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The Importance of Estrogen in Menopause
I was put in menopause, but put in how? So I take two different medicines. One shuts down your ovaries from producing estrogen and progesterone. And then I take a daily pill because estrogen doesn't just come from your ovaries. Like fat cells produce it. It's produced in like smaller amounts elsewhere. That just sponges the rest of the estrogen out of my system. Most people get like perimenopause. So like you kind of start tapering down on estrogen. They're like, my feelings are all over the place. Horny. But I'm also like, my body's changing. Mine was more like, you know, going 60
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