Dr. Jessica Shepard
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2 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 11 Jun
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Or nothing is changing.
And that's really not even biologically how our bodies work.
Nothing shifts overnight.
It all is a process.
And so when we think of perimenopause starting in our latter 30s,
all the way through our 40s.
I think it's very astounding.
Even when I tell my patients that that is really the duration of what happens, they sit and think about it.
It's like you see the light bulb go off because one, either they're going through it and have been for years or two, really sitting to say, oh, my body is going through a transition that took years.
That's how the cells work.
That's how we see changes in the body.
And especially with hormones, when we see the flux between estrogen and progesterone,
whether they're counteracting each other in a way they didn't before or on a decline, that takes years.
Yeah.
And that's what you'll typically find is that you're just fine.
I classically trained as a physician.
That's what we were taught is we're really looking for abnormalities.
And I said that before is we live in the world of illness and disease.
So we're always looking for something that is really wrong.
When really what we should be looking at as the human body as it transitions for both men and women, but for now women is even in the moment of it looks within normal range,
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