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Balancing Hormones in Menopause...What comes first?

8 Sept 2023 · 1 min

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A short transcript from Dr. Tabatha Barber's YouTube video discussing hormonal changes during perimenopause and menopause. The speaker emphasizes that unopposed estrogen commonly occurs in perimenopause, that adding progesterone can alleviate symptoms during the transition, and that patients later choose whether to use estrogen replacement or discontinue progesterone as they enter menopause and focus on other systems (e.g., adrenals).

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It's not all about protecting your uterus. Yes, we need to make sure that you don't have unopposed estrogen, but during this perimenopausal time, you are getting unopposed estrogen and the gynecologists aren't realizing that. So you would feel so much better if you got on some progesterone during this transition to help you through. And then when you no longer are making your own estrogen, you can make a decision. At that point, do I want to add in estrogen and have my hormones replaced, or do I now want to transition off of the progesterone because I'm no longer needing it because of this crazy estrogen issue and now I'm just going to go into menopause and focus on my adrenal glands and my other systems?