How Menopause Changes Your Health Risks #shorts

23 Oct 2026 · 1 min

Watch on YouTube

0:54

In this short video, Dr. Tabatha Barber explains that the drop in estrogen during menopause fundamentally alters a woman's physiology. Even with hormone replacement, estrogen levels never return to pre‑menopausal levels, leading to shifts in the immune, cardiovascular, and metabolic systems. She notes that many women develop new autoimmune conditions such as Hashimoto's thyroiditis and celiac disease after menopause. Additionally, the risk of heart disease, heart attacks, and strokes rises sharply, with stroke and heart disease becoming the leading causes of death among menopausal women. Menopause also increases insulin resistance, raising the likelihood of developing type 2 diabetes.

Chapters

Before we go, I want to talk about that because menopause is this big transition in a woman's healthspan. Yeah. So when that estrogen goes away, even if you are on replacement levels, you're still never getting the same amount that you had before menopause. And so your immune system reacts differently, your cardiovascular system, all your systems, they act different. You are like a different person after menopause. And so what we see is autoimmune disease pop up out of nowhere. I've never had Hashimoto's and now I have it. I've never had celiac, now I have it. Heart disease rises drastically, the risk of insulin resistance and developing diabetes, having a heart attack and stroke, which is actually the number one killer of menopausal women. These things happen.