Key Seven-Year Milestones: 7–28 Explained

Did you notice metabolic changes around age 35 and/or 42? Does perimenopause even exist? Is there an ideal childbearing window? Why are humans one of the only species to experience menopause? Suuzi Hazen, doctor of Chinese Medicine and my closest companion in healing from midlife burnout, gives us the Traditional Chinese Medicine perspective on the 7 year framework for girls’ and womens’ life transitions.

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Related previous episodes with Suuzi- Nourishment Lost, Women’s Bodies are Metabolically Expensive, Midlife Burnout for Women

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