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Chapter 1: What shocking realization did Halle Berry have about menopause?
But now that I'm older, I'm like, this is the best thing I could have done. I'm still here. I'm smarter. I'm wiser. I'm more confident. And This is an amazing place. It's a blessing to age. It really is.
What do you love about this time in life? Because I mean, I just have my own thoughts about what I love. And I was just like you. I was like 30, 35. If I get beyond this, they're not going to want me anymore.
In the workplace, you feel like... in your relationships you'll be less desirable. All of these things work havoc on us psychologically. And it's hard. And then when we look around, we see women today turning themselves into monsters to stay eternally 35. At some point... Wir müssen das stoppen und uns darin erlauben, das zu tun, was wir geboren werden.
Das ist das Alter, aber wir müssen es finden, so dass wir uns nicht in Versionen einer Schelle verändern, wie wir wirklich sind, weil wir die ewige Jugend suchen. Warum ist das das Ziel? Warum muss das das Ziel sein?
I don't know. I think about it now. And I actually think about like, what have I learned on the other side of this, right? My mother didn't live past 51. So I never had that roadmap of what happens next. And so seeing women of our age doing beautiful things. I mean, a second chapter. You have done so much and there's so much more I can see that you're doing with Respin.
And it's got to be tremendous every day to know the impact that you're going to have on women, not just our age, but the younger generation who should know this at 40 years old, who should know this at 35 years old.
Yes. Und Respin wird auch ein Ort für sie. Wir werden jüngere Formen und jüngere Gruppen und Chats haben, weil sie wissen müssen, was zu erwarten ist. Du weißt besser, du tust besser. Also wenn sie wissen, wie sie sich für die Mittagszeit vorbereiten, werden sie in einem viel besseren, viel empfohleneren Ort erreichen. Und ich will auch, dass sie wissen, dass es nichts zu befreien ist. Ich weiß.
Es ist nichts zu befreien. Richtig?
What would you like to see happen with regard to the research and the clinical trials that need to be done at this point? Because I know that you've had your finger on the pulse of those. I know you're very aware of everything that's going on in D.C., but there's so many different areas that we have work to do.
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Chapter 2: Why has menopause been a taboo topic in Hollywood?
We do. We have work to do in every area, you know, because, you know, estrogen is in every cell of our body. So it affects every organ in our body, our brains, our hearts, our bones. You know, all of our systems are run off estrogen. And so when that, you know, changes, Alles, was über unseren Körper zu tun hat, ändert sich. Wir brauchen also mehr Forschung in jedem Bereich, ganz ehrlich.
Ich weiß, dass es die Frauen in Braun und Black stark beeinflusst. Und ich möchte wissen, warum das so ist. Warum ist das so? Niemand hat die Frage beantworten können. Wir wissen, dass es wahr ist, aber ich suche nach dem Warum. Denn wenn wir das Warum herausfinden können, können wir vielleicht diesen Faktor vermeiden. Aber wir wissen nicht, warum.
Also mehr Forschung, mehr Forschung, mehr Forschung. Ja, wir hören, dass Symptome früher starten, länger dauern und intensiver werden. Und niemand kann sagen, warum das passiert. Wie man über Lebensstilveränderungen spricht, wie man über hormonale gegen nicht-hormonale spricht. Es ist schockierend, dass das wirklich die erste Teil dieser Gespräche ist.
Und die meisten Frauen bekommen diese Informationen aus der Gemeinschaft oder online und nicht sogar von Ärzten an dieser Stelle. Ja.
Und ich glaube, dass Ärzte, und ich blame keine Ärzte, ich blame nicht mal meinen Ärzten, der mich missdiagnostiziert hat. Ich wirklich nicht. Er hat alles getan, was er konnte. Er wurde nicht in der Schule eingeladen. auf unserem menopausalen Körper.
Es wurde nicht gemacht, um ein Thema zu sein, das sehr wichtig war, also ist es nicht wirklich seine Schuld, aber ich werde die Ärzte beurteilen, denn jetzt, dass wir hier darüber sprechen, laut und stolz und wir beurteilen, dass wir besser verdienen, werde ich die Ärzte beurteilen, wenn sie nicht zurückgehen und retooled werden und sie nicht wirklich sehr hart arbeiten, um zu verstehen, was mit der Hälfte der Bevölkerung für die Hälfte ihres Lebens passiert.
I think it will become something that I think they should be held accountable for pretty soon.
I agree with you. And especially because there are so many different solutions out there that we're seeing more and more come up. And lifestyle changes have to be part of that solution. It cannot be poo-pooed as, you know, do this one pill or this one patch or this one thing. And everything else is just, you know, optional.
Yeah. And because we go through it all so differently. How can it be like a one, you know...
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