
1:41.8 | to the table today. With the perimenopause |
1:45.2 | conversation, HRT is coming in hot too. A lot of people talking about that. So I will reference |
1:52.0 | that quite a bit. H.R.T stands for hormone replacement therapy. There are different types. |
1:58.4 | There's different hormones, estrogen, progesterone, testosterone, and there's different types of HRT. Bioidentical hormone replacement therapy is one, |
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