How to Delay the Age of Menopause with Diet and Lifestyle Factors
Approximately half of the variability of age of menopause among women is explained by genetics. What behaviors or circumstances can help explain the rest?
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Thank you, Dr Gregor. Reading your book now on aging. Big fan.
This is bad news I had my kids late but I definitely rather they live longer😢
Esse risco só existe porque mulheres mais velhas tem maior probabilidade de gerar filhos com cromossomopatias, como a trissomia do 21.
Informação pela metade é perigosa e o doutor Greger deveria ter explicado melhor.
So, if a woman wants to postpone her menopause and live cancer free, she would need to be a vergetarian as early as possible, or switch to a veggie diet before she turns 40 to have a chance of reversing the bad effect of meat consumption…
Sooo…being vegan does?…does not? …change the age of menopause. Help me out someone with better comprehension than I please.
Listen up girl.. it’s a combination of stuff like-
Good whole vegwn food (eat more beans and lentils , nuts and seeds, greens {collard greens for example..so good} and veggies..and fruits… Eat mostly organic atleast the ones you don’t peel!)
Excercise
Qualuty Sleep 💤 (7/8-8hours of quality sleep)
Stress management
Supplement with b12 and d3 and omega 3s (tske a multi if necessary..)
That’s a ton of data and I’d have to re-watch or read the source papers to really understand, but I’ll just say that as mid-30’s millennials, my wife can’t wait for menopause. I would be impatient, too, if I had a uterus that kept painfully shedding chunks of flesh for roughly 10-20% of my life.
I guess just like exercise, there’s a tradeoff between longevity and comfort.
A whole lot of nothing. Thanks, Gregor.
Does it depend on how many eggs a woman has? When they run out no ovulation? What determines how many eggs a woman has?
Why would you want to extend time under estrogen?
I always enjoy these videos but this one in particular was too much all over the place and didn’t really answer the question. Also I don’t buy into idea that having a child later will cause the child to have a shorter lifespan from an older mother. Ugh, Dr Gregor I expect better videos from you, especially since this is an important topic for women.