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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha, and welcome to stuff

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Speaker 1: I've never told your protective I heart.

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Speaker 2: Radio, and welcome to another edition of Monday Money, where

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Speaker 2: I ponder where I am in life and then make

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Speaker 2: y'all ponder for me as well. That's all about right,

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Speaker 2: right Annie?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, sure, So this is the first episode of the

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Speaker 1: new Year. I think it's appropriate because we're all thinking

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Speaker 1: about health and stuff.

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Speaker 2: It's true, we are thinking about health, and I guess

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Speaker 2: because I'm coming upon officially being mid forties, this is

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Speaker 2: the year and if it was a Korean age, I

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Speaker 2: would already ground up a year, which I already do

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Speaker 2: in my head that I am also thinking about the

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Speaker 2: midlife crisis thing that doesn't really exist anymore for those

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Speaker 2: who are genet slash millennials. It's just more like a

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Speaker 2: crisis and like that's happened for the last ten years.

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Speaker 2: But with that, it's like all the things that are changing,

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Speaker 2: and now I'm starting to question, well, why am I

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Speaker 2: Why are things changing? Why is my body doing these things?

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Speaker 2: And you know, we typically make jokes about being old

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Speaker 2: or all these things, and yeah, and I have reached

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Speaker 2: that age where I now have the several all the

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Speaker 2: several feelings and concerns essentially, and well all the elements,

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Speaker 2: it feels like, not all the elements, but like just

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Speaker 2: definitely things that are like this didn't happen two years ago.

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Speaker 2: What is this? This is neat And I say that sarcastically.

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Speaker 2: And of course a part of my information circle includes

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Speaker 2: TikTok now and it's FYP that seems to both haunt

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Speaker 2: me and taunt me and teach me things, so all

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Speaker 2: of those those like it's the good, the bad, and

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Speaker 2: ugh type of situation. So and recently I have made

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Speaker 2: it onto Harry menopause TikTok menopausal TikTok, which, by the way,

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Speaker 2: has started to become a money maker, especially on TikTok.

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Speaker 2: And there was a whole blue article that I could

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Speaker 2: to subscribe to it, being real honest, y'all about other

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Speaker 2: articles talking more about money makers, but not specific to TikTok.

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Speaker 2: And we're going to talk about that, not the TikTok part,

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Speaker 2: but the money making later on in this episode. But

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Speaker 2: it has apparently like a fifteen billion dollar industry that

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Speaker 2: has surged, so quite interesting to me, of course, people

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Speaker 2: things have been lacking. So first, here's some facts about

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Speaker 2: things you may or may not know about perimenopausal and menopause.

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Speaker 2: And this is according to the Mayo Clinic quote. Perimenopause

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Speaker 2: means around menopause and refers to the time during which

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Speaker 2: your body makes the natural transition to menopause, marking the

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Speaker 2: end of the reproductive years. Perimenopause is also called the

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Speaker 2: menopausal transition. Women start perimenopause at different ages. You may

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Speaker 2: notice signs of progression towards menopause, such as menstrual irregularity,

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Speaker 2: sometimes in your forties, but some women notice changes as

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Speaker 2: early as their mid thirties. The level of estrogen, the

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Speaker 2: main female hormone in your body, rises and falls unevenly

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Speaker 2: during perimenopause. Your minstral cycles may lengthen or shorten, and

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Speaker 2: you may begin having minstral cycles in which your ovaries

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Speaker 2: menopause like symptoms, such as hot flashes, sleep problems, and

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Speaker 2: Once you've gone through twelve consecutive months without a menstrual period,

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Speaker 2: you've officially reached menopause and the perimenopause period is over.

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Speaker 2: So that was all from Mayo Clinic. So that is

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Speaker 2: very succinct information, because when you start really digging into this,

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Speaker 2: so I'm a little confused by that since I am

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Speaker 2: at now forty three, okay. And of course, these are

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Speaker 2: the symptoms that most of us with vaginas and uteruses

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Speaker 2: have always been warned. I say, that's the one thing

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Speaker 2: And our gastrointestinal system completely changes. Our gut microbiomes become

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Speaker 2: Moving on, So testosterone works as a stand in for

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Speaker 2: for about four to five months. Again, that increase, that

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Speaker 2: It would be lovely to see. But hey, it's a

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Speaker 2: good thought. And yes, that means there's a sudden interest

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Speaker 2: It's because they're definitely finding ways to make a profit.

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Speaker 2: rife with telemedicine companies like Row thirty Medicine and Hymn's

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Speaker 2: waste five hundred million dollars out of five billion valuation.

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