Dr. Betty Murray explains menopause as a biochemical shift that accelerates aging and narrows your stress tolerance. Brain-retraining practices that promote safety can expand this window and reduce menopause symptoms amplified by the underlying biological changes.
I think looking at perimenopause and menopause, I've always argued that we need to look at it differently, that it's not a life event, but it is, it is an aging event that now changes our biochemistry and accelerates the aging process. And with it comes some of these symptoms that are associated with all these other kinds of complex chronic conditions.
Exactly. And especially with, you know, heightened stress, the heightened stress response, the brain retraining is teaching us to retrain that part of our brain. So we kind of lower that window of where we would normally stress out about something. We call this the window of tolerance. So if you're stressing out about the basic things, then that's going to have an impact on the rest of your nervous system, the rest of the potential symptoms that come as a result of that. By training that to start to feel safer in your environment through these brain retraining practices, we're able to potentially give you the chance to stop having such high reactions to Basic life events that just because of the biology and the changing situation in your body might become more prevalent during the, the menopause transition.
