A short video by Dr. Tabatha Barber explaining that declining estrogen levels during perimenopause and menopause reduce estrogen’s anti-inflammatory effects, triggering immune responses and increasing risk of aches, pains, and chronic inflammation from exposures that previously did not cause persistent inflammation.
Estrogen levels are one of the factors that trigger this immune response or prevent it. Because when you go into menopause or you're in this perimenopausal transition and your estrogen levels are dropping way lower than they have been since you were a child, your immune system responds. It also increases your risk of developing aches and pains and other things, because estrogen is just anti inflammatory and so we feel more inflammation. So things that used to not cause chronic inflammation, they start to show up and really are exacerbated with this lack of estrogen.
