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Welcome to Raising Good Humans. I'm Dr. Aliza Pressman, and today, at long last, I'm having

the follow-up to my conversation with Dr. Sharon Malone, who is an expert in menopause.

She and I started talking a couple of weeks ago. You can listen to that episode.

And then today, I just pulled out the part that I thought was so fascinating. It's the

association between perimenopause and brain functioning. And I'm so obsessed with this

because I had no idea what a huge role estrogen played in our brain. As we move through this

time in life, reminding you that the transition to menopause can last up to 10 years. So we're

talking about this wide window of time during which many of us have tweens or teenagers who

themselves are experiencing changes in their brain development. And I found it so fascinating

that in concert with that, we might be dealing with our own changes in our brain. And how

we can best deal with that, information is so key. So I'll tell you that the reason why

I got so excited about this was because I was at a menopause conference and I was supposed

to be giving a talk about the pause that we take to self-regulate. And it was meant to be

part of a larger conversation about all sorts of changes and what's occurring in our brains

and bodies during this time. And all I was charged with talking about was self-regulation

because that's my lane. And as I was about to go and speak on this stage, I heard someone

else speaking. I heard Dr. Sharon Malone. And Dr. Sharon Malone is among the nation's leading

obstetrician gynecologist with a focus on the specific health challenges associated with menopause.

Dr. Malone brings decades of clinical and real life experience to her treatment of women in

menopausal transition and the post-reproductive years. She was really inspiring and blew my mind.

In addition, a researcher named Dr. Lisa Mascone was also speaking. And what I found mind-blowing

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