Wondering how menopause can affect your hormone levels? In this video, our providers explore the connection between menopause and low hormone levels, and how HRT can help with common menopause symptoms like hot flashes, mood changes, weight gain, and fatigue.
Our hormones are responsible for a wide range of functions in the body, from regulating everything from your metabolism to your reproductive health. As we age, it is natural for our hormones to start to decline, but this decline could be more impactful for women whenever they approach menopause. For women, estrogen and progesterone are our primary sex hormones, and they can start to decline as early as in your 30s and in your 40s, but the most dramatic drop occurs when women enter menopause. Menopause is a naturally-occurring biological process that usually begins around age 50 for most women. When this happens, your natural production of estrogen and progesterone starts to gradually decline, and when that happens is whenever you start having some of those symptoms. When women enter menopause, a lot of these symptoms that present are gonna be hot flashes, night sweats, mood changes, weight gain, and vaginal dryness. This hormone shift can also lead to long-term changes with risk for osteoporosis and even cardiovascular disease. It is also important to note that not just menopause can affect hormones. Things such as stress, genetics, and nutrition can also negatively affect these hormones in both women and men, and that can also lead to those symptoms such as fatigue, weight gain, low libido.
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