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About Dr. Jen Gunter:
Dr. Jen Gunter is an OB/GYN and a pain medicine physician. She writes a lot about sex, science, and social media, but sometimes about other things because, well, why not?
She's been called X's resident gynecologist, the Internet’s OB/GYN, and one of the fiercest advocates for women’s health. She has devoted her professional life to caring for women.
* we can't DENY the IMPACT of EXERCISE on all of the DOMAINS that MENOPAUSE TOUCHES and if you want the one thing if EXERCISE were a DRUG that would be the thing we would be giving to EVERYBODY to keep that in mind and it's not just AEROBIC EXERCISE but STRENGTH BUILDING, so that would be the MOST IMPORTANT FOUNDATION for TREATING MENOPAUSE!
* we do have other treatments as well and one of the treatments that people have heard a lot about is MENOPAUSAL HORMONE THERAPY or MHT we used to call it HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY and we DO NOT USE that TERM ANYMORE because we are NOT REPLACING ESTROGEN that YOU SHOULD HAVE, we EXPECT MENOPAUSE to HAPPEN, we EXPECT ESTROGEN LEVELS to CHANGE but we also DON'T EXPECT PEOPLE to SUFFER and so it's a THERAPY!
If every facet of the reproduction process is based in evolution, how does menopause, something where reproduction is no longer possible, benefit our species? We think it's because of an idea called the wise woman hypothesis, says Dr. Jen Gunter, an OB/GYN and author.
The wise woman hypothesis describes the idea that historically for humans, having a grandmother in your family unit meant you had an extra pair of knowledgeable hands that themselves weren't occupied with child-rearing. Someone who could go out and help gather food, build shelter, find water, and pass on historical knowledge from other generations.
And so menopause represents evolution in the long game, the idea that we retain our power as we age. Dr. Jen Gunter explains both the science and common myths behind the biological process of menopause, and how to know who to trust to guide you while going through it.
Dr. Jen Gunter is an OB/GYN and a pain medicine physician. She writes a lot about sex, science, and social media, but sometimes about other things because, well, why not?
She's been called X's resident gynecologist, the Internet’s OB/GYN, and one of the fiercest advocates for women’s health. She has devoted her professional life to caring for women.
* we can't DENY the IMPACT of EXERCISE on all of the DOMAINS that MENOPAUSE TOUCHES and if you want the one thing if EXERCISE were a DRUG that would be the thing we would be giving to EVERYBODY to keep that in mind and it's not just AEROBIC EXERCISE but STRENGTH BUILDING, so that would be the MOST IMPORTANT FOUNDATION for TREATING MENOPAUSE!
* we do have other treatments as well and one of the treatments that people have heard a lot about is MENOPAUSAL HORMONE THERAPY or MHT we used to call it HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY and we DO NOT USE that TERM ANYMORE because we are NOT REPLACING ESTROGEN that YOU SHOULD HAVE, we EXPECT MENOPAUSE to HAPPEN, we EXPECT ESTROGEN LEVELS to CHANGE but we also DON'T EXPECT PEOPLE to SUFFER and so it's a THERAPY!
If every facet of the reproduction process is based in evolution, how does menopause, something where reproduction is no longer possible, benefit our species? We think it's because of an idea called the wise woman hypothesis, says Dr. Jen Gunter, an OB/GYN and author.
The wise woman hypothesis describes the idea that historically for humans, having a grandmother in your family unit meant you had an extra pair of knowledgeable hands that themselves weren't occupied with child-rearing. Someone who could go out and help gather food, build shelter, find water, and pass on historical knowledge from other generations.
And so menopause represents evolution in the long game, the idea that we retain our power as we age. Dr. Jen Gunter explains both the science and common myths behind the biological process of menopause, and how to know who to trust to guide you while going through it.
