What I found most surprising is the symptoms that I typically thought about in relation to

menopause, and this is me as a 48 year old woman, that menopause is all about the night

sweats, the hot flashes. Actually, we found they were the least common symptoms. They were still

common in about 50% of women, but the most common symptoms were the symptoms that are related

to our brain function. So they were

things like brain fog, memory loss, anxiety, depression, mood swings, sleep disturbances.

So about 85% of women were having these kind of symptoms, the brain fog, the memory loss,

the sleep disturbances. That's a huge amount of peri and postmenopause or women having these symptoms.

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Hello, friends. Welcome back to another episode of Better with Dr. Stephanie. Tis me,

your host, Dr. Stephanie is Tima. And today I am speaking with Professor Sarah Berry, all on nutrition, science, and how

to navigate the online world of social media as well as through menopause. If you have not

heard of Sarah, Sarah is a professor at King's College,

London, and the chief scientist at Zoe, which is a science and nutrition company. She is an academic

leader in nutrition science, and she has run more than 35 human nutrition studies, and she's

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