Today on the root cause medicine podcast.

The regular progesterone we're making throughout menstrual cycles is arguably good.

It has a net benefit effect on metabolic health and it supports thyroid health.

It shelters us from excess androgens because it has an anti-androgen effect,

which is why progesterone can be treatment for PCOS or polycystic ovary syndrome,

which is the high androgens or testosterone in women.

So I think really it starts, in early in paramedopause, when progesterone starts to drop away,

we already start to get some changes to metabolic health, as in a bit more of an insulin

resistance, pushing through potentially destabilizing of thyroid because

a progesterone, not to get too detailed, but one of the things losing progesterone in the early

phases of perimenopause can, in some women, trigger a flare of autoimmune thyroid disease.

Hello, hello, my name is Dr. Carrie Jones, and I am the co-host for today, excited to bring on

my good friend and published author, Dr. Lara Bright and I am the co-host for today, excited to bring on my good friend and published

author, Dr. Lara Brighton. Today we are talking about one of her best-selling books,

Metabolism Repair for Women, but she has multiple books that are best-selling. She also sits

on the advisory board for multiple women's health companies. Now, we're talking about metabolism because metabolism

is cellular energy. It's the energy in the cell so you can burn fat, so you can grow hair,

so you can have energy, so your skin can feel good, so you can repair everything that's going on,

so your mood can be healthy. And if your metabolism is not flexible,

if your metabolism is not working, if you have something called insulin resistance, then you're

going to struggle in all those areas of your life. Now, Dr. Laura has an entire book dedicated

that we went through, but she's going to talk about the key areas that bring on metabolic and flexibility,

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