Today on the root cause medicine podcast.

You have to look at women in their 40s because we're seeing women are going through

menopause or menopausal transitions earlier and earlier.

And the longer the fecundity, the longer the duration of time that a woman is fertile,

there's a decrease in all morbidity and all mortality.

And in women that go through menopause earlier than

age 40, it literally doubles their risk for strokes. Like we could go through so many chronic

diseases and help diminish that if we could protect women in these vulnerable years.

Hello, I'm your co-host for today, Dr. Carrie Jones, and I am so excited to bring on the Dr. Bridget Briggs.

She is a board-certified family medicine doctor in California who specializes in geriatrics and women's health.

She's also a phenomenal speaker and educator. I've heard her multiple times talk about methylation and

menopause, the effect effective hormones on the GI track.

So I had to have her on to talk through both of these things.

As women go through paramedepause and menopause and their estrogen changes, it creates

body-wide symptoms.

And as I said, I've heard Dr. Briggs mention the complete change it has on the skin, the complete

change it has on the brain, the complete change it has on the GI track, and we talk through

the effect of methylation. Now you may know of methylation through the idea of MTHR,

so it's important that you listen up to understand what's going on. Before we get started, though, I want to talk to you about something that comes up pretty often on this podcast.

And that, of course, are supplements.

There is a lot of confusion around supplements.

And you only want to take the best quality that uses top tier certified manufacturers

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