Menopause and blood sugar: what you need to know

Diabetes Digital Podcast by Food Heaven

Wendy Lopez, Jessica Jones

Nutrition, Health & Fitness

4.9 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we talk about perimenopause and menopause with Dr. Jordan, Chief Medical Officer at Midi Health. Dr. Jordan leads a team focused on women’s midlife health through Midi, a telehealth platform. We cover what menopause is, its common symptoms, when it usually starts, and how it’s related to impaired glucose tolerance. Dr. Jordan explains Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT), discussing its safety, the best time to start, and the risks of waiting. We also look at natural remedies for menopause and how they compare to HRT. For women feeling off around menopausal age, Dr. Jordan offers advice on diagnosis and treatment. She explains the differences between perimenopause and menopause and why doctors may have overlooked menopause basics in the past. We also talk about what to expect when starting HRT, including how soon you might feel better and how long treatment usually lasts.

In This Episode We’ll Cover:

What menopause is and if all women experience it
Common symptoms of menopause and the typical starting age
The relationship between impaired glucose tolerance and menopause
Safety of Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) and its historical context
The optimal time to start HRT and the risks of delaying treatment
The effectiveness of natural remedies for menopause compared to HRT
Guidance for women feeling 'off' around menopausal age on diagnosis and treatment
Differences between perimenopause and menopause
Why menopause basics were historically overlooked by the medical establishment
What to expect when starting HRT, including improvement timelines and treatment duration + MUCH MORE!

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0:00.0	Welcome back to another episode of the Diabetes Digital Podcast.
0:04.3	Today we are talking about something that affects me personally, and that is menopause and
0:11.3	perimenopause.
0:12.8	Trust me, this is a conversation you definitely want to listen to, especially until the
0:18.0	end, because I had no idea about any of this and found myself, like,
0:23.6	going to so many different doctors, trying to figure out what was wrong with me, only to find
0:28.4	out that I was dealing with something called primary ovarian insufficiency, which is a form of early
0:33.6	menopause. And when I tell you that getting on hormone replacement therapy changed my
0:38.4	life, it gave me my life back seriously. Yeah, it was no joke with the symptoms. So today we're
0:44.0	going to have an expert on to talk to you all about what exactly is menopause and perimenopause.
0:48.4	We're going to dispel some of those myths related to hormone replacement therapy because so
0:53.5	many people, including myself,
0:55.2	were terrified of this. And I feel like our parents' generation didn't even do the hormones and
1:01.5	just suffered in silence. You know, there were some bad studies that came out about why they were
1:06.3	not helpful, but we're going to debunk those today. We're also going to talk about are there
1:10.3	natural remedies?
1:11.3	Because you see a lot of people on TikTok talking about what they're doing and alternatives.
1:15.7	And there actually is some truth to some of these alternatives and some reasons why they might be
1:20.1	able to help. And then, of course, we're going to talk about the link between diabetes and
1:26.0	pre-diabetes or impaired fasting glucose and menopause and hormone issues.
1:31.9	And why many of the times fixing your hormones might actually fix your blood sugar regulation issues.
1:39.8	So it's an amazing episode and Wendy's going to talk about the guests that we're interviewing today.
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