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Today we are discussing women's hormones and will focus on perimenopause,

which is the beginning stage of menopause. Perimenopause is often the time of life when many

women experience more anxiety and irritability. And I think many husbands out there are, you know, nodding their heads or

significant others are like, yep, that sounds about right, especially on the irritability part, right?

The reality check is that, or the reality of this is that women generally lack knowledge about perimenopause and menopause.

And so sometimes they don't realize why all this is going on.

So the National Institute of Health, the NIH, published a study on June 26th of 2022 that found that women are usually not taught about menopause and that

many general practitioners have very little knowledge about menopause. So all these changes are

happening and we don't know what's going on a lot of times. Perimenopause and menopause have affected approximately,

or are affecting approximately 1 billion women worldwide.

But for the most part, women have very little awareness of symptoms.

Actually, to overcome the lack of knowledge about menopause and perimenopause,

in 2019, the United Kingdom Department of Education made it mandatory for menopause education

to be included in schools. So that's progress. Absolutely. Today, we are going to discuss symptoms that many women experience during perimenopause

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