Petra Bagust

Ooh, it's good to get into the nitty gritty straight away.

And look, female-specific research is so important and understanding our biology is useful.

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I want to know, as a woman, would you look at this as a preventative care, as a responsive care, as a maintenance care?

The stages of perimenopause and postmenopause are significant.

Like the rage stage didn't last very long for me.

The anxiety stage was a flash in the pan.

The hot flash stage was longer, but specifically, you know, certain times a day in certain environments.

The fatigue and brain fog was really long.

Like there's...

And it changes and then I felt clear and then I went back into it.

So as a woman going through perimenopause and into postmenopause, I'm not looking for set and forget.

I don't want to think of myself as broken and needing to be fixed.

That's how old I am.

Brilliant.