Women's Reproductive Aging & Hormone Replacement Therapy | Dr. Jennifer Garrison
Women's Reproductive Aging & Hormone Replacement Therapy | Dr. Jennifer Garrison
Live Longer World Podcast #27
“In general, hormone replacement therapy is beneficial for most women and while you need to start it as close to menopause as possible, there’s a huge benefit in terms of cardiovascular disease risk, osteoporosis. And that’s because estrogen and progesterone signaling to your bone is really important for maintaining bone density. So there’s lots of good reasons to take it.”
My guest today is Dr. Jennifer Garrison. She is a an Assistant professor at the Buck Institute for research on aging where she runs her own lab and studies women's reproductive aging. In today’s conversation we discussed:
Menopause and it’s effect on women’s health
Hormone replacement therapy and its benefits
How increasing the number of quality eggs a woman has at age 40 by just 1% can be a game changer
The role of the brain in female reproductive aging
Genetics and ovarian aging
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Hope you enjoy the conversation!
Aastha
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Time Stamps:
0:00 Intro
1:38 Jennifer Garrison Intro
2:32 Ovarian aging & health risks
5:23 Progression of Ovarian aging
8:49 Menopause and negative health effects
10:34 Hypothalamus & Mind body communication
14:40 Reproductive & Equality Initiatives
18:21 Biological Clock for Reproductive aging
20:20 Tweaking hormonal cues
22:07 Number of eggs vs. Quality of eggs
25:00 Genetics in ovarian aging
26:21 Understanding family history
27:39 Evolutionary benefit to Menopause?
32:33 Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) & its benefits
38:28 Narrow window for HRT
40:08 Perimenopause
42:56 Women’s health funding
45:14 Average age girls start menstruating is declining
49:10 PCOS
52:42 Athletes and irregular cycles
56:36 Individualized menopause symptoms
1:00:38 Exercise and ovarian aging
1:02:00 Support Jennifer's work
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