Dr. Jessica Shepard

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166 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard Nov 2025 last heard 11 Jun

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The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka · 277. Everything Women Need to Know About Perimenopause, Menopause & Hormone Therapy - Compilation · 11 Jun 2026 podcast

And it took me roughly about six months to put the pieces together.

Right, because there's also denial that goes with this, right?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Oh, that's not really happening.

Yeah, you know, there's nothing really going on.

Or you attribute it to something else.

I'm stressed, this, that, this.

And finally I was like, holy hell, Jessica.

You know, you are perimenopausal age and you are having symptoms.

The good thing is that I had the kind of the self-awareness to kind of put the pieces together, but I also had the tools and the resources.

So immediately I was like, well, hormone therapy is what I'm going to choose.

But for women who maybe don't have that luxury of knowing everything, and I'm sure we'll dive into that, is the symptoms that start are very subtle.

But in that is the consistency behind it, right?

Symptomatology usually is based on a one-off or something that happens and you never experience it again is now it's coming, maybe not as frequent, but I noticed that it's there.

And so not to dismiss those feelings of what you're feeling and then finding someone to discuss that with you.

Someone who, again, is going to put the experiential part of hormone changes in midlife onto you.

you are actually going through it.

So that can start anywhere from latter 30s, 38, I'm not even gonna put an age out there, but latter 30s, and going all the way up until you actually hit, like you said before, that wall of menopause, which is where your estrogen now is like flatlined.

It's like, we're not here anymore,

But all before that is the fluctuation, it's high, it's low, it's like I'm going to stay steady here, now I'm going to go lower.

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