JJ Virgin

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?

And my gums started to bleed a little bit and my dentist was like, that's low estrogen.

So the minute these things started to show up, I started to treat it.

So I started first with thyroid.

Then I did a little testosterone, which helped bring my estrogen back.