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You know, it's very strange to me that someone going through menopause would have to

suffer with pothlashes, night sweats, vaginal dryness, decreased libido, anxiety, depression.

I mean, that's just weird. And we're told that these symptoms are normal. It's part of

life. We just have to cope with it and accept it because your sex hormones naturally decrease

with age by a factor of at least 50 percent because you're no longer having functional

ovaries anymore, right? So the question is, is this true? And the answer is no. It's absolutely

false information. When you go through menopause, you have two backup organs. They're called

the adrenals. And the adrenals make all of the hormones that the ovaries make, okay?

All these sex hormones, estrogen, progesterone, testosterone, and they make a lot of other

hormones too, like cortisol, aldosterone, DHEA, things like that. So the way it's supposed

to work is during menopause, you have a decreased ovarian function and the adrenals are

supposed to back it up and start making these hormones. And no, it's not normal to have

any symptoms when you're going through menopause. So what is the problem, okay? Well, take a

look at this chart, right? Here we have a chart of the metabolic pathways through the adrenals,

the different layers of the adrenal, and the different hormones that are created by your

adrenals. You have mineral corticoids, glucocorticoids, androgen, estrogen. All of these hormones

stem from this one thing, this one raw material. Check it out right here, cholesterol. That's

right. The very thing that people are telling you to avoid because it causes heart disease,

right? So at the expense of lowering cholesterol to the diet, a diet recommendation, or medication,

boy, are your adrenals going to suffer? Because that cholesterol is a required material to not only

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