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128: Menopause Hormones: Beyond Hot Flashes, Myths, and “Just Aging”
If you’ve ever been told hot flashes are “just part of aging,” we’re calling that out for what it is: an incomplete story that keeps women stuck in unnecessary suffering. We sit down and get brutally practical about the hormones most people reduce to sex and reproduction, even though estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone influence your brain, mood, sleep, joints, muscle, bone density, cardiovascular health, and day-to-day drive. When ovaries start to go offline, the swings can feel like a roller coaster, and it can start earlier than you think.
We break down what each hormone does, what…
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