JJ Virgin
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Because I think that's a big question that people are very confused with.
Yeah, you start when things start to shift.
So that's different for everybody.
That could be late 30s.
It could be early 40s.
For me...
early 40s, I think I was around 44, I remember all of a sudden, I used to always be the sweaty one, like sweaty, sweaty, sweaty, you know?
And all of a sudden I'm cold and I got a little constipated.
I started to lose my eyebrow.
And this happened like that.
And one of my friends was an integrative med doc who was like, looked at my TSH, which was 2.25, I remember.
Totally in the range.
And I was hypothyroid.
And the minute he gave me a little thyroid, it's like the lights came back on.
Everything normalized.
The next thing that happened was I could not recover from my workouts like I used to.
Now I know from, you know, Dr. Vonda Wright that this is
musculoskeletal syndrome due to menopause.
But back then I was like, I had no clue.
I was just like, what is going on?