September 29, 2025 • 18 mins
Dr. Mariza Snyder is a functional practitioner, author, and leading expert in women’s hormones and metabolic health. She is the host of the top-rated podcast Energized with Dr. Mariza (13M+ downloads), and the author of eight books, including the upcoming The Perimenopause Revolution (Hay House, Oct 2025). Her work helps midlife women understand and harness the power of hormone balance, metabolic resilience, and self-advocacy during one of the most pivotal stages of life.
Her forthcoming book The Perimenopause Revolution (Hay House, October 2025) which is breaking the silence around one of the biggest, yet least understood, transitions in a woman’s life: perimenopause and its impact on relationships.
Her forthcoming book The Perimenopause Revolution (Hay House, October 2025) which is breaking the silence around one of the biggest, yet least understood, transitions in a woman’s life: perimenopause and its impact on relationships.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome back to the Doctor Wendywall Show on KFI AM
six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. I have
a guest on the show who, when I started reading
some of her work, immediately said to myself, Oh, that's
what happened to me. You know, there's so much talk
in our culture right now about menopause, but very little
(00:24):
about perry menopause. It's almost like people are like, Oh, really,
is that really a thing? Or do we kind of
make this up? But let me tell you. My next
guest is a specialist if you can say that, in
Perry menopause and is singing from the rafters news that
every woman can use. Her name is doctor Mariza Snyder.
(00:46):
She's a functional practitioner and a seven time best selling
author and tries to make all of the science around
hormones relatable for everybody. Welcome doctor Mariza, I say it right,
Maria Snyder.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Yes, yes, thank you so much for having me, Wendy.
It's such a pleasure.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
So first of all, let us talk about what is
perimenopause and how early can it show up?
Speaker 2 (01:12):
I love this question, and this is a question that
my patients ask me the most. Am I in perimenopause.
Perrimenopause is before to ten year transition before menopause, and
if we were defined menopause, which I know, it's having
its own moment. It's basically that day and time where
you haven't had a period for twelve consecutive months, but
(01:32):
there are many years before that where your hormones begin
to start shifting wildly and declining. And as a result,
because these hormones are more than reproductive hormones, their whole
body hormones, everything from your mood to your metabolism to
your sleep can feel off. Unfortunately, for decades, women have
suffered in silence. But now we are finally talking about it.
(01:54):
And this is our moment because women are ready to
not be dismissed anymore and we are sharing our stories.
And what I love about this window of opportunity that
I call perimenopause is that it's not the beginning of
the end, it's the beginning of your next most powerful chapter. Well.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
I love to remind people too, that we are the
only species on the planet except killer whales and pilot whales,
that actually has menopause a full third of a woman's
life where she is vibrant and energetic and wise and
just fabulous and also sterile. And anthropologists would say that
(02:33):
we evolve to have this sterility this third of our
life so that we could be more impactful to the tribe,
the village, the culture at large. I like to say
that menopausal women run the world, even if some of
them are still doing it through their power husbands. There's
still a lot of power women out there to running
the world. But it's those years beforehand that perry menopause
(02:58):
that nobody told me, And you know, doctor Snyder, women
are having babies later and later, and sometimes perimenopause and
pregnancy and breastfeeding are running right up against each other,
aren't they.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Yes, they are. And this was my experience. I had
my beautiful son at forty one years old, and I
breastped him until I was forty three. And I'll never
forget when I thought I was at the end of
my postpartum journey and I was feeling really good, and
there was a small part of me that thought, well,
maybe I pushed perimenopause back a little bit. But about
(03:34):
five months later my runway was pretty short between postpartum
and perimenopause. I started experiencing a lot of the most
common perimenopausal symptoms. I started experiencing mood swings, brain fogs,
sleep issues, low mental energy. I just I didn't feel
like myself, and I knew that I basically hop skipped
(03:56):
from postpartum directly into perimenopause. And that is the situation
for millions of women today who are having children later
as they know, as they can choose to, as they're
running their careers, and is so destabilizing for women because
so often we weren't educated about what can happen when
we're having children later in life and how that can
(04:18):
run into the perimenopause transition.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
It's funny because I was talking to my twenty seven
year old daughter yesterday and I was saying, oh, you know,
she's complaining about having to, you know, buy some female
items at the drug store. And I was just like, Oh,
it's so great, that's behind me. You know, I haven't
had that in twenty years. And She's like twenty years
is that possible. I'm like, Oh, get ready. We get
(04:40):
menopause and perimenopause early in our family, and in my case,
I think it really started while I was breastfeeding gentlemen,
you should be educated about this if you're listening on
behalf of your wives or girlfriends. But as doctor Snyder said,
perimenopause can take four to ten years, and what it
might involve. It's not like somebody flips a switch one
(05:02):
day and says, okay, okay, all your menstruation stops. That's it.
There's this period of it might show up unannounced and
last for fifteen days, and then it might disappear for
four months and you're like, oh, okay, I'm done, and
then oh no, no, then it comes up and just
spots for a whole bunch of times, and you're just like,
am I on? Am I off? And if you can
(05:24):
imagine the hormones that impact our minds at that time,
it was I mean I was breasting. I'm on the
same schedule as you were. I had my second baby
at forty one, nursed for three years, so I literally
got that kid off the nipple, and all of a
sudden I was thrown into menopause. It was crazy.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
How it's a journey.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
You didn't answer the question about how.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Yeah, let's talk about the earliness. So natural menopause can
happen anywhere between forty five and fifty five years old,
and I would say the average age is usually an
early fifties. Fifty one is typically the average average age.
Yet you know, if natural menopause can be as early
as forty five, many women are beginning to feel symptoms
of perimenopause as early as their mid to late thirties.
(06:10):
And what's sneaky about it? Just like you said, often
it doesn't just announce itself one day. There's no test
to diagnose perimenopause. It takes an average of four to
six office visits for your doctor to connect the dots
between your symptoms and you actually being in perimenopause or menopause.
And more importantly, often it feels like you mentioned very
(06:32):
mood or cognitive related symptoms. I call them brain related symptoms.
But they can come and go. You know, one day
you feel fine, the next day you don't feel like yourself.
And that's why so often women are dismissed and told, oh,
you know you're still cycling, you're fine, or oh, it's
just age, or it's just stress, or you're just a
mom because often the symptoms look like the daily like
(06:55):
an exacerbation of the daily pain points of everyday life
that women have been is just normal. When it's not normal.
Your body is going through a profound hormone transition and
everything is shifting, including your brain.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
And think about what they're juggling, often at the peak
of their careers, and juggling children and running a household,
and all of a sudden, your brain is not functioning
like it's supposed to. It's frustrating.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Oh, it is frustrating. It's destabilizing, and it is I
will tell you so many of my patients have had
to grieve and mourn their former selves because they just
they didn't know that they were going to feel this way.
And this is why I wrote my book, The Perimenopause Revolution.
I wanted women to understand what was going on with
(07:42):
their bodies. This isn't bikini medicine that we're talking about, right,
not between just the bikini areas. This is a full
body recalibration that can really take us by surprise if
we are not educated about it.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Okay, doctor Snyder, we have to go to a break.
When we come back, let's talk about news. You can
use some treatment, some things women can be doing, but
also how this impacts their relationships. And what they can
be doing there. My guest is doctor Marisa Snyder, and
she is a specialist in perimenopause. You are listening to
the Doctor Wendy Wall Show on KFI AM six forty.
(08:16):
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. My guest, doctor
Marisa Snyder, is the author, best selling author. What's your
most recent book? You've written so many, Marisa.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
The most recent book that's coming out is The Perimenopause Revolution.
This book is the roadmap that every midlife woman needs
to feel alive and to feel energized in her body.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
And I gotta say peri. Menopause is finally starting to
really trend online. Some people call it a second puberty,
and women are really craving solutions. So before we get
into solutions, let's talk a little bit about how this
change in our brains that can start as early as
age thirty five, can impact our relationships.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
This is session important question, and this is you know,
here's what no one tells you. Perimenopause touches every part
of your life, including your most important relationships. When your
hormones are shifting, your brain is literally rewiring, and often
you are running on fumes. Just like you mentioned earlier.
So it's easy to feel disconnected from your partner, from
(09:19):
your kids, sometimes even from yourself. And in those romantic relationships,
what a lot of my patients tell me is their
libido just packs its bags and flutters out the door.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
The mood may like I watch those those suitcases walk
out the door.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Yeah, and the smallest things, all of a sudden, may
feel like too much. With your family, you may find
yourself overreacting or checking out completely, or just feeling under
like overtouched, or as my patients like to call it, overstimulated.
They're just feeling everything feels intense, and it's hard to
show up for the people that matter most to you.
(09:59):
And what I've aways want women to know is that
they are not broken. Right. You are in the significant transition,
and the most powerful thing that we can do is
lead with grace, compassion, and communication. And I would let
to let partners know that you know, this is a
very I mean, it's temporary in the sense that we're
talking about a four to ten plus year transition, but
(10:20):
it's real.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Yeah, that's not so temporary when you think of it
as a decade.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Joke, that that's not a transition. That's a career.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
It's a career exactly. You know. You mentioned something earlier
that I found fascinating. You say, it's for some people,
it's about mourning the loss of what was. Because this
is a conversation partly about physiology and partly about our
psychological identity. Right, there is this thinking in our culture
(10:49):
that a lot of young women have been spoon fed
that once you are no longer of reproductive age, that
you are somehow irrelevant. And I don't think we've done
enough to really, you know, get excited about what happens
when menopause happens, and the empowering place that it can
(11:11):
be for women and that they can feel so great. So,
you know, rather than mourning this loss of oh I'm
not this young, hot, sexy, fertile woman, how about looking
to the future and talking about what it is and
the powerful woman you're growing into. As I used to
say to people, Look now I'm a fully developed babe.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
All right, Oh yeah, absolutely, I mean this is we're
stepping into the most powerful chapter yet and we get
to stand on our hard one lessons, all of the
things that we've accomplished, Like we get to take all
of that with us, and perimenopause is the time of discernment.
We get to decide what we want to bring with
(11:54):
us in our next chapter and what we want to
let go of whatever beliefs have been holding you back
or relateships or you know, establishing those boundaries become so important.
I feel like there is a freedom about stepping into
menopause and beyond, and we really get to chart that
course on our terms. The more that we embrace that,
(12:15):
ooh man, watch out. I love a lot of women
stepping into this.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
This is the happiest time of my life. Now, you
should know, Marisa. When I was young and in my twenties,
I was highly sexualized by our culture and I just
ate it all hook line and sinker and I was hot, hot, hot, right,
But I was still this smart nerd inside. But nobody
could hear me talking because they were looking at my
(12:42):
beautiful face. And now that I'm a woman of a
certain age, I like to say that my face has
finally grown into my brain and it's wonderful. I love
this age. I love to not be stared at every
time I go out in public, and I know I
hear people going, oh, the plight of the pretty girl.
I don't even want to hear you complain, But honestly,
when you're objectified for two decades and you're always put
(13:04):
blinders on when you walk in public places because there's
some guy trying to catch your eye, to have all
that behind you is such a freeing feeling for me.
I love it. I absolutely love it. Now let's talk
about physiology a bit. What do you recommend regarding food
and other lifestyle Is there anything we can be doing biologically,
anything we should be taking to help the symptoms.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Yes, this is such a great question, and this is
all this is what the book is about. Lifestyle medicine
is going to be the biggest lever for many of us.
I always say, start by stabilizing your blood sugar, because
it is all about your cellular energy and your cardio
metabolic health. I want to set you up to feel
energized in that second half of your life, but I
also want your eighty year old self to be so
(13:48):
grateful that you took care of yourself in this metabolic
window of opportunity. So stabilizing your blood sugar with your
meals is one of the fastest ways to reclaim your energy,
your mood and your brain power. So that means protein
at every meal. Ditch the ultra process carbs. Move your
body daily, even if it's just ten minutes of walking
after your biggest meals. And then the other thing that
(14:11):
I think is such a big part of feeling energized
and having just hiring on all cylinders is making sure
that you are prioritizing sleep like it is a sacred act.
So go to bed and wake up at the same
time each day, get that morning sunlight to help reset
your circadian rhythm, and just honor that process, like have
a wind down routine that feels good to you. And lastly,
(14:35):
track your cycle and your symptom so that you can
connect the dots and advocate for yourself so when you
feel like you're needing something like supplement support or hormone
replacement therapy, you can have that conversation with your provider
to get the solutions that you deserve and most likely
you're going to need.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
You know, sleep is so important to me, and I'm
this is a tragedy for me to tell you, good doctor,
of what's happened to me lately. I realize that when
I drink wine, I don't get a good night's sleep.
I'm wide awake at three am. I thought it was menopause.
I thought it was hormones. No, no, no, it was
the flip and wine. And so I drink very little now,
(15:15):
and when I do drink, I wake up with a
wop and headache at three in the morning. And sometimes
I say that's worth it. But for the most part,
I plan my sleep starting at four in the afternoon.
I think things like, how early can I eat so
that I don't have not up all night digesting food?
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Right?
Speaker 1 (15:34):
How can I make sure I don't drink alcohol. By
the way, there's a great bubbly tea at Trader Joe's.
They didn't pay me to say this, and it's made
by like a Danish company and you put it in
a champagne glass and it tastes exactly like prosecco. So
that's my go to. And then I take melatonin. Hey,
(15:56):
can I get some free advice? Is it bad to
take melotonin every night?
Speaker 2 (16:00):
No, not at all. I am a big fan of melatonin,
particularly in perimenopause, melitonin levels are dropping, and if melatonin
is helping you to get deep, RESTful sleep, quality sleep,
let me tell you, the difference between you getting quality
sleep and not usually will make or break somebody's next day.
(16:21):
So if melatonin is helping, especially as it's declining, I
am a full body yes to melatonin. I'm also a
big yes to oral micronized progesterone. I think that that
can really help support women not only get to sleep,
but also stay asleep.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Stay asleep, that's the problem. Well, I'll tell you the
melatonin is given some business to my therapist because I
dream so much on I get up in the morning
and write down my dream, so she has something to analyze. Okay,
let's make sure before we go that our listeners know
where they can get your book. Tell us again, doctor Snyder,
what the book is called and where they can find it.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Yeah. I love this. Although the book is called The
Perimenopause Revolution, and I wrote it because women should never
have to suffer in silence. And this book is all
about not only knowing what is going on with your body,
identifying if you're imperimentopause, having all the lifestyle strategies that
are doable. You know, again, as you and I talked
about earlier, this is I always think this this time
(17:19):
in our lives is almost lappable because we have everything
going on, and so a lot of the actionable lifestyle
recommendations I make in this book are doable, like you
can get them into your life. And there is a
five week reset plan with recipes, meal plan, workout videos,
more and evening routines everything you need to at the
(17:41):
end of that five days, feel more lives and you
can grab the book anywhere books are sold. I have
amazing bonuses that go with the book. And again, this
book is designed to help women just thrive and feel
stronger in the second half of their lives.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
That's what we want to do, feel stronger. Thanks so
much for joining us, Doctor Marisa Snyder. When we come back,
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KFI AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app
Welcome back to the Doctor Wendywall Show on KFI AM
six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. I have
a guest on the show who, when I started reading
some of her work, immediately said to myself, Oh, that's
what happened to me. You know, there's so much talk
in our culture right now about menopause, but very little
(00:24):
about perry menopause. It's almost like people are like, Oh, really,
is that really a thing? Or do we kind of
make this up? But let me tell you. My next
guest is a specialist if you can say that, in
Perry menopause and is singing from the rafters news that
every woman can use. Her name is doctor Mariza Snyder.
(00:46):
She's a functional practitioner and a seven time best selling
author and tries to make all of the science around
hormones relatable for everybody. Welcome doctor Mariza, I say it right,
Maria Snyder.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Yes, yes, thank you so much for having me, Wendy.
It's such a pleasure.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
So first of all, let us talk about what is
perimenopause and how early can it show up?
Speaker 2 (01:12):
I love this question, and this is a question that
my patients ask me the most. Am I in perimenopause.
Perrimenopause is before to ten year transition before menopause, and
if we were defined menopause, which I know, it's having
its own moment. It's basically that day and time where
you haven't had a period for twelve consecutive months, but
(01:32):
there are many years before that where your hormones begin
to start shifting wildly and declining. And as a result,
because these hormones are more than reproductive hormones, their whole
body hormones, everything from your mood to your metabolism to
your sleep can feel off. Unfortunately, for decades, women have
suffered in silence. But now we are finally talking about it.
(01:54):
And this is our moment because women are ready to
not be dismissed anymore and we are sharing our stories.
And what I love about this window of opportunity that
I call perimenopause is that it's not the beginning of
the end, it's the beginning of your next most powerful chapter. Well.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
I love to remind people too, that we are the
only species on the planet except killer whales and pilot whales,
that actually has menopause a full third of a woman's
life where she is vibrant and energetic and wise and
just fabulous and also sterile. And anthropologists would say that
(02:33):
we evolve to have this sterility this third of our
life so that we could be more impactful to the tribe,
the village, the culture at large. I like to say
that menopausal women run the world, even if some of
them are still doing it through their power husbands. There's
still a lot of power women out there to running
the world. But it's those years beforehand that perry menopause
(02:58):
that nobody told me, And you know, doctor Snyder, women
are having babies later and later, and sometimes perimenopause and
pregnancy and breastfeeding are running right up against each other,
aren't they.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Yes, they are. And this was my experience. I had
my beautiful son at forty one years old, and I
breastped him until I was forty three. And I'll never
forget when I thought I was at the end of
my postpartum journey and I was feeling really good, and
there was a small part of me that thought, well,
maybe I pushed perimenopause back a little bit. But about
(03:34):
five months later my runway was pretty short between postpartum
and perimenopause. I started experiencing a lot of the most
common perimenopausal symptoms. I started experiencing mood swings, brain fogs,
sleep issues, low mental energy. I just I didn't feel
like myself, and I knew that I basically hop skipped
(03:56):
from postpartum directly into perimenopause. And that is the situation
for millions of women today who are having children later
as they know, as they can choose to, as they're
running their careers, and is so destabilizing for women because
so often we weren't educated about what can happen when
we're having children later in life and how that can
(04:18):
run into the perimenopause transition.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
It's funny because I was talking to my twenty seven
year old daughter yesterday and I was saying, oh, you know,
she's complaining about having to, you know, buy some female
items at the drug store. And I was just like, Oh,
it's so great, that's behind me. You know, I haven't
had that in twenty years. And She's like twenty years
is that possible. I'm like, Oh, get ready. We get
(04:40):
menopause and perimenopause early in our family, and in my case,
I think it really started while I was breastfeeding gentlemen,
you should be educated about this if you're listening on
behalf of your wives or girlfriends. But as doctor Snyder said,
perimenopause can take four to ten years, and what it
might involve. It's not like somebody flips a switch one
(05:02):
day and says, okay, okay, all your menstruation stops. That's it.
There's this period of it might show up unannounced and
last for fifteen days, and then it might disappear for
four months and you're like, oh, okay, I'm done, and
then oh no, no, then it comes up and just
spots for a whole bunch of times, and you're just like,
am I on? Am I off? And if you can
(05:24):
imagine the hormones that impact our minds at that time,
it was I mean I was breasting. I'm on the
same schedule as you were. I had my second baby
at forty one, nursed for three years, so I literally
got that kid off the nipple, and all of a
sudden I was thrown into menopause. It was crazy.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
How it's a journey.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
You didn't answer the question about how.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Yeah, let's talk about the earliness. So natural menopause can
happen anywhere between forty five and fifty five years old,
and I would say the average age is usually an
early fifties. Fifty one is typically the average average age.
Yet you know, if natural menopause can be as early
as forty five, many women are beginning to feel symptoms
of perimenopause as early as their mid to late thirties.
(06:10):
And what's sneaky about it? Just like you said, often
it doesn't just announce itself one day. There's no test
to diagnose perimenopause. It takes an average of four to
six office visits for your doctor to connect the dots
between your symptoms and you actually being in perimenopause or menopause.
And more importantly, often it feels like you mentioned very
(06:32):
mood or cognitive related symptoms. I call them brain related symptoms.
But they can come and go. You know, one day
you feel fine, the next day you don't feel like yourself.
And that's why so often women are dismissed and told, oh,
you know you're still cycling, you're fine, or oh, it's
just age, or it's just stress, or you're just a
mom because often the symptoms look like the daily like
(06:55):
an exacerbation of the daily pain points of everyday life
that women have been is just normal. When it's not normal.
Your body is going through a profound hormone transition and
everything is shifting, including your brain.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
And think about what they're juggling, often at the peak
of their careers, and juggling children and running a household,
and all of a sudden, your brain is not functioning
like it's supposed to. It's frustrating.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Oh, it is frustrating. It's destabilizing, and it is I
will tell you so many of my patients have had
to grieve and mourn their former selves because they just
they didn't know that they were going to feel this way.
And this is why I wrote my book, The Perimenopause Revolution.
I wanted women to understand what was going on with
(07:42):
their bodies. This isn't bikini medicine that we're talking about, right,
not between just the bikini areas. This is a full
body recalibration that can really take us by surprise if
we are not educated about it.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Okay, doctor Snyder, we have to go to a break.
When we come back, let's talk about news. You can
use some treatment, some things women can be doing, but
also how this impacts their relationships. And what they can
be doing there. My guest is doctor Marisa Snyder, and
she is a specialist in perimenopause. You are listening to
the Doctor Wendy Wall Show on KFI AM six forty.
(08:16):
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. My guest, doctor
Marisa Snyder, is the author, best selling author. What's your
most recent book? You've written so many, Marisa.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
The most recent book that's coming out is The Perimenopause Revolution.
This book is the roadmap that every midlife woman needs
to feel alive and to feel energized in her body.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
And I gotta say peri. Menopause is finally starting to
really trend online. Some people call it a second puberty,
and women are really craving solutions. So before we get
into solutions, let's talk a little bit about how this
change in our brains that can start as early as
age thirty five, can impact our relationships.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
This is session important question, and this is you know,
here's what no one tells you. Perimenopause touches every part
of your life, including your most important relationships. When your
hormones are shifting, your brain is literally rewiring, and often
you are running on fumes. Just like you mentioned earlier.
So it's easy to feel disconnected from your partner, from
(09:19):
your kids, sometimes even from yourself. And in those romantic relationships,
what a lot of my patients tell me is their
libido just packs its bags and flutters out the door.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
The mood may like I watch those those suitcases walk
out the door.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Yeah, and the smallest things, all of a sudden, may
feel like too much. With your family, you may find
yourself overreacting or checking out completely, or just feeling under
like overtouched, or as my patients like to call it, overstimulated.
They're just feeling everything feels intense, and it's hard to
show up for the people that matter most to you.
(09:59):
And what I've aways want women to know is that
they are not broken. Right. You are in the significant transition,
and the most powerful thing that we can do is
lead with grace, compassion, and communication. And I would let
to let partners know that you know, this is a
very I mean, it's temporary in the sense that we're
talking about a four to ten plus year transition, but
(10:20):
it's real.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Yeah, that's not so temporary when you think of it
as a decade.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Joke, that that's not a transition. That's a career.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
It's a career exactly. You know. You mentioned something earlier
that I found fascinating. You say, it's for some people,
it's about mourning the loss of what was. Because this
is a conversation partly about physiology and partly about our
psychological identity. Right, there is this thinking in our culture
(10:49):
that a lot of young women have been spoon fed
that once you are no longer of reproductive age, that
you are somehow irrelevant. And I don't think we've done
enough to really, you know, get excited about what happens
when menopause happens, and the empowering place that it can
(11:11):
be for women and that they can feel so great. So,
you know, rather than mourning this loss of oh I'm
not this young, hot, sexy, fertile woman, how about looking
to the future and talking about what it is and
the powerful woman you're growing into. As I used to
say to people, Look now I'm a fully developed babe.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
All right, Oh yeah, absolutely, I mean this is we're
stepping into the most powerful chapter yet and we get
to stand on our hard one lessons, all of the
things that we've accomplished, Like we get to take all
of that with us, and perimenopause is the time of discernment.
We get to decide what we want to bring with
(11:54):
us in our next chapter and what we want to
let go of whatever beliefs have been holding you back
or relateships or you know, establishing those boundaries become so important.
I feel like there is a freedom about stepping into
menopause and beyond, and we really get to chart that
course on our terms. The more that we embrace that,
(12:15):
ooh man, watch out. I love a lot of women
stepping into this.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
This is the happiest time of my life. Now, you
should know, Marisa. When I was young and in my twenties,
I was highly sexualized by our culture and I just
ate it all hook line and sinker and I was hot, hot, hot, right,
But I was still this smart nerd inside. But nobody
could hear me talking because they were looking at my
(12:42):
beautiful face. And now that I'm a woman of a
certain age, I like to say that my face has
finally grown into my brain and it's wonderful. I love
this age. I love to not be stared at every
time I go out in public, and I know I
hear people going, oh, the plight of the pretty girl.
I don't even want to hear you complain, But honestly,
when you're objectified for two decades and you're always put
(13:04):
blinders on when you walk in public places because there's
some guy trying to catch your eye, to have all
that behind you is such a freeing feeling for me.
I love it. I absolutely love it. Now let's talk
about physiology a bit. What do you recommend regarding food
and other lifestyle Is there anything we can be doing biologically,
anything we should be taking to help the symptoms.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Yes, this is such a great question, and this is
all this is what the book is about. Lifestyle medicine
is going to be the biggest lever for many of us.
I always say, start by stabilizing your blood sugar, because
it is all about your cellular energy and your cardio
metabolic health. I want to set you up to feel
energized in that second half of your life, but I
also want your eighty year old self to be so
(13:48):
grateful that you took care of yourself in this metabolic
window of opportunity. So stabilizing your blood sugar with your
meals is one of the fastest ways to reclaim your energy,
your mood and your brain power. So that means protein
at every meal. Ditch the ultra process carbs. Move your
body daily, even if it's just ten minutes of walking
after your biggest meals. And then the other thing that
(14:11):
I think is such a big part of feeling energized
and having just hiring on all cylinders is making sure
that you are prioritizing sleep like it is a sacred act.
So go to bed and wake up at the same
time each day, get that morning sunlight to help reset
your circadian rhythm, and just honor that process, like have
a wind down routine that feels good to you. And lastly,
(14:35):
track your cycle and your symptom so that you can
connect the dots and advocate for yourself so when you
feel like you're needing something like supplement support or hormone
replacement therapy, you can have that conversation with your provider
to get the solutions that you deserve and most likely
you're going to need.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
You know, sleep is so important to me, and I'm
this is a tragedy for me to tell you, good doctor,
of what's happened to me lately. I realize that when
I drink wine, I don't get a good night's sleep.
I'm wide awake at three am. I thought it was menopause.
I thought it was hormones. No, no, no, it was
the flip and wine. And so I drink very little now,
(15:15):
and when I do drink, I wake up with a
wop and headache at three in the morning. And sometimes
I say that's worth it. But for the most part,
I plan my sleep starting at four in the afternoon.
I think things like, how early can I eat so
that I don't have not up all night digesting food?
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Right?
Speaker 1 (15:34):
How can I make sure I don't drink alcohol. By
the way, there's a great bubbly tea at Trader Joe's.
They didn't pay me to say this, and it's made
by like a Danish company and you put it in
a champagne glass and it tastes exactly like prosecco. So
that's my go to. And then I take melatonin. Hey,
(15:56):
can I get some free advice? Is it bad to
take melotonin every night?
Speaker 2 (16:00):
No, not at all. I am a big fan of melatonin,
particularly in perimenopause, melitonin levels are dropping, and if melatonin
is helping you to get deep, RESTful sleep, quality sleep,
let me tell you, the difference between you getting quality
sleep and not usually will make or break somebody's next day.
(16:21):
So if melatonin is helping, especially as it's declining, I
am a full body yes to melatonin. I'm also a
big yes to oral micronized progesterone. I think that that
can really help support women not only get to sleep,
but also stay asleep.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Stay asleep, that's the problem. Well, I'll tell you the
melatonin is given some business to my therapist because I
dream so much on I get up in the morning
and write down my dream, so she has something to analyze. Okay,
let's make sure before we go that our listeners know
where they can get your book. Tell us again, doctor Snyder,
what the book is called and where they can find it.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Yeah. I love this. Although the book is called The
Perimenopause Revolution, and I wrote it because women should never
have to suffer in silence. And this book is all
about not only knowing what is going on with your body,
identifying if you're imperimentopause, having all the lifestyle strategies that
are doable. You know, again, as you and I talked
about earlier, this is I always think this this time
(17:19):
in our lives is almost lappable because we have everything
going on, and so a lot of the actionable lifestyle
recommendations I make in this book are doable, like you
can get them into your life. And there is a
five week reset plan with recipes, meal plan, workout videos,
more and evening routines everything you need to at the
(17:41):
end of that five days, feel more lives and you
can grab the book anywhere books are sold. I have
amazing bonuses that go with the book. And again, this
book is designed to help women just thrive and feel
stronger in the second half of their lives.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
That's what we want to do, feel stronger. Thanks so
much for joining us, Doctor Marisa Snyder. When we come back,
there's one psychology test. It's a personality test that's considered
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