Hi there,

Most of us got half the memo on perimenopause.

The half we got is the hormone half. The one about hot flashes, sleep, mood, metabolism, cycles, and estrogen and progesterone swinging around before they finally trend down. That part is real. That part gets written about.

The half nobody handed us is the one about how your hormones, your stress response, and your immune system have been talking to each other your entire life.

They do not stop talking in your forties. They start talking louder.

Dr. Pina LoGiudice and Dr. Jocelyn Strand are going live together on Thursday, October 29 at 7:00 PM ET to walk through the full picture. They are going to show you how fluctuating and declining sex hormones can influence immune regulation and inflammatory signaling, and why resilience through this transition really does mean looking at these three systems together instead of one at a time.

They are also going to walk through some of the most interesting emerging science in women's health. What actually happens to the immune system during pregnancy, and which of those adaptations researchers think may persist afterward. The newer work asking whether the ovary takes on a different, more immune-focused role after your reproductive years. The questions that are quietly changing how researchers talk about women's bodies in the second half of life.

They will also be clear about what is settled and what is still an open question. That honesty is a big part of why we wanted these two on the same call.

And most importantly, they are going to bring the science back to real life. What you can actually do to help your body adapt well through perimenopause, menopause, and the decades after.

Here is who you will be spending the hour with.

Dr. Pina LoGiudice, ND, LAc. Naturopathic doctor and licensed acupuncturist with more than 25 years of clinical experience, focused on women's health across every hormonal life stage. Pre-medical studies at the University of Rochester. Pre-doctoral fellow in neuroendocrinology at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. Doctorate in Naturopathic Medicine from Bastyr University. Co-author in the third edition of the Textbook of Natural Medicine, and author of an original chapter on pregnancy and primary prevention in the upcoming fourth edition. Author of The Little Book of Healthy Beauty (Penguin). Called a world expert in natural medicine by Dr. Oz after more than 25 appearances on his show. Past board member of the New York Association of Naturopathic Physicians. Co-founder of Inner Source Wellness in Huntington, New York.

Dr. Jocelyn Strand, ND. Bastyr-trained naturopathic doctor and the Vice President of Education at BWH Labs. Over a decade of prior private clinical practice specializing in GI, Lyme, and autoimmune conditions. Published in Integrative Medicine: A Clinician's Journal and co-author of biofilm research in Frontiers in Antibiotics. Former research collaboration with Johns Hopkins University. Her published work focuses on the gut-immune axis, microbiome contributions to detoxification and immune integrity, and botanical mechanisms in clinical application.

If you have been quietly wondering what is actually going on with your body in these years, this is the conversation.

See you Thursday night.

Better Way Health