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Oct 2024
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Ben Azadi
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Today, I am blessed to have a conversation with menopause educator Andrea Donsky. Andrea shares her 14-year journey through perimenopause, highlighting symptoms like fatigue, brain fog, and sleep disturbances. We discuss the importance of understanding and managing these symptoms through nutrition, lifestyle changes, and supplements. Andrea emphasizes whole foods and strength training, while I introduce the concept of "Vitamin G" for gratitude. Andrea's research, including surveys with over 5,000 women, underscores the need for better education on menopause. This episode aims to empower women over 40 to take charge of their health.


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Signs and Symptoms Survey: You can find a menopause symptom checklist provided by the National Menopause Foundation, which covers a wide range of both physical and psychological changes experienced during perimenopause, menopause, and post-menopause. This is a great tool for tracking symptoms and discussing them with healthcare providers. You can access the checklist here​

National Menopause Foundation


Menopause Society: The Menopause Society (formerly NAMS) offers detailed resources on menopause symptoms, including surveys on how these symptoms affect different areas of life such as sleep, anxiety, and doctor visits. You can explore their information and resources here

The Menopause Society

The Menopause Society


Menopause Charity: The Menopause Charity provides a downloadable symptom checker, which helps track symptoms and their severity, providing an essential tool for managing menopause-related health. You can access this resource here

The Menopause Charity


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As a Menopause Educator and researcher, as well as a nutritionist, Andrea Donsky and her team at Morphus had discovered that there are over 100+ different symptoms of perimenopause and menopause! Today you'll not only learn what some of them are but also how to thrive regardless! 100 is a big number and probably, so much higher than most would assume exist. Andrea co-founded Morphus, a company born from the desire to help women of age get through the effects of menopause more gracefully. Based on their research, they found that 20% of women don't realize or fully know what stage of perimenopause or menopause they’re even in.


Read “Unjunk Your Junk Food” by Andrea Donsky

👉 https://kampke.to/unjunkyourjunk


𝘼𝘿𝘿𝙄𝙏𝙄𝙊𝙉𝘼𝙇 𝙍𝙀𝘼𝘿𝙄𝙉𝙂 & 𝙎𝙏𝙐𝘿𝙄𝙀𝙎 𝙈𝙀𝙉𝙏𝙄𝙊𝙉𝙀𝘿

📌 https://kampke.to/632/references


𝘾𝙊𝙉𝙉𝙀𝘾𝙏 𝙒𝙄𝙏𝙃 𝘼𝙉𝘿𝙍𝙀𝘼 𝘿𝙊𝙉𝙎𝙆𝙔


▷ Official Site: https://andreadonsky.com

▷ Morphus: https://wearemorphus.com

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