Cynthia Thurlow

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The Dylan Gemelli Podcast · Episode #116 Featuring Cynthia Thurlow PART 2! THE MENOPAUSE GUT: Balance Your Microbiome to Reclaim Your Health in Midlife and Beyond · 27 Apr 2026 podcast

I mean, I think, you know, I start the book off talking about this romantic 15th wedding anniversary trip to Morocco and how I got deathly ill from food poisoning, but my husband didn't, even though we'd eaten the same food.

And so I'm kind of setting the book up to say, these are the things I didn't know about perimenopause that are already changing how opportunistic infections impact us as our hormones are declining.

So when I was setting up

kind of the infrastructure for the book, it was like, okay, we start with the story because it gives people context.

And then we talk about like, what's the most mitochondrial dense organ in a woman's body?

Our ovaries.

What drives aging in a woman's body are ovaries.

The decline in ovarian function is the hallmark of that perimenopause to menopause transition.

And I think for a lot of people, they don't know that the health of our gut microbiome is connected to the ovaries.

There's a gut microbiome

Ovarian access, just like there's a gut brain access, but the gut ovarian access, there are specific things that women do in their lifetime that can accelerate the aging of their ovaries, vis-a-vis also accelerating their cycling into men.

So things like smoking.

trauma, chronic stress, certain toxicants in our lifestyles, you know, the things that we're told cumulatively over time don't matter, you know, exposure to plastic and estrogen mimicking chemicals, smoking decreases blood circulation to the ovaries, chronic stress imprints the body and also imprints the ovaries.

And those are the things that I kind of started from and then moved on to aging of the immune system, which is,

immunis in essence, that's the big fancy word, but the aging of the immune system also accelerates aging.

And so it really kind of walks you through, you know, these kind of key players and the immune system is super complicated.

I'm the first person to say I'm not an immunologist, but I had a big whiteboard out so that I could be able to talk about the key players in the immune system and make the information still accessible.

So I use a lot of analogies in the book.

And then we kind of move on to, you know, the gut bone access.

I think a lot of people don't know that the health of our bones is largely dependent on the health of our gut.

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