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Is It Really Your Hormones? Estrogen, Metabolism & Midlife
What if the symptoms we keep calling “hormonal” are telling a much bigger physiologic story?
A woman in her 40s presents with fatigue, weight gain, poor sleep, brain fog, anxiety, low libido, and changing menstrual cycles. It would be easy to call it perimenopause, order a hormone panel, or start talking about “estrogen dominance.”
But is estrogen really the whole story?
In this episode of The Integrative Clinician, Dr. Sheri Erwin takes a deeper look at midlife hormone symptoms through the lens of integrative clinical reasoning.
We explore a fundamental idea:
Estrogen does not operate in…
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