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Postmenopause
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Oct 28, 2026
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The reason it is so difficult is precisely because it is so wildly unpredictable.
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Postmenopause is a relatively static state of low hormones, right? But perimenopause is a rollercoaster.
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A total rollercoaster.
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Estrogen is surging one week and crashing the next.
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In perimenopause, contrary to popular belief, a woman's estrogen levels are not consistently low.
speaker_1HOST
Wait, they aren't? I thought menopause was all about low estrogen.
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Postmenopause is.
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But in perimenopause, because the brain is screaming at the aging ovaries to produce follicles, estrogen levels are highly erratic and often spike much higher than they ever did in her 20s.
Mary Claire HaverGUEST
And that is what got me to like be in this happy place.
Katie ThompsonHOST
And those changes were made during menopause, postmenopause? Postmenopause,
Mary Claire HaverGUEST
yeah.
Mary Claire HaverGUEST
If I would still be on the same track that I was in perimenopause, I'd be dead.
LaiaHOST
Menopause is the milestone.
LaiaHOST
Postmenopause is everything that follows, and the whole journey can last a decade or more.
LaiaHOST
According to researchers, we go through different phases.
LaiaHOST
The first one is called the late reproductive years.