Menopause isn't just losing your period. Hormones drop to near-zero, causing muscle and bone loss, reduced heart protection, and a 25% reduction in brain energy during the transition. Understanding these systemic changes matters for women considering natural approaches.
Before we go further, what would you say to someone who said, "But I wanna do this naturally"?
I think it's important when someone says, "I wanna do this naturally," to educate what it means. I think for a long time, what we believed menopause was, was that we don't have a period anymore. We're not cycling anymore. But what inherently does that mean? I don't think that women realize that that means that their hormones are down to bare minimum, down to the lowest of low, pretty much nothing. Right? This is— these hormones just don't control our boobs and our uterus and ovaries. They are whole body hormones. As these hormones decline, and in perimenopause it is erratic, it's not some slow leisurely stroll where hormones are slowly declining, no, it is chaos. And we know that when these hormones are not binding to those receptor sites, that we are losing muscle, we are losing bone, our cardiovascular protection is compromised, our cellular protection is compromised, our brain is massively remodeling remodeling. We know that we are, we are losing and decreasing about 25% of the energy in our brain during the perimenopause transition. So I think it's important that women understand what inherently is happening. It's not just a period loss. It's not just no more cycles. It is a full, complete remodeling of your body without these hormones. And the research is clear, it's not going somewhere good, right?
