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Meet Deanna Latson

MEET THE GUEST

Deanna Latson is a professional speaker who has spoken at over 800 universities, appeared on live TV, and worked with countless corporate audiences. She built her career making complicated topics simple, engaging, and unforgettable from health and leadership to business and personal growth. She later brought that same skill into the corporate world, becoming a global product and marketing executive and helping scale companies in health, wellness, skincare, supplements, and direct selling.

What We Talk About

• Most women get “the talk” about periods at 12, but no one explains perimenopause or menopause.
• About 6,000 women enter menopause every day, and many go through it in silence.
• Only five other species go through menopause, all of them whales, including killer whales, belugas and narwhals.
• Symptoms go far beyond hot flashes: brain fog, poor sleep, bloating, thinning hair and skin, joint pain and irritability.
• Falling estrogen also affects the heart and raises the risk of bladder infections that can spread to the kidneys.
• The “3 a.m. club”: hormone-driven sleep disruption that worsens mood, digestion and weight gain.
• Perimenopause can start in your 30s, and doctors often miss early changes in digestion, sleep, skin and energy.
• Get your hormones tested, then retest a few months later, since levels fluctuate.
• This year’s World Menopause Day theme is midlife pain, because lower estrogen changes how we feel pain in our joints and bones.
• Deanna works in the field and still didn’t connect her sudden finger pain to her hormones.
• Anxiety and loss of confidence are common, fueled by a culture that equates menopause with getting old.
• Her advice to her 35-year-old self: learn the symptoms early and be proactive, not reactive.
• Beyond Team HRT and Team Natural, she champions “Team Informed Choice.”
• Interview your OB-GYN. Many aren’t trained in menopause, and it’s okay to switch doctors.
• Black cohosh and red clover started as folk remedies and now have clinical research behind them.
• She+ is a vegan jelly stick designed to be a treat, so it gets taken instead of joining the “supplement morgue.”
• In Immunotec’s consumer trial, over 90% were satisfied and about 78% reported better sleep and mood.
• Standardized herbal extracts cost more but deliver the same level of active compounds every time, and so more consistent results.
• In killer whale pods, females past menopause become the leaders, a reminder that this stage brings wisdom and power.

Episode Resources

Immunotec
The makers of She+, a plant-based jelly stick that supports women through perimenopause and menopause.
https://www.immunotec.com/

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Keywords

menopause, perimenopause, menopause symptoms, World Menopause Day, hot flashes, brain fog, menopause sleep, hormone health, estrogen, HRT, black cohosh, red clover, natural menopause relief, She+, Immunotec, women’s health, midlife, joint pain, supplements