JJ Virgin
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I fell in love with this idea because working in real life, working in the wild, I saw people that were eating right, exercising, and stuck, especially perimenopausal women. And this whole idea that nothing changes when you're perimenopausal, your metabolism stays the same, has got to be men saying that. Not one perimenopausal woman will say that to you, I don't think. Yeah.
And when did you start? Because I think that's a big question that people are very confused with. Well, 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... 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. I never did progesterone until I started to really use estrogen consistently because for me, progesterone makes me gain weight and weep. Yeah, wow. I never felt good on it.
In fact, we had a doctor in Palm Desert, California, who literally, he was a nut job. He put everybody on progesterone therapy, men and women. He thought everyone was progesterone deficient. And he would put them on like 100, 200 milligrams every single day. And then he put everyone on thyroid with a goal to drive their TSH to as close to zero as possible. I mean, horrible.
And he put me on progesterone. I gained 12 pounds in a week. I was like, OK, this is not for me. So now once I started to get, you know, more into perimenopause, I started to cycle it in. But low dose where, you know, most people are do about 100 milligrams. I was doing 50. So I never could use that. And that's why I say these things.
You have to know the symptoms of the different hormones and what's low and really where your ideal levels would be. And pay close attention because there's no way a doctor is going to know that. They won't know how you're feeling. They're not inside, you know, in with you. But I literally have been on hormones since my, you know, what, mid 40s.
It's dialed in. What was interesting is, you know, once you get through menopause, life is so, it's fabulous. I always say, you know, there's two amazing things, empty nesting and menopause. These are like amazing things that I hear people go, oh my God, empty nesting. I'm like, it's the greatest thing ever. Right. You have your life back. It's fantastic. They come over, they leave. It's awesome.
How old are your kids, by the way? They're 27 and 28. Okay. That's great. Yeah. Yes. So menopause, once your hormones are stabilized, it's the perimenopause that's like crazy because it's, you know, you're trying to like shift things when they're all over the place and trying to supplement that way.
The only time I had to shift this a little bit is I went to Korea a couple of years ago and got on this very special ginseng and it made my hormone receptors more sensitive and I was able to lower my doses, which was pretty cool. Oh, wow. I know. I didn't put it together until I was hearing a lecture at A4M, and I went, oh, that's what happened. I was like, what happened?
You find a really good doctor that knows this stuff that actually specializes in menopause, right? Which is amazing that you could be in a gynecologist and not trained in menopause and you'll hear all of them telling you, yeah, we didn't get trained in it. So you find someone trained in hormone replacement therapy because you might need testosterone and not estrogen.
You know, it's like everybody is different and there's no, it's not like the guy in Palm Desert with standard dosing. That's crazy. That makes no sense. Right.
So I just came out with a product. Actually, I launched it at Unimonia called, my husband named this, wait for it, Sheateen. Oh, cute.
Okay, here's what happened. So if I could go back in time and tell my younger self something, it would have been start creatine in your teens. Now, I was training people at Gold's Gym in Venice and they were all and they're all those big dudes and they all took creatine. I'm like, I'll have none of that. Thank you. Right. Right. Right. And, you know, creatine does not make you have big muscles.
It doesn't. If it does, if it did, it would be banned substance. What creatine does is it gives your body creatine for the phosphocreatine system to make ATP. So it helps you make energy. And creatine is in your muscles and in your brain. If you have enough. If you don't have enough, it's not going to be in your brain. but it's in your muscles and your brain.
I think it is the single most important supplement beyond the basics of like D and K, magnesium and fish oil for women 40 plus. I think it should be an absolute, you need this for a couple different reasons. Number one, it's going to help with energy production. And one of the biggest complaints as women start to get into perimenopause is that they have poor energy.
This can help, and it can help not just with body, but can help with mental, like with focus, with mood. In fact, there was a study done on postmenopausal women on SSRIs, and those who did creatine actually had way better changes in their mood than those who didn't. They're now doing studies on it for creatine. neurodegenerative diseases and for cognition.
So it helps you work out harder because of the energy. It also helps you with recovery, but it doesn't build muscle. You don't take creatine and sit on the couch and something happens. Now, here's what happened. As I started to dig into this a couple of years ago, I... looked at, I'm like, everybody needs to be on this, right? And especially women, we have less tissue stores of this than men do.
So I was like, we need this and we need it in our brains. And so I was like, you know, pushing it. I was a creatine pusher and everything I'd ever heard was monohydrate. It's the most studied. So do that one, which is true. It's the most studied, but it's kind of like, you know, a rotary phone. Just because we've always used it doesn't mean that's the best one, right?
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