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Thank you so much for spending your time with Lisa and me today. And Lisa, thank you for sharing your insight, knowledge and compassion. We really appreciate you!

This was a huge show with so much helpful information, but here are just some of the takeways I am getting from the chat with Lisa:

1. Redirection in your career for any reason – including something medical – does not have to be the end. It can be a wonderful opportunity to nurture another part of yourself – and to ultimately help others nurture themselves
2. Everyone’s perimenopausal and menopause journey is unique to themselves. For Lisa, it did not start with hot flashes and mood swings. It started with a nagging toothache.
3. Research and talking to other women helped Lisa determine what was causing all the difference symptoms she was experiencing. It was what she heard – that women were thinking about ending their lives because they were not being heard that changed everything for her.
4. Sometimes we need to be reminded that we are doing enough, that we are enough.
5. Nutrition and gut health are the drivers of many physical and emotional symptoms during perimenopause and menopause.
6. As women, sometimes we forget the importance of getting the right nutrients and making sure we are actually eating throughout the day.
7. There is also a relationship between what we eat and our mental health.
8. Food is just food – it is neither good or bad.
9. The importance of eating mindfully, not under stress. If that piece of chocolate or cup of ice cream is going to bring you joy, eat it. But think about it first. Figure out what you can do during your day in order to be able to enjoy the treat guilt-free. And then, when you are eating this treat, do it mindfully. Appreciate the taste, the way it feels in your mouth, the way it smells. Notice these things. Take the time.
10. Take time for yourself. We can’t be all go, go, go all the time. Women give to others all the time – we need to give time to ourselves. To calm down, to breathe.
11. Perimenopausal and menopausal women do not live in a bubble – we have partners, families, colleagues – we need to be understanding of each other and ourselves.

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Thank you so much Chandan for sharing your story on the podcast with us today. I really enjoyed our chat, and here are some of my top takeaways:

1. No two women experience the same perimenopausal or menopausal journey. What works for your sister or your friend may not necessarily work for you. It’s important to listen, to read and to talk and share.
2. Friends, we need to see our doctors during this time of our lives. Hopefully you will have a doctor that will understand the very real changes and challenges you may be dealing with.
3. For Chandan, discovering aromatherapy was a game changer. She felt crushed, and through self-care and aromatherapy, she found herself again.
4. One thing that really stuck with me during the chat was when Chandan said that she knew what was going on, but she was not ready to accept it.
5. Although there are many cultural differences when it comes to the menopausal journey throughout the world, I think it is fair to say that until very, very recently menopause the world over was a taboo topic.
6. We need to come forward and have these kinds of conversations. Women need to know what to do when it happens. Girls and boys need to be educated about the menopausal journey.
7. Chandan’s Siya Wellness is a commitment to helping others as they navigate the mayhem of middle age.

Many thanks Chandan for coming onto the podcast and really talking with us.

Siya Wellness

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Thank you so much for spending your time with us. I am so grateful to be part of this growing community with you.

A big thank you to Dr. Paschal for sharing her knowledge, experience and wisdom with us. Here are some nuggets I am taking away from our conversation.

To Dr. Paschal, HRT is simply giving back the body the hormones (most often we speak of estrogen) that stop being produced with menopause.

Dr. Paschal’s thirst for knowledge was a critical catalyst throughout her career. It compelled her to keep training, get more certifications and developing her professional experience. She saw that some women were still feeling badly, even while taking the hormones, she wanted to see just why the hormones themselves weren’t enough. She focused on the importance of taking a holistic approach to the perimenopause and menopausal journey.

She saw that not only were women not getting the optimum dose of hormones they required, but they were also not being counselled in a holistic manner.

Dr. Paschal is not just talking to individual women, she is training and sharing her knowledge and experience with service providers.

The optimal window for people to start taking HRT is within 10 years of starting menopause. The medical community says that during those 10 years without estrogen therapy, your blood vessels have slightly changed, the elasticity has changed. And then when you add back in estrogen therapy after 10 years without it, especially after 20 years without, it can cause an increase, a slight increased risk of cardiovascular events. So potentially a heart attack.

Taking hormones can also help improve cognitive decline – so helps decrease the risk of Alzheimer’s and dementia.

Conducting a risk vs benefit analysis is an important exercise for women trying to decide what path they want to travel during menopause.

The bottom line is that a decline in estrogen increases women’s risk of cardiovascular disease, osteoporosis, cognitive decline and certain cancers. The risk of breast cancer drastically increases after menopause.

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