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Dec 2020
1h 18m

70. Women’s Hormones, PCOS, & Menopause ...

KELLY LEVEQUE
About this episode

Dr. Felice Gersh is a board-certified OB-GYN and Integrative Medicine practitioner. She taught as an Assistant Clinical Professor at the Keck USC School of Medicine for 12 years, and she is the founder and director of the Integrative Medical Group of Irvine. She dives deep into PCOS, menopause, and how the two have quite a lot in common. Every woman should understand how their bodies work so they can take ownership and control of the direction their health and their life goes.

You will learn about...

  • What PCOS is and the symptoms of it
  • Where your testosterone levels should be under normal circumstance
  • What causes the adrenal effects of PCOS
  • Supporting natural puberty
  • When menopause starts in women and what it means
  • Optimal ranges for estrogen and progesterone

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