Dr. Mary Claire Haver

Our LDL cholesterol tends to go up about 20%.

So you will see lab markers like vitamin D levels drop because we're not absorbing it as well.

Ferritin starts dropping, especially if you're having heavy periods associated with menopause.

So by the time you get to the hot flashes in the cycle of regularity, you're towards the end.

This is like a year or two until you're menopausal on average for most women.

So I'll give you the... For Caucasian women, the average age of menopause, it's a spectrum.

So average is 51 in the US.

I think you guys are about the same.

And then, but still normal, under the normal curve is 46 to 55.

Okay.

Okay.

So perimenopause is seven to 10 years before that.

So just back the math up.

So somewhere between 36, 37 to mid forties, like that's it.

That is when it starts for most women.

And they're like, oh, okay.

And here's where we get pushed back in medicine.

And it makes me crazy.

Show me a downside of educating a woman about her body.

And I'll tell you, there are people sitting in massive academic positions who are telling me not to talk about this because I'm going to scare women.