About this episode

Dr. Terri DeNeui discusses the hormonal changes women experience in their 30s, 40s, and 50s and their impact on mood, metabolism, and overall health.

You've heard about hot flashes. Maybe you've even had them. But the hormone shift that's quietly dismantling your mood, your metabolism, your sleep, and your sense of self? That started years before menopause and most women have no idea. In this solo episode, Dr. Terri DeNeui maps the full three-decade hormone timeline every woman needs to understand: the testosterone loss that begins in your 30s (and its devastating, and overlooked connection to depression), the progesterone decline that hits like a wall in your 40s, and the estrogen fluctuation that makes the late 40s and early 50s the most miserable stretch for many women. She also makes the case for thyroid as the most underdiagnosed piece of the puzzle and explains why a normal TSH doesn't mean your thyroid is actually working. Along the way, she takes on the antidepressant default, sharing her own doctoral research showing that women who optimized their testosterone resolved their depression entirely and the birth control pill habit that well-meaning gynecologists are still prescribing after 40, despite a very real and elevated stroke risk. This episode is for women in their 30s, 40s, and 50s who've been told their labs are…

People in this episode

Host: Dr. Terri DeNeui

Topics covered

• hormone health
• women's health
• menopause
• testosterone
• progesterone
• estrogen
• thyroid health

Keywords

• hormones
• hot flashes
• depression
• thyroid
• birth control
• testosterone loss
• progesterone decline
• estrogen fluctuation
• women's health
• menopause

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