Girls Are Growing Up Faster. This Is What's Causing It.
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Dr. Terri discusses the alarming trend of young girls entering puberty earlier and the factors contributing to this issue with Dr. Tara Scott.
Your Daughter Shouldn't Be Starting Her Period at Nine Something is happening to our girls. And the medical establishment's answer is to move the goalposts — lower the age, redefine normal, and call it a day. Dr. Terri isn't buying it. In this episode, she sits down with Dr. Tara Scott, board-certified OB/GYN, integrative medicine physician, and nationally recognized women's hormone expert, to go deep on one of the most urgent and overlooked conversations in women's health: why young girls are entering puberty earlier than ever before, what's driving it, and what parents can actually do about it. This isn't just about food or beauty products, though those matter. It starts in the womb. Researchers have found over 300 different chemicals in the umbilical cords of newborns — phthalates, parabens, forever chemicals, pesticide residues — all of them endocrine disruptors that mimic estrogen and tell the body to activate early. Both Dr. Terri and Dr. Scott watched this play out with their own daughters. Dr. Terri's first daughter, born before her integrative medicine shift, started her period at ten. Dr. Scott switched her twins to organic milk at age four after reading the research on…
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