Recognizing the Signs and Symptoms of Menopause: What Every Woman Should Know

Описание: Hot flashes, night sweats, mood swings, brain fog — menopause can affect every part of a woman’s body and mind. In this video, Dr. Sarah Allen breaks down the most common signs and symptoms of menopause and explains how hormonal changes impact your sleep, skin, cognition, and overall wellbeing.
Learn how shifting estrogen and progesterone levels influence everything from difficulty sleeping and irritability to word-finding issues, dry skin, and thinning hair. Dr. Allen also discusses why understanding these early signals matters for perimenopausal women and how proactive, evidence-based hormone therapy can restore balance and confidence.
Whether you’re navigating menopause yourself or supporting patients through it, this conversation offers a clear, clinical yet compassionate overview of what’s happening inside the body — and what you can do about it.

00:00 Introduction
00:42 Learning Objectives
00:47 Symptom spectrum
1:59 Hot Flashes/Vasomotor Symptoms
04:24 Risk factors for hot flashes
05:11 Non-hormonal treatments for hot flashes
05:58 Genitourinary Syndrome of Menopause (GSM) Physiology
09:01 GSM Symptoms and treatments
09:29 Sexual Dysfunction
12:41 Sleep Disturbances
14:25 Mood Changes
15:40 Cognitive Changes
19:05 Muscle and Joint Pain
20:18 Skin Changes during menopause and perimenopause
21:16 Collagen and Elastin changes with Perimenopause
22:17 Hair Changes
24:35 Changes in body habitus
27:24 Headaches and Migraines
29:43 Clinical Pearls and Key Takeaways