EP. 246: In this episode, I’m breaking down six additional signs that estrogen may be declining long before most women or doctors recognize it.
This is Part 2 of a two-part series on low estrogen. If you haven’t listened to Part 1 yet, I strongly recommend you do, because these signs rarely show up in isolation.
In this episode, I connect the dots between hormone loss and the symptoms women are routinely told to ignore, and explain why waiting until menopause is often too late.
Topics discussed:
→ Early and under-recognized signs of estrogen decline in midlife
→ Why waking in the night, nervous system dysregulation, and metabolic stress are often hormonal
→ Hair loss, skin thinning, collagen breakdown, and tissue fragility as estrogen signals
→ What hormone-literate clinicians look for (and why many doctors miss it) → Common midlife conditions in women that are mislabeled as “normal aging” but aren’t
On This Episode We Cover:
→ 00:01:30 - Why you need to get your estrogen levels checked in your 30s and when to start estrogen
→ 00:04:27 - What to do if you can’t tolerate estrogen
→ 00:06:46 - My clinical experience with women, estrogen, and bioidentical hormone replacement therapy
→ 00:09:36 - What it feels like when estrogen starts leaving the body
→ 00:13:13 - Waking up in the middle of the night, sleep disruption, and hot flashes
→ 00:19:15 - Alcohol intolerance and why it can feel like you’ve been poisoned
→ 00:21:25 - Crippling migraines in women and why they shouldn’t be ignored
→ 00:22:45 - Frequent urination, what it could mean and how to fix it
→ 00:27:30 - Flaccid skin, bruising, and poor wound healing and what they indicate
→ 00:29:39 - Hair loss and hair thinning
→ 00:31:00 - Hair loss and GLP-1 medications
→ 00:35:00 - Why I’ve been hyper-fixated on hair health and what I’ve been doing
→ 00:37:04 - Why elderly women are losing their teeth
→ 00:39:14 - The hairline product I use
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Further Listening:
→ EP. 233 | Hair Loss 101: What Every Woman Needs to Know | Solo
→ EP. 218 | Hormones After Breast Cancer? What You Need to Know with Dr. Corinne Menn
→ EP. 214 | Histamine Hijack: What Every Woman Needs To Know | Solo
→ EP. 199 | Hot Flashes Are a Warning Sign: The Truth About Metabolic Dysfunction | Quick + Dirty
→ EP. 187 | The 5 Hazardous Sign of Low Estrogen Most Doctors Overlook | Solo
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