So today I want to talk about what is menopause really?

Well it's simply a situation where you're running out of eggs. A woman has about 400 eggs and every month the egg gets released right around age 51, maybe a little bit earlier, a little bit later.

You ran out of that last egg, you're done, no more menstruation, no more pregnancy, it's time to party, right?

Well, then comes the hot flashes, the vaginal dryness, the vaginal atrophy, mood changes, weight gain, loss of libido, bone loss and atrophy.

So just when you thought things were going to be great, you got all these things to deal with.

So what actually is happening is you're getting a shift in hormones and there's three hormones that are involved.

You have estrogen, testosterone and progesterone and these are not accurate, but I'm just going to show you the pattern typically before menopause versus after you're going to have a drop of estrogen about 50, maybe 40 to 50%.

Testosterone is going to drop about 50%. But check this out, progesterone is going to drop between 70 and 90%.

So progesterone is the one that really crashes and burns.

Progesterone counters and buffers estrogen, they work together.

So forgetting this massive drop in progesterone versus estrogen, we have this ratio that's out of balance.

It's going to make estrogen appear dominant in the body and this is why you have some of the symptoms right here because it's estrogen dominance.

When in reality, it is lower, but this is the one that actually makes it appear to be high in the body and creates a lot of problems.

Now the other thing you have to realize is that you have a backup mechanism, a plan B and that's the adrenals.

The adrenals actually make these three hormones too.

And they're supposed to act as a backup to the ovaries and give you the right amount of these hormones.

Of course, you don't need the same amount of hormones as before menopause because you're not going to have baby.

But here's the issue, if these adrenals are weak going in the menopause and they're not able to back up the ovaries appropriately,

you're going to start seeing problems with these hormones because you're going to be deficient and you can start experiencing these symptoms right here.

It happens all the time. In fact, 70% of women after menopause develop hot flashes.

So in reality, all these symptoms are not normal, but if the adrenals are weak, that's when you really have the big problems.

So what you really need to do is support the adrenals before menopause and try to keep your stress as low as possible.

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