Dr. Amy Shah

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unPAUSED with Dr. Mary Claire Haver · Gut, Brain, and Hormones: The Menopause Connection with Dr. Amy Shah · 30 Jun 2026 podcast

So when we are eating badly or we're having a lot of inflammation, we're kind of not making enough serotonin, not making enough

It's like the happy, the happy chemical.

It is something that everybody kind of thinks of when you feel happy.

And the melatonin is the one that makes you sleep and regulates your sleep and wake cycle.

So those are like the two big things that actually change, right, during a perimenopausal woman.

And so you have that happening, but then you have a crosstalk happening.

There's consistent walkie-talkie crosstalk between the brain and the gut.

And so what most people don't realize is that the gut is constantly talking to the brain about what's going on in there with the immune system, with the hormones and with what you're eating.

And the brain is giving feedback down to the gut.

So it's like a two-way street.

How does the brain talk to the gut?

So the brain will say based on the information it's getting from the external world.

So for example, good things, sunlight, community, love, it's sending good signals down to the gut and the gut feels relaxed and it's making more serotonin and it's like happy.

It gets really happy when we're moving like exercise in nature.

But then if it's having negative inputs like stress, anxiety,

you're sad, you're in a dangerous situation, it sends those signals down to the gut too.

It's a two-way walkie-talkie, constantly talking to each other.

And so all of our decisions that we think are made by our brain, it's really that brain-gut access.

It's that's the center.

And that's why I think it's so important for women especially to realize like, if you want to move into this next stage of your life in the best way possible, you have to understand that brain-gut connection because then your hormones get better, your immune system gets better, your mood gets better, and your digestion gets better because the center is there.

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