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#148: Hormone Balance Is the Key to Aging with Grace and Longevity with Shawn Tassone

Are you ready for some real talk about how to navigate your hormones in our modern, chaotic world? Dr. Shawn Tassone is a board-certified OB-GYN who specializes in integrative medicine to treat the mind and the body, especially during perimenopause and menopause. Dr. Shawn supports women who are struggling with hormone imbalance through his integrative approach and is here today to share his secrets on how you can live the life you desire in your 40’s, 50’s and beyond.

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#118: Why Hormone Optimization Is the Key for Women with Dr. Dan Pompa

We all know that detoxing has become an essential part of taking care of your body, but did you know that your cells and hormones also need to cleanse in order to achieve optimal functioning? Dr. Dan Pompa is an expert in reducing your toxic load and is here today to help guide us in ways that we can decrease the toxins and stressors in our life. 

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#60 What To Know About Perimenopause and Birth Control w/ Dr. Jolene Brighten

Most women get on hormonal birth control for symptom resolution, yet many doctors view birth control as a ‘one pill fits all’ that is used as a band-aid to cover up the root cause of your symptoms. Dr. Jolene Brighten realized this and took her hormonal expertise to set out and create Beyond the Pill, a book aimed at helping control understand post birth control syndrome and the long term effects associated with hormonal birth control.

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What’s Going On With Perimenopause?

By Bridgit Danner, FDNP, LAc

Menopause is, in our cultural vocabulary, described as the symptoms of hot flashes and night sweats. But menopause is actually the cessation of your menstrual cycle. You know it’s ceased when it you haven’t had a cycle for a year. Perimenopause is a period that extends for a long time before menopause.

Perimenopause starts at age 35, or starts 10 years before menopause, depending on who you ask. It is the slow decline (sorry to use that word) of your ovaries as a player in your endocrine system. Accompanying that is a slow decline of fertility, that really speeds up in your 40s.

Now that many women are delaying childbirth, many women are being hit with the double whammy of trying to conceive while dealing with perimenopause. Still others are experiencing troubling perimenopause symptoms while raising young children.

But what is going on in perimenopause anyway?

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