McCall McPhersonFounder, Modern Thyroid Clinic.

Menopause Skin: Dryness, Hormones, and Solutions #shorts

4 Nov 2025 · 1 min

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Short video by McCall McPherson explaining that perimenopause/menopause can cause skin dryness. The speaker attributes dryness to a drop in progesterone (which normally stimulates sebaceous gland oil production), age- or thyroid-related reductions in T4 and T3 (impairing sebaceous and eccrine gland function), and warns that vasomotor symptoms are sometimes attributed solely to estrogen decline when thyroid dysfunction may be involved.

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Menopause is definitely having a moment. And so I'm so glad that there's that awareness around it, because when you go into perimenopause, you start to have, most notably, a shift in progesterone. And progesterone stimulates your sebaceous glands to create oil. So the skin may not be as oily or it may be more dry than it used to be. And also, as a function of age, just like any organ, you can also start to see a decrease in whether it's thyroid hormone being secreted, T4, or the ability of that T4 to become T3, which is a more active hormone. And so when you don't have that happening, you can also have dry skin, because thyroid hormone is able to support your gland production, your sebaceous and your eccrine gland production, so you can have dry skin there as well. And so all of these things are happening at the same time. You don't know what to attribute it to. Now, if you're going through menopause, you might attribute all of these vasomotor symptoms to a decline in estrogen, when it actually may be a thyroid dysfunction.