Dr Natalie Crawford
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Absolutely.
It's like a go-to and we're looking at her nutritional profile.
We're looking at her fiber intake and then we're adding in a fiber supplement if she needs it.
So early menopause, we think so.
So, you know, you were born with a shelf life, a genetically predisposition shelf life on the ovary.
Okay.
And we don't know a lot of things to extend that shelf life because we have a certain number of eggs, but there are a lot of things we can do to speed that process up.
So that's going to be smoking women who smoke cigarettes or, you know,
Even we're looking at vaping now because it's a newer thing, but definitely tobacco consumption, you know, in the form of smoking, we see earlier menopause.
So there was this incredible study where they looked at women who were sexually abused who then had children who were sexually abused, right?
Went through menopause, I think, nine years sooner.
And it's the only study that looked at this, and it happened to be the stress they looked at was sexual abuse in the mother and the child.
And so...
They went through menopause nine years sooner.
So there is a component of emotional stress and long-term chronic emotional stress.
You know, the flip side of fertility is menopause.
No, no, no.
Medication induced sleep doesn't count.
This is not medication induced sleep.
There is a huge percentage of patients out there who are addicted to these medications and it has become the only way that they can sleep.