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How Perimenopause Can Trigger Unexpected Anxiety in Women #WomensHealth #Shorts #MenopauseSex

18 May 2024 · 1 min

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Short YouTube transcript explaining that perimenopause is a period of hormonal fluctuation where women can experience new-onset anxiety, depression, and brain fog. The speaker attributes these changes to decreasing estrogen acting on brain estrogen receptors located in the hippocampus, amygdala, and hypothalamus.

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So for perimenopause, remember, is a time of great flux. You know, our hormones are going up and down. Even said that women that did not have anxiety or depression before can develop new onset anxiety and depression. And that's because of the estrogen receptors in the brain, the hippocampus, the amygdala, and the hypothalamus that carry the receptors for estrogen. And when they are no longer getting that estrogen that they need, that's what leads to brain fog and also to that new onset anxiety and depression.
That definitely makes sense. I mean, I'm in my mid-50s right now, and I definitely went through menopause around 50.