What is Menopause... Really

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Dr. Eric Berg

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🗓️ 10 May 2020

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Today I’m going to cover what menopause really is as well as a few things that may help with it.

What is menopause?

It’s a situation where a woman is running out of eggs. Around age 51, you don’t have any more eggs left. This means no more menstruation or pregnancy.

Symptoms of menopause:

• Hot flashes

• Vaginal dryness

• Vaginal atrophy

• Mood changes

• Weight gain

• Loss of libido

• Bone loss

• Atrophy

What actually is happening with menopause is you’re getting a shift in hormones. There are three hormones that are involved: estrogen, testosterone, and progesterone. After menopause, you have a drop in these hormones, especially progesterone. Progesterone works with estrogen—it counters estrogen.

This massive drop in progesterone can cause estrogen dominance symptoms even though estrogen has dropped as well. Progesterone makes estrogen seem higher because it drops so much more. Progesterone is really behind many of the issues that occur during menopause.

You have a back-up mechanism called your adrenals. The adrenals also make estrogen, testosterone, and progesterone. But, if the adrenals are weak going into menopause and they aren’t able to back up the ovaries appropriately, you may start seeing problems with these hormones. In reality, the menopause symptoms above are not normal. If the adrenals are weak, that’s when you start to see problems. It’s important to support the adrenals before you get into menopause and try to keep your stress low.

Natural things you can do to help with menopause:

1. Support the adrenals

2. Do not go on a low-fat diet

3. Counter high cortisol

4. Increase progesterone

5. Vitamin E

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Dr. Berg, 51 years of age is a chiropractor who specializes in weight loss through nutritional & natural methods. His private practice is located in Alexandria, Virginia. His clients include senior officials in the U.S. government & the Justice Department, ambassadors, medical doctors, high-level executives of prominent corporations, scientists, engineers, professors, and other clients from all walks of life. He is the author of The 7 Principles of Fat Burning.

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0:00.0	So if you guys have any questions whatsoever about keto or intermittent fasting, whether you're starting
0:05.3	keto as a new person or just need to debug your program or you have a question about a product,
0:10.6	call one of our keto consultants. They'll be able to help you. Call 540-299-1557. That's 540-299-1557.
0:21.6	Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Keto and Interminute Fasting Podcast, where Dr. Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight. So today I want to talk about what is menopause really. Well, it's simply a situation
0:51.4	where you're running out of eggs. A woman has about 400 eggs and every month the egg
0:58.1	gets released right around age 51, maybe a little bit earlier, a little bit later. You ran out of
1:03.4	that last egg. You're done. No more menstruation, no more pregnancy. It's time to party, right?
1:10.3	Well, then comes the hot flashes, the vaginal
1:13.8	dryness, the vaginal atrophy, mood changes, weight gain, loss of libido, bone loss, and
1:20.9	atrophy. So just when you thought things were going to be great, you got all these things to
1:25.7	deal with. So what actually is happening is you're getting a
1:28.9	shift in hormones, and there's three hormones that are involved. You have estrogen, testosterone,
1:34.9	and progesterone. And these are not accurate, but I'm just going to show you the pattern. Typically,
1:40.4	before menopause versus after, you're going to have a drop of estrogen about 50,
1:45.2	maybe 40 to 50 percent. Testosterone is going to drop about 50 percent. But check this out.
1:52.7	Progesterone is going to drop between 70 and 90 percent. So progesterone is the one that
1:59.8	really crashes and burns. Progestrone counters and buffers estrogen.
2:05.8	They work together. So for getting this massive drop in progesterone versus estrogen, we have this
2:12.5	ratio that's out of balance. It's going to make estrogen appear dominant in the body. And this is why you have
2:21.3	some of the symptoms right here because it's estrogen dominance. When in reality, it is lower,
2:26.9	but this is the one that actually makes it appear to be high in the body and creates a lot of problems.
2:32.8	Now, the other thing you have to realize is that you have a
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