Understanding Hormonal Changes at Every Stage of Life

Описание: Discover how women’s hormones shift through every stage of life, from PMS and fertility to midlife sleep changes, stress, and perimenopause.

Understand how women’s hormones shift throughout the entire lifespan—not just during puberty and menopause—and why symptoms like PMS, sleep changes, anxiety, and mood shifts can show up long before perimenopause.

Discover how birth control, estrogen dominance, stress, sleep, gut health, and hormone disruptors can all influence hormone balance, cycle symptoms, and the way women feel in their teens, 30s, and beyond.

Learn how tools like cycle tracking, targeted nutrition, magnesium, progesterone support, and personalized hormone care can help women work with their bodies instead of against them at every stage.

In this episode, I sit down with Alicia Barkholtz to talk about how women’s hormones shift throughout every stage of life—not just during puberty and menopause. We explore the fertile years, the often-overlooked hormone changes women can feel in their 30s, and how birth control, stress, sleep, gut health, and cycle syncing can all impact hormone balance. This conversation is a practical, empowering look at how women can better understand and support their bodies.

Alicia Barkholtz, FNP-C, is a board-certified Family Nurse Practitioner and a prominent voice at Forum Health, specializing in an integrative, "root-cause" approach to women’s hormone health. Her clinical expertise spans the complexities of perimenopause, menopause, PCOS, and metabolic dysfunction, with a particular focus on bioidentical hormone replacement therapy (BHRT) and overcoming weight loss resistance. Through her virtual clinic and educational community, Menopause & More, Alicia empowers women to move beyond standard symptom management by decoding complex lab data to optimize the interplay between gut, thyroid, and adrenal health.

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