Lori Harder talks about perimenopause and how plummeting estrogen forces your brain to rewire itself. The result: hot flashes, night sweats, memory problems, mood swings, and that feeling of lost drive she calls losing your sparkle.
What is happening to her hormones in perimenopause, they are declining. Estrogen is the star of the show. And as she starts to erratically decline, the brain's like, where'd you go? Wait, I need you. And so the brain begins this massive reorganization of trying to get by without its most critical regulator. That's why we see a bulk of perimenopausal symptoms being brain related, including hot flashes and night sweats, including sleep issues and memory issues, brain fog and alertness, mood swings, depression, anxiety, all of this.
I feel like this is so empowering for me to know right now. I'm 44, and I feel like what.
I notice.
Right now is just having to work a little harder for my drive. You can feel like you lost your quote unquote sparkle, which is probably just your estrogen.
Yeah, it's your estrogen. Yeah, she's the sparkle. She's the sparkle.
