The “change” of losing ovarian hormones can be is fast for those of us who had our ovaries removed in our 40s.
The metamorphosis all women go through during their 4th decade is called Perimenopause by medical doctors even though it has nothing to do with loss of estrogen (menopause). Not only is perimenopause misnamed, but it also occurs much earlier than medical science tells us! The name Perimenopause is a misnomer: Peri- means “around” or “close to”, menopause, but Perimenopause generally begins more than 10 years before menopause (when menstrual periods stop). Women who turn 40 are faced with progressively worsening symptoms of TESTOSTERONE LOSS, not estradiol loss.
Perimenopause symptoms from loss of testosterone includes:
- Loss of sex drive
- Loss of feeling sexy and desirable
- Loss of muscle, strength and stamina
- Weight gain (fat) around the abdomen
- Mood disorders like anxiety and depression
- Fatigue
- Loss of Motivation
- New Headaches
- Foggy thinking and inability to concentrate
- PMS
- Irregular periods
- Heavy periods
The “medical marketing” around the term Perimenopause leads a woman to believe this is all about estrogen (menopause is when the production of estrogen ceases), however the first hormone to become deficient in women and cause these symptoms in the perimenopause is Testosterone. Testosterone loss causes most of the above symptoms. The next change during the Perimenopause decade is the loss of Progesterone which causes irregular and heavy bleeding. The last Hormone to become imbalanced during our 40s, is estradiol but not a loss of estrogen, which stimulates belly fat, PMS, growth of fibroids and heavy periods, but a surge of unbridled estradiol! PERIMENOPAUSE HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH MENOPAUSE (TOTAL LOSS OF ESTRADIOL) AND IT IS NOT close to THE TIME OF MENOPAUSE. IT OCCURS A DECADE BEFORE! You have been deceived by medical science and the government! Why would that be? Because if they keep us confused as to what is really wrong with us, then they don’t have to discuss it with us, or treat it, or pay for it.….and they can keep us miserable without hope!
It is my belief this term, Perimenopause, showed up in the late 1990s and early 2000’s because women were becoming OBGYNs and asking the question, what is happening to my patients between 35 and 52 years of age? ACOG (American College of OBGYN) didn’t want to admit that women had more testosterone than estradiol and provide a treatment for these symptoms. ACOG and their PR company decided to create a new syndrome without a treatment! They pitched Perimenopause as a new term a natural phase of life…. something no woman could do anything about except wait for menopause.
I have lived long enough to recognize a CON when I see one! This was one of the biggest deceptions of American women, only to be surpassed by the Fake News from the WHI study that caused millions of women to live without estradiol replacement for over 20 years! When I see these cons, I know there is one of two things behind them…MONEY or POWER, and these two medical cons were both!
In case you were not in the age group affected by these highly publicized “studies” that set women back almost 25 years. Medical Public relations messages miss-reported the findings of the WHI study that claimed (falsely) that ERT and HRT caused heart disease and breast cancer. That was the opposite of the finding! A LIE! By scaring women of menopausal age from taking ERT and HRT, they actually CAUSED breast cancer and heart disease! Estradiol actually precents heart disease and breast cancer in menopausal women! It was the PROVERA THAT CAUSED HEART DISEASE AND BREAST CANCER!
HRT had Estrogen mixed with Provera (a Progestin) and that part of the study DID have more of both diseases! So now you are caught up with what the generation before you was going through while you were growing up and having kids!
BTW, this is nothing new. The war against women has been going on since Adam and Eve. However, now in our progressive society, you would think things have changed, but it still goes on. In the recent dictum from the medical world, they tell doctors to refuse to write scripts of estrogen replacement therapy after women turn 60 something! There is No REAL research behind this, and I can’t imagine denying a woman lifesaving estradiol replacement just because she is over 60!
If you are not convinced that this push to subjugate us has been around forever to keep us in our places, please watch the movie “Hysteria”, a dark comedy based on the lives of women in the late 1880s.
Now Back to Perimenopause!
The ten years up to Menopause is a slow progression of losses, and new symptoms for women…we lose our body composition, our energy, our personality, our sexual self, our quality of life, how we view our role in life, and we are viewed as less valuable to society than we were before this process started.
The “change” of losing ovarian hormones can be is fast for those of us who had our ovaries removed in our 40s. There is no doubt that the symptoms of testosterone loss are due to a loss of the ovaries when they occur immediately after the ovaries are removed. However, for most women the change is slow and hard to pinpoint so we don’t realize how much we have changed until at our 25-year reunion we are not recognizable to others.
Even though this is a natural process, it was only a reasonable change when our life expectancy was 45 years. It is truly the preparation for lack of fertility and death.
But why does this still happen when we have advanced enough to live to age 100? We are built like we are built and we have not physiologically changed since our creation.
We need our Testosterone to get through the day, and to prevent the changes of aging! A recent Study in Menopause Journal written about Perimenopause outlined the SYMPTOMS OF PERIMENOPAUSE, but not the cure! That is reasonable since the government agencies are not acknowledging testosterone as a woman’s innate hormone and is not interested in paying for us to replace this vital hormone! Why not? We might live longer and use up the government savings for the aging population! Yes, they do talk about that in the area of Public Health….Aging women are not as valuable as young healthy women who can have babies.
After over 25 years of studies and research, The Medical Community still practices like there is no treatment for these symptoms, and testosterone is not a necessary female hormone.!
Instead of studies on rats, they should be looking at practices like mine. We have prescribed testosterone pellets to more than 27,000 women over 24 years with a 95% success rate!
The excuse of the FDA? ….” we just don’t have enough research!” That excuse is false. The FDAs lack of interest in the symptoms caused by deficient women’s testosterone and progesterone has committed millions of women to taking antidepressants and multiple medications for mood regulation that don’t work, when there is one answer—Perimenopause is really Lack of testosterone and progesterone. Replace what is missing and the symptoms of Perimenopause go away and we become WHOLE AGAIN.
Please read my book the Secret Female Hormone to find the answers to Perimenopause and to Menopause. Myt book was published 12 years ago published and every woman should read it to understand the answer to all the symptoms they are suffering through after age 38 and before menopause!
This Health cast was written and presented by Dr. Kathy Maupin, M.D., Bio-identical Hormone Replacement Expert and Author. www.BioBalanceHealth.com • (314) 993-0963. Please subscribe to our YouTube channel and please check “ Like “. Follow us on Facebook and Instagram at BioBalanceHealth.
