
Extend Podcast with Darshan Shah, MD
177. Dr. Jila Senemar: The Hormone Conversation Women Should Have Before Menopause
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A lot of women are taught to think about hormones only when something becomes impossible to ignore. Painful periods. Birth control decisions. Fertility anxiety. Postpartum changes. Perimenopause symptoms. Menopause. But what if those are not separate conversations? What if the body has been giving clues for years before the symptoms become loud enough to finally get attention? In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Jila Senemar to look at women's hormone health through a much wider lens. We talk about why the ovary should not be seen only as a reproductive organ, why the hormone conversation needs to start before menopause, and what women may be missing when birth control, AMH, perimenopause,…