The Truth About Menopause and What You Can Do To Prevent It

If you’re a woman juggling work deadlines, teenage drama, and the demands of marriage, you already know what it feels like to hold everything together while your own body feels like it’s falling apart. You’re not imagining it. You’re not weak. You’re not crazy. You’re experiencing the direct effects of declining hormones—and you can do something about it.

For decades, women have been told that menopause is inevitable. That it’s a natural part of aging—a biological finish line we should accept with grace and gratitude. But let’s be honest: what’s natural about brain fog, hot flashes, sleepless nights, and an unrecognizable reflection in the mirror?

As a Clinical Hormone Coach with more than two decades of experience working with thousands of women taking hormone replacement therapy (HRT), I’ve seen what happens when hormones are completely restored and when they’re deficient. I’ve watched careers, marriages, and confidence rebuilt once women learned how to take control of their hormonal health with a good HRT protocol. What I’ve come to know with absolute certainty is this: menopause isn’t inevitable—it’s preventable.

Menopause Isn’t a Mystery—It’s a Hormone Deficiency

Menopause is a predictable biological condition triggered by failing ovaries. When your ovaries stop producing adequate levels of estrogen and progesterone, your menstrual cycle ceases, and your brain and body feel it immediately. The symptoms—fatigue, weight gain, depression, anxiety, loss of libido, poor sleep, brain fog—are not caused by menopause; they are the side effects of estrogen deficiency. And the longer women remain estrogen-deficient, the worse they will feel until they completely adapt to feeling like hell or they intervene.

After coaching women through every stage of hormonal decline and back, I’ve learned that once women address estrogen deficiency head-on, everything changes for the better. Their energy returns, their minds clear, and their bodies and brains come alive again. Estrogen is not just about reproduction—it’s about regulation, order, and peace. Your brain depends on it to think, your heart depends on it to pump efficiently, your bones depend on it for density, and your skin depends on it for elasticity. Estrogen is life-support for the female system. When it drops, everything changes, for the worse.

The Menopause Myth

Somewhere along the line, the medical system decided women should be kept in a state of hormone deficiency and suffer quietly. The idea that menopause could be prevented was dismissed as fringe or dangerous. We were told that hormones cause cancer, that we should take the lowest dose for the shortest time, and that our symptoms were “normal.”

But that narrative was built on fear, flawed data, and designed to keep women starving for estrogen.

The Menopause Society claims that “menopause is not a disease” and shouldn’t be treated like one— a statement that has done immeasurable harm to women’s mental health by normalizing suffering and discouraging physicians from addressing the root cause.

If we courageously acknowledge menopause as a disease with a clear and measurable cause (estrogen deficiency), then we can do something about it—and even prevent it.

If we do not look at menopause as a disease with a cure but as an inevitable and incurable condition every woman must endure, as suggested by the Menopause Society, women are left to suffer, and will spend the rest of their lives chasing the symptoms of estrogen deficiency that otherwise would not exist had we addressed menopause as a disease.

The infamous Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) study of 2002—which scared millions of women and doctors away from hormone therapy—has since been debunked. The truth? Estrogen does not cause cancer. In fact, it protects against it. Women with optimal estrogen levels are less likely to get cancer, heart disease, Alzheimer’s, osteoporosis, depression, and mental illness. Yet, twenty years later, women are still being told to live with the symptoms of hormone deficiency rather than restore what their bodies have lost.

I’ve watched women go from hopeless to unstoppable simply by restoring their empty hormone tank to the brim. One woman came to me after years of brain fog, anxiety, and sleepless nights—she thought her career was over. Within months of restoring her estrogen and progesterone, she was back in control of her brain and body, leading her company, feeling sharp, and finally recognizing herself again. That’s not magic. That’s medicine done right.

Prevention Is the New Paradigm

Preventing menopause doesn’t mean stopping time—it means fully restoring each depleted hormone to its optimal levels so your brain and body never experience the crash that comes from hormone depletion. When hormones are replenished to mimic a woman in her reproductive prime, her brain and body strive to function as they’re supposed to: sharp mind, steady mood, stable metabolism, strong bones, and an active libido.

Advanced hormone medicine—what I call full hormone restoration—uses precise, therapeutic dosing to restore estrogen, progesterone, and other key hormones back to healthy pre-perimenopausal levels. This isn’t about low-dose symptom management. It’s about giving women the right amount of estrogen and other depleted hormones so their brains and bodies can function and thrive. When done correctly, with proper monitoring, lifestyle alignment, and clinical guidance, women can avoid or even reverse the transition into menopause altogether.

After twenty years of tracking hormone levels, clinical indicators, and thousands of outcomes, I can tell you that prevention is not theory—it’s repeatable science. When hormones are restored to the right levels and maintained consistently, women not only avoid menopause, but they also thrive far beyond what they thought possible.

What You Can Do Right Now

1. Learn all you can about estrogen. It’s supercritical to understand estrogen and how much your brain and body require to fully function and thrive.
2. Educate yourself about HRT and decide what you want your HRT to do for you. To learn more about HRT, watch or listen to episode 6 of the MeNoPause Moxie Podcast, entitled, The Four Generations of HRT and Their Clinical Track Records.
3. Once you know which HRT system may be a good fit for your hormone balancing goals, find like-minded and trained professionals to make your hormone dreams come true.

A New Era for Women’s Health

We are standing at the edge of a revolution in female hormone medicine. For too long, women have been taught to settle for less energy, less libido, less clarity, less joy, and less hormones. That ends here. Preventing menopause isn’t about vanity or denial—it’s about mental illness, biology, leadership, and self-advocacy. It’s about refusing to live in mental and physical decline when science gives us the tools to thrive.

I’ve seen what happens when women are truly hormonally balanced — it’s life-changing. They don’t just reclaim their mental and physical health—they reclaim their mind, their power, their confidence, their creativity, and their purpose. When women’s hormones are fully restored, they show up differently in the world. They lead better, love deeper, and live fully.

You deserve to feel sharp, confident, vibrant, and connected to yourself for life—not just until your hormones quit. Menopause doesn’t have to happen to you. You can prevent it. Don’t fall for the “menopause is inevitable” trap. You have more control over how you feel, behave, and think than you have been led to believe.