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177: "I Don't Feel Like Myself": Hormones, Stress, Perimenopause & the Invisible Load Women Carry
"I don't feel like myself anymore."
Dr. Shawn Tassone hears some version of that sentence from women all the time. But what does it actually mean?
Is it perimenopause? Low estrogen or progesterone? Testosterone? Thyroid dysfunction? Chronic stress? Burnout? Postpartum changes? A struggling relationship? Loss of identity?
Or is it possible that more than one of those things can be true at the same time?
In this episode of Confessions of a Male Gynecologist, Dr. Tassone connects three seemingly unrelated conversations — Dolly Parton, the Lindsay Clancy case, and the recent pastor's wife…
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