Adele Wimsett

Why is the perimenopause a season where so many women are now getting diagnosed? It really seems to be a time where, like you've explained so beautifully, we've spent our life masking, we've had the help of all our beautiful estrogen and progesterone, all our strategies are working, we're spinning all the plates, and then perimenopause hits, and we're like, what fresh hell is this?

What is going on here? All my strategies that I had aren't working. Well, why? It's not just because we're accessing more information, there's more diagnosis. Something is happening, and we know there is a hormonal shift. So I wanted to understand what this was, right?

What is going on here? All my strategies that I had aren't working. Well, why? It's not just because we're accessing more information, there's more diagnosis. Something is happening, and we know there is a hormonal shift. So I wanted to understand what this was, right?

What is going on here? All my strategies that I had aren't working. Well, why? It's not just because we're accessing more information, there's more diagnosis. Something is happening, and we know there is a hormonal shift. So I wanted to understand what this was, right?

So what came to me is when we're looking at women in those earlier phases, those earlier years of premenopause, so like late 30s, early 40s, and I tend to see ADHD women going through this younger than neurotypical women, And what's happening here? Progesterone is dropping off, right?

So what came to me is when we're looking at women in those earlier phases, those earlier years of premenopause, so like late 30s, early 40s, and I tend to see ADHD women going through this younger than neurotypical women, And what's happening here? Progesterone is dropping off, right?

So what came to me is when we're looking at women in those earlier phases, those earlier years of premenopause, so like late 30s, early 40s, and I tend to see ADHD women going through this younger than neurotypical women, And what's happening here? Progesterone is dropping off, right?

So when we look at progesterone as being this magical molecule, which I know is so triggering for women who feel like, I hate progesterone, I'm feeling tolerant to it. Actually, I think it's something else that's going on. Progesterone is a mood stabilizer. Progesterone regulates the nervous system, right? It does so much more than just protects the lining of our uterus.

So when we look at progesterone as being this magical molecule, which I know is so triggering for women who feel like, I hate progesterone, I'm feeling tolerant to it. Actually, I think it's something else that's going on. Progesterone is a mood stabilizer. Progesterone regulates the nervous system, right? It does so much more than just protects the lining of our uterus.

So when we look at progesterone as being this magical molecule, which I know is so triggering for women who feel like, I hate progesterone, I'm feeling tolerant to it. Actually, I think it's something else that's going on. Progesterone is a mood stabilizer. Progesterone regulates the nervous system, right? It does so much more than just protects the lining of our uterus.

It plays this huge role in supporting our emotional and mental health, how well we're sleeping. It plays this big role because it's sensitizing the GABA, the GABA receptors that help to calm us down.

It plays this huge role in supporting our emotional and mental health, how well we're sleeping. It plays this big role because it's sensitizing the GABA, the GABA receptors that help to calm us down.

It plays this huge role in supporting our emotional and mental health, how well we're sleeping. It plays this big role because it's sensitizing the GABA, the GABA receptors that help to calm us down.

So surely it makes absolute sense that as we shift into this season where we're becoming progesterone deficient and our adrenals are so tired as a generation of women, they're not kicking in to produce the progesterone that our foremothers had the privilege of, and we're just crash landing into this season.

So surely it makes absolute sense that as we shift into this season where we're becoming progesterone deficient and our adrenals are so tired as a generation of women, they're not kicking in to produce the progesterone that our foremothers had the privilege of, and we're just crash landing into this season.

So surely it makes absolute sense that as we shift into this season where we're becoming progesterone deficient and our adrenals are so tired as a generation of women, they're not kicking in to produce the progesterone that our foremothers had the privilege of, and we're just crash landing into this season.

So also, as we know, the estrogen is usually still at a pretty good level at this point, right? It's the progesterone that is coming down. So we then step into what we look at as this estrogen dominant pattern, not because we're producing too much, but because that progesterone just isn't there.

So also, as we know, the estrogen is usually still at a pretty good level at this point, right? It's the progesterone that is coming down. So we then step into what we look at as this estrogen dominant pattern, not because we're producing too much, but because that progesterone just isn't there.

So also, as we know, the estrogen is usually still at a pretty good level at this point, right? It's the progesterone that is coming down. So we then step into what we look at as this estrogen dominant pattern, not because we're producing too much, but because that progesterone just isn't there.

in sufficient ratios to help counterbalance the effect that estrogen can have on mood right so we've not got the supportive benefits of the progesterone we've got the impact of the estrogen dominating and then this is where it starts to get really interesting to me