Dr. Jessica Shepherd
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first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
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starts at a certain time because our bodies are again beautiful machines which they know when they're going to start this process so in the the ramping up for this actual delivery of like guys we got a job to do we got a new design of a job that we have to start yep everyone's running around because they're like where am i supposed to be okay you're there okay wait am i supposed to be doing this and over time which is when you start to see that fluctuation everyone's getting ready for the job
And then finally, they're like, we've got it down. We've done enough rehearsal. We're ready to do the job.
It's receiving, delivery and receiving. It's the most important part, I would say, of a hormone because they want to get that message across. And then the hormones that disassemble, you know, so the job now is kind of falling apart, is what's happening in perimenopause and menopause. What do you mean, disassemble?
Well, when we go through a hormone decline, which is the opposite of what we're doing when we're getting towards puberty and adolescence, perimenopause is they're like, biologically, we're not going to be doing that delivery system anymore. We're going to slow down this project now. And people are like, okay, then I'll come off here. I'm just not going to show up to work anymore.
And that's when you start to see the fluctuation of what happens to hormones in the perimenopausal phase. So they're kind of saying that job that we used to do for 30 plus years is of giving off an egg at a certain time every part of the month, we're not really doing that anymore.
So that's when you start to see the offloading of what happens with hormones, which is why we now experience all those symptoms in perimenopause.
They do, but their decline is much slower over a longer timeframe.
And so that's why you still can have men who are in their 70s and 80s still being able to have or contribute sperm and you get pregnant, but we no longer can after a certain age, which is why women experience menopause.
Well, all hormones for men and women obviously play that specific role. But when we speak to just women and how they're going to experience life, I think that's the best way to frame it is how are you experiencing life? What's contributing to the factors that really are kind of key and specific to women? I would say estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone, as well as our thyroid hormones.
But men do have thyroid hormones as well, as well as estrogen and testosterone. We just have it in different levels. But for women, I would say estrogen, progesterone, testosterone, and our thyroid hormones.
So they're kind of like in separate pods, but they're kind of in the same neighborhood and really contribute towards each other. But estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone.
I usually like to categorize it as maybe if we were to say our menopausal, metabolic, and mitochondrial hormones. And so cortisol is really, I like to put it in the metabolic kind of family of when we talk about hormones because it has such a broad impact on our entire body system.
So metabolic means the things that function in how we regulate the activity of our entire body. So metabolically, we would say if you have metabolic hormones that are being shifted, that's usually when we talk to insulin and glucose and how our body is able to absorb glucose, utilize glucose as a fuel. So cortisol really has a lot to do with that as far as metabolic functions. Okay.
So I would definitely say what we have started to see, you know, over the last few decades is typically when we start our period, that age has become younger. Why? And so that age has become younger because of environmental factors. A lot of the things that we have in our environment, a lot of the foods that we eat. So it actually is something that we should be researching in a way of
why is this happening? And is this something that has implications on our life later on? And when I say later on, like your 50s and- I would think so. Absolutely. You know why? Because cortisol, which we kind of bring it back into the conversation a little, has a lot to do with, is this the reason why we're starting to see our women or young girls starting to have their periods at a younger age?
And so what's happening is you're starting to have this onboarding, right? We talked about this complexity of our bodies and the systems and how it's being regulated. So the onboarding time is a little bit earlier now. And so what's happening is that estrogen is starting to rev up because our bodies want to release this egg in order to have a menstrual cycle. And so it starts that process earlier.
And estrogen and progesterone are going to be those key hormones that are going to filter into... When am I going to be high? When am I going to be low? We talked about how they're coming into themselves as a system and a bodily function in order to accomplish an event, which is your menstrual cycle. So what is the role of estrogen?
Estrogen really, I like to call it our vitality hormone because we really see when we look at our menstrual cycle or even when women come to me and they have changes in their menstrual cycle, we typically like to say, how is estrogen functioning? And as a vitality hormone, What is it contributing? Maybe it's a little bit too much here or a little too little.
And how can we alter it in a way where you can get back to your, maybe your normal rhythm or your normal menstrual cycle? So it builds up when we're starting our period and it really is creating, your body's in default actually to get pregnant, which is the whole reason for your menstrual cycle is to conceive and to get pregnant.
I would say biologically, that's what, if we were to look at it just from like key, you know, key framework.
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