I ran to be thin and I ate to be thin. And I actually really am proud of changing that thought

pattern in my mind. And so I do way more than I would like to even. And definitely way more than I was in

my 20s. But the way that I care for my body and the way that I fuel my body and all the food groups

and the nutrient dense foods that I eat now and how I exercise.

Gosh, I wish I could have given that to 20-year-old meat.

Welcome back to the show. This is a great one today. We could actually call this show everything you ever wanted to know about perimenopause, but we're afraid to ask, or everything you ever needed to know about perimenopause, but it wasn't even on your radar to ask. We're going to cover it. I'm going to get a

little rantey because I feel very passionate about one part of it. We are digging into it with Dr.

Michaela Albertson, and it is so fun. If you ever wondered, why am I just not in the mood?

Why do I walk in a room and forget things? Why am I having hot flashes? Why am I

fatigued? Why in the world do I wake up at 3 a.m. or 3.30 a.m. and I can't get back to

sleep. We have answers for you. We have solutions. And I give a little bit of the back story

about why women have been denied this basic medical treatment for so long, based on data

that never should have been in the protocols. Again, I'm getting ranty, just thinking about it.

We have a great show with Dr. Michaela. We're going to have fun. I'm going to give you all

sorts of information. We're going to get into it. Now, before we dive in, I want to share. And now, without further ado, here's my new friend, Dr. Michaela Albertson. Michaela, you have written an amazing book. Everything I wish I could tell you about midlife. As a 48-year-old woman, I read this quickly. I read it on the couch,

surrounded by all my boys and my husband while they watched football. And I was like,

I wish I had this book 10 years ago. Sure. It's phenomenal. One thing I want to really focus in

on this conversation is paramedopause because not enough people understand it. There are so

many misconceptions out there about what to do. What do you feel like is some of the biggest

misconceptions women have about it? And so I think one of the biggest misconceptions is like,

you absolutely don't have to experience any symptoms or have any, like everything is fixable.

That's the most frustrating part for me. So I'm trying to offer with this book like a more

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