Progress Your Health Podcast

Question:  Why Is Perimenopause so awful? Short Answer:  We work with a good number of women in their 40’s and most of them do complain about how difficult Perimenopause is for them. As female hormones begin to decline, but stress levels are high it can cause a wide variety of symptoms. The most common perimenopausal symptoms are weight gain, irritability, and insomnia. PYHP 096 Full Transcript:  Download PYHP 096 Transcript Dr. Davidson: Thank you for joining us for another episode of the Progress Your Health Podcast. I am Dr. Valerie Davidson and I am here joined with my co-host, Dr. Maki. Dr. Maki: Good morning. How are you today?  Dr. Davidson: I am doing great. Thanks.  Dr. Maki: We are experiencing a little bit of almost a torrential downpour this morning. Looking out the window, it is, unfortunately, raining a little bit too hard. Dr. Davidson: But it is not that cold. So June, June in Washington, Western Washington. What do you expect? Dr. Maki: Hopefully the sun will come out later this afternoon. So