A short YouTube segment by Dr. Tabatha Barber explaining common health changes during menopause. The speaker links declining estrogen to increased blood pressure, loss of muscle strength and endurance, joint and ligament problems (notably frozen shoulder), and other pains such as knee and back pain.
So by and large, the majority of women who transition into menopause have elevated blood pressure. So we start to see frozen shoulder, that's a really common thing. All kinds of joint and ligament issues, knee pain, back pain, that's a very common issue. And then we also start to see we lose our muscle strength and then our endurance and our cardiovascular system changes, and so our blood pressure starts to increase. We see this a lot when women are declining, having declining levels of estrogen.
