Dr. Betty Murray explains that menopause involves a dramatic drop in estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone, not a lifestyle problem fixable with supplements. She compares the hormonal shift to chemical castration, arguing it fundamentally changes women's physiology in ways that require more than empowerment rhetoric.
True empowerment does not come from a trendy supplement or somebody shaming you and telling you that you need to work your lifestyle a little bit better to get, you know, to basically replace a hormone imbalance that is actual, basically castration of a woman, right? We lose so much of the production of estrogen and progesterone, and testosterone is on its decline too. It just doesn't wildly vary in menopause, but relative to where it was in your 20s, it's often lower. But we have basically gone through a chemical castration at that point. And we have to understand that that affects everything. It's why we don't castrate men, because they recognize that the impact was extraordinary on men's physiology. The truth is, it's physiologically the same to women as well.
