This short conversational video (host Gary Brecka with guest Sage) links common menopausal complaints — brain fog, unexpected mood shifts, and memory lapses — to shortages of hormonal precursors in the body. Using Sage’s anecdote to ground the issue, Brecka explains that hormones require raw materials (e.g., pregnenolone) to be manufactured, and that deficiencies in those precursors can cause multiple hormones to be low simultaneously, producing cognitive and emotional symptoms.
Sage is totally on her game. We built a business together. We've traveled the world together. And she literally couldn't remember one thing.
Not a thing. We sat in the kitchen one night, and you had not done a single thing wrong. And I just looked at you, and for whatever reason, my blood started to boil. You had done absolutely nothing wrong. I don't know why I'm mad at you, but I am. But it's kind of scaring me, and I've never had that happen before.
Lots of women are told that they're fine, but you knew that you were off. You knew that the brain fog was real. The issue with menopause is that lots of things can crash at the same time. Hormones are not just manufactured. Hormones need precursors. There's raw material in a woman's body that are used to make hormones. One of them is called pregnenolone. It's this precursor in the body that acts like a construction material. I don't care how good your contractor is. If you don't deliver materials to the job site, they're not accomplishing anything. And it's the same in a woman's hormonal system. If you don't have the precursors that you need to build other hormones, they become deficient.
