You're 50, And Your Body Is Changing: Time For The Talk

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🗓️ 17 October 2022

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Perimenopause, the period of transition to menopause, is still a largely misunderstood chapter of reproductive life. It brings about both physical and mental health changes that patients might not hear about from their doctors. Emily talks with health correspondent Rhitu Chatterjee about perimenopause, and how to advocate for yourself as you're going through it.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Shortwave from NPR.
0:04.6	Hey everybody, Emily Quang here.
0:07.0	This episode we're talking about a special time in a person's life.
0:13.4	When their body goes through a lot of hormonal changes,
0:17.5	and no, we are not talking about puberty.
0:20.8	We're talking about life on the other side of the reproductive rainbow.
0:24.6	We're talking about menopause and perimenopause specifically.
0:28.3	When I was nine, I got the talk all about what's going to happen to my body when puberty kicks in.
0:33.5	But no one gives you the talk for perimenopause.
0:37.1	No one sits you down in your 30s and is like, hey, this is going to happen.
0:40.5	It's going to go like this.
0:42.1	This is what you're going to feel is totally fine.
0:44.2	Here's some resources.
0:45.5	Here's some ice cream.
0:46.5	Nobody does that and that's a huge, huge problem.
0:49.6	Yeah.
0:50.0	And our message to listeners is that this chapter of life is navigable.
0:54.9	Exactly.
0:55.8	And we have health correspondent Ritu Chatterjee here to help.
0:59.2	Hi, Emily.
0:59.9	Hi.
1:00.6	So perimenopause is experienced by a lot of people.
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