Childhood Trauma, Birth Control & Your Gut: The Perimenopause Reckoning with Cynthia Thurlow

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Dr. Stephanie Estima

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4.8 • 613 Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2026

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Weight changes, mood swings, and digestive issues? Let's stop framing aging as a failure! Cynthia Thurlow explores how these changes during menopause can actually transform your health journey.

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0:00.0	Imagine if we said that to men. Like, imagine if we were like, you know why you can't get erect?
0:05.9	Like, maybe you should, like, join a running club.
0:08.6	Meditate. You need to meditate. Meditate your way to an erection.
0:11.8	Yeah, exactly. I was reflecting recently, how old was I the first time someone made a comment about my weight?
0:20.1	Ooh. I was 12 years old. Yeah, I remember my nickname when I was, the first time someone made a comment about my weight. Oh.
0:22.2	I was 12 years old.
0:22.9	Yeah.
0:26.9	I remember my nickname when I was in, I guess I was grade 9, grade 10 was Caboose.
0:27.8	Oh, here comes a caboose.
0:30.2	Whether that's neglect or abuse or a family member had an addiction.
0:36.2	The imprinting that we get as children, from those experiences,
0:40.6	you take that quiz, you get a number if your number is high, and I think of high as anything
0:44.7	over three or four. Seven, right, seven right over here. We know based on research that it puts you
0:51.2	at risk for quite a few things, not just autoimmune conditions.
0:55.0	If you think perimenopause and menopause is just about slapping on an estrogen patch, you're wrong.
1:01.0	You want to understand how the gut interfaces with these changes in hormones and neurotransmitters
1:07.0	because it is oftentimes the missing link for why you're not feeling better.
1:17.6	Hello, my friends.
1:18.8	Welcome to another episode of Better with Dr. Stephanie.
1:21.5	It's me, your host, Dr. Stephanie Estima.
1:23.8	Have you ever been told that you're gaining weight or you go into a doctor's office?
1:29.8	You tell them that you're feeling sluggish.
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