Ep. 237 Perimenopause and Menopause: What You Didn't Know with Dr. Felice Gersh

Everyday Wellness with Cynthia Thurlow ™

Cynthia Thurlow

Alternative Health, Nutrition, Science, Life Sciences, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2022

⏱️ 84 minutes

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I’m honored to reconnect with Dr. Felice Gersh today! She is a multi-award-winning physician with dual board certification in OB-GYN and Integrative Medicine. We connected once before in Episode 221, where we spoke about PCOS and metabolic health. Today, Dr. Gersh joins me to dive into perimenopause and menopause. We discuss various issues surrounding the Women’s Health Initiative and talk about estrogen as a family of hormones, estrogen-mimicking chemicals, synthetic hormones, and oral contraceptives. We get into the importance of thyroid function, the pro-inflammatory state of a loss of estrogen in perimenopause and menopause, and the importance of nutrition and exercise for the metabolism. We also speak about the lesser-known changes that occur in menopause, including changes in body odor, constipation, sarcopenia, osteoporosis, and vocal changes. I intend to invite Dr. Gersh back again to discuss women and mitochondrial health, and then once again to talk about her latest book, Menopause: The Fifty Things You Need to Know. Stay tuned to find out what menopause really is, and what it does to a woman’s metabolic system. IN THIS EPISODE YOU WILL LEARN: Dr. Gersh discusses the Women’s Health Initiative study and its devastating effects. The difference between synthetic and bioidentical hormones. How chronic diseases of aging can be delayed when hormones are incorporated along with other lifestyle refinements. What do hormones do? Why every immune cell in the body has receptors for vital hormones. Why menopause cannot be defined by a specific moment in time. Changes that occur physiologically during the perimenopause years. How hormones can change the perimenopause paradigm entirely. Why perimenopause translates into many sleep issues. Why phytoestrogens are nature’s gift to women. Connect with Cynthia Thurlow Follow on Twitter, Instagram & LinkedIn Check out Cynthia’s website Connect with Dr. Felice Gersh On her website: Integrative Medical Group of Irvine On Instagram All of Dr. Gersh’s books are available on Amazon Episode 221 on PCOS with Dr. Felice Gersh Go to www.toxicology.gov to see all the ingredients in birth control pills listed as endocrine disruptors.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Everyday Wellness Podcast. I'm your host, Nurse Practitioner Cynthia Thurlow.
0:07.0	This podcast is designed to educate, empower, and inspire you to achieve your health and wellness goals.
0:14.0	My goal and intent is to provide you with the best content and conversations from leaders in the
0:19.2	health and wellness industry each week and impact over a million lives.
0:23.4	Today at the honor of reconnecting with Dr. Felice Gersh. We connected earlier this year on
0:34.0	episode 221 discussing polycystic ovarian syndrome and metabolic health. Today she
0:39.7	joined me to deep dive into perimenopause and Menopause. We spoke at length about the issues surrounding the
0:46.5	Women's Health Initiative, how that has created an a fearful environment not only for providers, but also
0:52.1	women with a tremendous amount of
0:53.9	misinformation. We chatted about estrogen as a family of hormones, estrogen mimicking
0:59.6	chemicals, the role of synthetic hormones including calling oral
1:03.9	contraceptives endocrine disrupting chemicals. The importance of thyroid
1:08.9	function, the pro-inflammatory state of a loss of estrogen in perimenopause and menopause the importance of
1:16.5	lifestyle including nutrition and exercise to help with metabolism.
1:22.5	We also spoke specifically about less common known changes
1:27.2	that occur in menopause, including body odor changes,
1:30.9	constipation, sarcoopoeia, osteoporosis, and vocal changes. I will definitely have Dr. Gersh
1:38.0	back again. I hope our next podcast will be focused on women and mitochondrial health and we will probably have a fourth in
1:44.7	2023 that will be encompassing of her newest book. Menopause the 50 things you need
1:50.0	to know. It is one of my favorite resources to recommend to patients. I hope that you will find it as beneficial as I do.
1:59.4	Dr. Grish, on our last podcast we really laser focused in on polycystic ovarian syndrome and you
2:05.1	graciously agreed to come back again and now talk about middle age and perimenopause
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