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Sweatty and piss, sweaty Sweaty and Piss,

Manapause makes me sweaty and Pist.

Hi, welcome back to Sweaty and about menopause and more and I'm Karen

nickel family nurse practitioner and joining me is Le Morgan, stand-up comedian, and somebody that's sweating and piss.

Not too bad, I'm not pissed.

I'm sweating.

Yeah, we've both been, we've both been through it, so we know what you're dealing with out there so and

last time we talked about perimenopause sort of in general some of the things that

happened during perimenopause, sort of in general, some of the things that happened during

peri menopause, and those are the years, peri means around, so around menopause

happens usually age 35 to 50 and so one of the big things that happens is

estrogen levels tend to go up and tend to be unstable they they're up and down,

and progesterone really drops.

So, we're just going to talk about some of the things

that happen when that imbalance occurs and some of the things we can do about it.

Oh good, okay. I know. So, so, you know, estrogen, I don't want estrogen sound like the bad guy although I know you felt

like it was I feel yes the bad guy hormone yes because I've all the sudden had a big gob of estrogen. It changes hair. Her, my brass were the size of watermelons, felt heavy and I would look in the mirror as I walked by like in a Walmart glass and think,

oh look at her, bless her her heart and I realized it was

me I thought whose braster of those I mean they took on their own own new personality

so yes that and yeah so what else does estrogen to high estrogen make you go through it so high

estrogen mood changes people get real moody irritable yeah do you think things that you never

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