Perimenopause 101: The Symptoms, Tests & Fixes No One Tells You About
About this episode
Tamsen Fadal shares her personal experiences and insights about perimenopause, including symptoms, misconceptions, and the importance of understanding this phase of life.
In the next 20 minutes, you are going to understand something that nobody told you. And once you do, nothing about the last few years is going to feel random anymore. Tamsen went through perimenopause completely alone. No one explained what was happening. No TikTok full of women going through the same thing. No doctor proactively connecting the dots. Just a message in her patient portal that said, “In menopause, any questions?” That was it. In this honest and personal episode, Tamsen shares the five things she wishes she had known, from why the belly fat was never her fault to why she was Googling dementia symptoms in a bathroom stall during the evening news, to the one thing that took her years to unlearn about hormone therapy that she thinks about every single day. You'll learn: - Why the belly fat and bloating were not your fault and what is actually behind them - How perimenopause changed every relationship in Tamsen's life before she even understood what was happening= - Why the psychological symptoms hit before the physical ones and what that means for the anxiety, irritability, and brain fog you may be feeling right now - The truth about the 2002 Women's Health Initiative…
People in this episode
Host: Tamsen Fadal
Topics covered
- perimenopause
- hormone therapy
- women's health
- mental health
- body image
Keywords
- perimenopause
- symptoms
- hormone therapy
- belly fat
- anxiety
- women's health
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