Dr. Vonda Wright

I call my cardiology friend because I worked at a university.

I'm like, Ricky, Ricky, I think I'm dying.

He put me on a stress test and my heart was perfect at that point.

Then I had

Arthralgia, which is total body pain.

It's part of the inflammatory response of not having estrogen.

It's part of the musculoskeletal syndrome of menopause assembly of symptoms.

So much that I go from training...

To almost not being able to get out of bed.

And my experience of not knowing what was coming and hitting a wall is not uncommon, right?

And so I started educating myself and being an acquired expert.

I read what I consider the world's data on safety of things.

hormone optimization, as I like to call it.

And I made the decision that I was going to do all the tools.

I was going to learn to lift heavy again, which I hadn't done since high school because I was a runner.

And I changed the way I do my cardio.

And I changed my diet.

And I am so committed to sleep.

Do not call me after 9.30 at night because I am going to be in bed.

And just the quiet times of de-stress.