Hello and welcome to the Wellness Mama podcast. I'm Katie from WellnessMama.com and today I am back

with Dr. Marisa Snyder to talk about the five pervasive myths about perimenopause that we can all

stop believing right now. And some of them might surprise you. Dr. Marisa is well qualified

to speak on this topic as a functional doctor and

a perimenopause and menopause expert. She has literally written a book on a couple of these

topics, including her most recent The Essential Oil's Menopause solution and her number one

national bestseller, the Essential Oil's hormone solution, which focuses on optimizing women's

health through essential

oil. She has done this work for the past 15 years, lecturing at conferences, being featured

on all major mainstream media for her work with this, and most importantly, working with many

women to reclaim their health and find empowerment, even through perimenopause and menopause. So without further ado,

let's join and learn from Dr. Snyder. Dr. Marisa, welcome back. Thanks for being here again.

Thank you, honey, for having me. Well, we had an amazing first conversation about a lot to do with

perimenopause, especially hormone levels, symptomology, what to look for,

body composition changes. I feel like you built such a strong foundation, and I'll make sure

that episode is linked in the show notes of this one. In today's episode, I would really love to

tackle and debunk some myths around perimenopause because I know there are voices like yours that are really helping

to educate in a wonderful way around this, but it seems like there's still a lot of pervasive

myths floating around that might be doing a disservice to women. So maybe to start broad,

can you walk us through why do we even have so many misunderstandings around perimenopause and

menopause? Yeah, that's such a great question,

Katie. One of the one of the reasons why we really struggle with this is that there's a big

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