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Jen Gunter
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July 7 - August 6, 2023
There’s a growing body of literature that shows adverse childhood experiences lead to many negative health outcomes by triggering a dysregulated stress response that affects the developing brain as well as the endocrine and immune systems. This is known as the toxic stress response, and it can have profoundly negative complications. Exposure to four or more adverse childhood experiences increases the risk of many conditions intertwined with menopause such as heart attack, stroke, sleep disorders, Alzheimer’s disease, diabetes, depression, and breast cancer. Trauma literally rewires the brain
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A very cool and sort of mind-blowing fact is when your grandmother was pregnant with your mother she also contained the primordial follicle inside one of your mother’s ovaries that was destined to become you.
age sixty-five increases the risk of death—primarily
This is actually one of my tips on how to know you are getting bad menopause advice—if the provider recommends topical progesterone get up and walk out the door.
