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Understand Your Hormones for Improved Health with Dr Kyle Gillette, MD

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The Relationship Between Hormones and Alzheimer's Disease in Postmenopausal Women

During the premenopausal and perimenopausal time, you often see a decrease in progesterone first. The adrenal gland makes about twice as much testosterone or androgen through DHEA than the ovary. So if you're producing a high amount of testosterone and progesterone from the adrenal, then you're going to have better conversion to what we call peripheral estrogen.

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