Dr. Betty Murray explains how Amygdala-Insula Retraining helps retrain the brain's threat-detection system during perimenopause. Dropping estrogen makes the brain hypervigilant, triggering hyperarousal, sleep disruption, and pain. AIR teaches you to recognize and interrupt these threat loops to regain control.
amygdala-insula retraining is a mind-body intervention that basically retrains how the brain perceives threat, like the threat detection system, which is basically what the amygdala and the insula do and how we respond to it. And what we do know is that when we lose estrogen in particular, but progesterone and testosterone, the brain during perimenopause can potentially become hypervigilant because of those changes in hormones. And so you might get hyperarousal or sleep disruption or fatigue or pain. And the idea is that AIR teaches your body how to recognize and interrupt those loops so you can have some agency over the experience.
