So many women, I think, are running on like a kind of a 50-50 battery where they don't really have true, consistent, vital energy, but they still have pushed through.

I mean, we can't wait around for society to start acknowledging women's life transitions.

Like, we just need to do it our way within our own families and our own

communities. It's just that before age 35, you've really got kind of youth on your side to sort

of bolster you up for the various nutritional, digestive, hormonal deficits that you might have.

So if women are older than that, it's going to behoove

them to just, you know, just take more care.

Hello, it's me, Amber. Welcome back to medicine stories. Have you noticed metabolic changes around age 35 and or 42?

Does perimenopause even exist? Is there an ideal childbearing window for women's bodies?

Why are humans one of the only species to experience menopause? And why does it only exist in other

mammalian species when they have a matriarchal structure? Dr. Susie Hazen, doctor of Chinese

medicine and my closest companion in healing from midlife burnout gives us the traditional Chinese medicine

perspective on the seven-year framework for girls and women's life transitions today.

If you're new, Suez and I have been friends for about 17 years.

We live in the same small northern California town.

We have spent thousands of hours, thousands of hours in private conversation.

We like talking.

We like talking to each other.

We like talking about health.

We like talking about women's bodies and women's wellness.

Suze is the mom of two boys.

I am the mom of two girls.

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