The Missing Piece of the Menopause Puzzle: Why Cellular Health Matters | Jess Kane

Yeah, I think cells and this concept of cellular health that's become kind of trendy is very esoteric.

And unless you are a biochemist or really into science or utilizing AI in the right way to say like, okay, really dumbed down cellular health for me, It's something that we can't grasp because we want to look at a symptom and relate it to something physical, right? And our cells are so tiny.

In women, there's 32 trillion cells.

We're making cells, the cells are dying every single second.

And so we can't really grasp what's making those cells healthy or if our cellular health is good or not.

And there's no test that you can go into a GP and say like, okay, my cells are performing well.

So it really came from my grandparents' work in the 1990s of looking at how our environment is affecting our cells and how those changes to the cells affect our epigenetics.

And when our epigenetics are activated in an earlier state because of our environment, things happen and we're seeing higher rates of autoimmune disease, higher rates of neurodegeneration, women who are experiencing perimetopause much earlier.

All of these things are happening at the cellular level.

So it's a broad concept.

It's hard to really grasp onto.

But when you really start to understand that there's a foundational element to our health, that we can be supporting all of the downstream processes in the body are then supported.

And so I like to really distill it down when we think about hormones.

They're not just like these free floating things in the body.

Where they land and where they communicate is on the cell.

It's on the cell membrane.

This is a protective barrier that's like a bubble that protects our cells.

And that needs to be healthy in order for hormones to work properly.

And so it's not just about creatine and muscle mass and BHRT.

It's also about when the hormones are trying to communicate, are they landing somewhere that they can actually do that?

So does the health of the cell affect how well the hormones signal? Because we always hear about hormones being talked about, chemical messengers, chemical messengers.

Where's that chemical messenger landing? On the cell membrane.

And so

if your cell membrane is messed up and your cellular health is messed up because your cell membrane is disrupted, which I'm newsflash, every single person that's listening to the show, every single person that's sitting out there, your cell membrane is disrupted because of the environment that we live in.

And so that is part of this like downstream process in which we have hormonal dysregulation.