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Good morning.

We are so excited to have Katerina Wilk with us this morning.

She is a medical writer and author of Perry

menopower a book about the Perry menopause period that spreads around the

globe excitingly enough we met over I believe Instagram and we were really delighted to have you on the

podcast this morning.

Thank you for having me.

I'm really really glad that you want me on the podcast.

Yeah, so out of just out of curiosity,

it was it through your own process of, you know, I always say aging in reverse

that you became interested in a peri menopause, was it due to the fact

that you had a really negative experience with perimenopause?

What was the impetus for the book?

Yeah, I actually had a really bad experience. I was like 42, 43 years old when it started for me and as it began I had like severe insomnia and the problem was that when I went to the to the

medical care everyone wanted to to make me believe that I was depressed and I

was burned out and they wanted to give me antidepressants and everything.

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