S11 EP5: Navigating Hormonal Highs and Lows at All Ages with Dr. Chrisandra Shufelt
The Thick Thighs Save Lives Podcast
Constantly Varied Gear
4.9 • 716 Ratings
🗓️ 22 October 2024
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Hormones are chemical messengers that coordinate the functioning of our bodies. We send a lot of messages these days and we all know what can happen when we forget to hit send or it goes to the wrong place. And we aren’t all doctors and hormonal health can feel mysterious and unmanageable. The one thing we all seem to intuitively know is when something feels off. Scientists know of more than 50 hormones in the body but today we are looking at estrogen across a lifespan.
Our guest is Dr. Chrisandra Shufelt, a women’s health internist and a certified menopause practitioner. She is the past president of the Menopause Society and an expert in the area of women’s hormonal health. Listen to what Dr. Shufelt has to say about a reversible condition that results in irregular or absent periods, called functional hypothalamic amenorrhea, that can put your heart health at risk. Do you feel undereducated when it comes to the loss of estrogen during perimenopause and menopause? Dr. Shufelt has some advice for you, because dealing with hormonal issues can feel like being on a roller coaster ride. But you are not alone.
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(00:00:00) Introducing Dr. Chrisandra Shufelt, women’s health expert
(00:03:37) Dr. Shufelt’s path to women’s hormonal health
(00:06:13) Advice for people ages 10 to 25, when it comes to low estrogen levels
(00:14:03) What is FHA and the potential harm that may come with it?
(00:17:40) 1 in 3 women with FHA have endothelial dysfunction, a heart health concern
(00:20:30) Kelsea’s personal experience with FHA, a common condition
(00:22:25) Do you have FHA? Join the online international registry. Don’t have a diagnosis? How to get one.
(00:25:18) How nutrition affects hormone health and the role weight loss drugs play
(00:33:45) Advice for women entering perimenopause who feel undereducated.
(00:42:44) Advice for women experiencing body composition changes during peri and menopause.
(00:47:24) Dr. Shufelt’s favorite homeopathic and pharmaceutical remedies to alleviate hormonal issues.
(00:51:48) Where to find and hear more from Dr. Shufelt.
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| 0:00.0 | I always say this. Women are lucky that we have a menstrual cycle. Yes, I know some women are, you know, |
| 0:04.9 | yay, I don't have a menstrual cycle, but it is our signal for health because the same thing can happen in men. |
| 0:09.8 | It usually isn't until they fracture or until they try to have their partner get pregnant that they realize that there's an infertility issue. |
| 0:18.4 | This is where women's health has an advantage that we do have |
| 0:21.0 | a menstrual cycle to actually monitor every month and understand that pattern. |
| 0:29.3 | Hello, everyone, and welcome back to the Thick Thigh Save Lives podcast. I'm Kelsey. And I'm |
| 0:33.9 | Rachel. Guys, we have the hormone episode you have been waiting for. If you are a woman, this is for you. |
| 0:41.0 | If you know a woman, this is for you. |
| 0:44.4 | We have the be all and all of experts on hormone health. |
| 0:50.0 | Cresandra Shufelt is a professor and chair of the Division of General Internal Medicine at the Mayo Clinic. |
| 0:57.5 | You're in Jacksonville, right, Cresandra? |
| 1:00.0 | Correct, yes, Florida. |
| 1:01.3 | And she is also the associate director of the Women's Health Research Center for Mayo Clinic Enterprise. |
| 1:07.3 | She is a health internist for women, a certified menopause practitioner, and the president, |
| 1:16.7 | guys, we brought you the president of the menopause society, okay? You guys asked, |
| 1:24.0 | we delivered, you want to know everything about hormone health, and you have not been given |
| 1:30.1 | the access. And we know, you know, having spoken to our community, that they feel that this topic |
| 1:38.8 | is very undereducated for the typical woman. So we brought you the best of the best. She's got 200 |
| 1:47.8 | publications in women's health and has co-authored a ton of scientific position statements on both |
| 1:54.9 | metapause and hormone therapy. So the best of the best, Christandra, thank you so much for being here. Welcome to the podcast. |
| 2:03.8 | Thank you for having me. Thank you for having me. And it's a passionate topic of mine. And I think |
| 2:08.7 | at the end of the day, everyone needs to know about hormones, whether it's whether when you start |
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