The first thing that happens is that your progesterone starts to decline.

You might notice spotting before and after period, but it also comes with certain symptoms,

like breast tenderness, anxiety, increased stress, estrogen then declines and becomes more

and more erratic.

That's when you move into the mid-stages and start

having those other vasimotor symptoms like hot flashes, more severe heart palpitations,

night sweats, sleep disturbances, almost changes everything. It affects everything.

Now, could an app help you make sense of your perimenopause

symptoms? Well, Dr. Alina Bergland feels that this is the future of empowered, personalized healthcare.

I'm Liz Earle and this is the Lizar Well-Being Show, the podcast helping us all have a better

second half. And my big mission is to find ways

for all of us to thrive in our later life by investing in our health and our well-being today.

And this episode is brought to you in partnership with natural cycles. Now, October is

International Menopause Month and we would be remiss not to spend some time focusing on the transition leading up to it, peri menopause.

Well, Alina is the co-founder of Natural Cycles, a brilliant women's health company that developed the first FDA- cleared contraception app.

Alina was formerly a CERN physicist, so there's real clinical rigor and cutting-edge technology behind NC birth control, a hormone-free

method of family planning. So if looking to prevent pregnancy, the app analyzes body temperature

data to determine your daily fertility status.

And now the app is evolving with Alina's own life experiences.

Moving into perimenopause herself, the Natural Cycles app is expanding to help women make sense of this midlife transition by analyzing cycle patterns and

symptom changes within the NC perimenopause mode. Now, if you, after hearing this chat with

Alina, would like 15% off the annual plan at natural cycles.com, do use code Liz Loves at the checkout. So then, how can tracking

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