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We thought we knew what menopause was, hot flashes, mood swings, maybe a mid-life crisis? But suddenly, social media starts whispering that if you’re over 35, you should be terrified of this mysterious thing called peri-menopause. So we started freaking out and asking what even is peri-menopause?
In this episode, Kimberly dives headfirst into the hormone pool to figure out what peri-menopause actually is, how it’s different from menopause, and whether we should all start stockpiling yams (anyone else remember the creams Samantha used in the Sex & the City 2 movie?). She then reports back to Meredith, who’s just trying to keep it together. We try to be mature adults and use the correct anatomical terms… but let’s be real, we’re still us. Va-jay-jay just rolls off the tongue, ya know?
So if you’ve been wondering what’s going on with your body, or you just want to laugh through our own hormonal confusion buckle up, babe. It’s about to get peri in here.
Our (very credible) sources include:
The National Institute on Aging (yep, a real NIH thing)
The Menopause Society
The American College of Obstetrics & Gynecology
The Cleveland Clinic
National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (UK, because we’re fancy like that)

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Original audio by Patrck Joseph (Thanks Patrick)

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