Dr. Tyna Moore

And finally, my daughter was like, I think you might be a menopause mom, just because I was acting aberrantly.

Because the other symptom I was having that was so obvious was...

really terrible mental emotional changes, just really flat affect, tons of anxiety, a deep, heavy, I don't even want to call it a depression because it was such a flat affect.

It was coupled with this flat affect of just not giving any Fs about anything at all.

And I was having such a

That coupled with that chronic pain, I didn't know if I was going to make it out alive.

Honestly, I didn't know if I was going to make it out of there.

I could not deal with it.

It was so bad.

And so I started using a topical estrogen, which a lot of people love.

For me personally, it didn't quite cut it.

I was also having some sleep disruption on and off throughout.

Throughout about 2019, so 46 onward, I was having, about once a month, I'd have a really good bout of insomnia for a couple nights, but then it would pass.

Interestingly, I never decided if it correlated with my cycles, right?

And then I started paying attention, and I was like, oh, I think this is perimenopause.

As we age, we start to sag.

That is atrophy in action, and it happens to all of our tissues, not just the obvious stuff.

Our digestive tract starts to atrophy as well.

Along with it, our enzyme production can decline over time.

Proteases, for example, are what help you break down protein.