A low-carbohydrate diet is the single most important lifestyle change during menopause, meaning cutting back on bread, pasta, rice, and sugary foods. The shift should be monitored over four months to see how it affects hormone balance.
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What are the lifestyle things that you're recommending women take on, especially starting in perimenopause, but proceeding through to when they're formally menopausal that help?
I would say that the most singular important thing that anyone can do for their health, of course, balancing your hormones is, is number one in my book, being a hormone, you know, person here. It's, it's lower the carbs, lower the carbs. And, and the carbs would be, of course, bread, pasta, crackers, anything with sugar in it. Rice, potatoes. So that's very important, and that should be measured on every patient. It takes 4 months to lower it, but it, it, it should be looked at for every patient. So that's absolutely number one lifestyle is eating and diet.