Mona SharmaCelebrity nutritionist and wellness advocate

Women’s Hormones Are Being Ignored. Here’s the Truth. ⚠️

15 Apr 2025 · 1 min

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In this video Mona Sharma argues that women’s emotional health—particularly anxiety, depression, irritability, and insomnia—is fundamentally driven by hormonal fluctuations across the menstrual cycle, especially the role of progesterone. She highlights that women are twice as likely to experience depression, points to a dramatic rise in hormone‑related mood disorders, and criticizes the medical establishment for normalizing these symptoms rather than treating the underlying hormonal imbalance.

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We know what hormones are responsible for what emotions, Right? And for women, if we have a cycle that's changing and evolving throughout the month, we talk about moods, how they change throughout the cycle. But our emotions to prevent anxiety and depression, irritability and insomnia in women, it's hormonal, it's progesterone. I mean, no wonder these young women. We have a huge rate of anxiety, depression. Women are twice as likely to experience depression. And for such a long time, doctors have normalized this. We've gotten to a point where hormone imbalance, the rise of depression, numbers that we've never seen before in history.