⚠️ CW: This video mentions suicide and mental health. If you’re struggling, please reach out for support.
🧠 Hormones don’t just affect periods or hot flushes - they also shape our brain chemistry.
⤵ During the perimenopause and menopause, oestrogen levels drop sharply. Oestrogen plays a key role in mood regulation, protecting against anxiety and depression. When it declines, some women experience intense mood swings, hopelessness or even thoughts of ending their life.
It’s confronting, but so important to talk about: suicide rates in women peak during this stage of life and breaking the silence, matters.
In this week’s episode, we’re deep diving on hormones. Join myself and experts like prof_jayashri_kulkarni as we explore the science behind them, and what lesser-known impacts they have on our bodies.
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