Dr. Stacy Sims

Why?

Well, it's just many women run low in magnesium, especially when your hormones are very low, especially when your estrogen and progesterone low.

You're having contractility of your uterus when you're having menstrual cramps.

Magnesium can help counter some of that and can also help you, if you're taking it at night, get into a more restful pattern.

Yeah.

I think when it comes to your health journey, nobody is really responsible for it except you.

But there's this idea that we should wait until things are wrong to then go get them fixed.

And what we are all trying to do across the spectrum of women's health and their lifespan is to say many of these things, if we start focusing on them much earlier and take a preventative approach—

which is often against some of these recommendations about when you should screen or when you should do testing.

But if we say, well, what is best for you as an individual?

Focus on setting up a life that is going to help prevent some of these diseased outcomes.

Start testing things earlier.

You're going to be in a position of power to make the decisions that are right for you from a place of education and not be left making them out of fear or misinformation or not knowing.

Because when it...

Women will go through these stages.

Time will make your fertility decisions for you if you do not.

That's a fact that your ovaries will stop functioning.

You will go into menopause.

So we need to both prepare for our reproductive years, optimize our fertility the best we can if that's a life goal for us, but to realize that it doesn't stop there, that you have to prepare for the next stage of the journey and what that's going to look like for you.

But the steps to take care of yourself start well before if you're able to.