[00:00:00] I really love menopause. I do want to talk about this. ’cause I think some women have a trepidation. Then Oprah get on the thing and they all talking about it. Yeah. I didn’t have any of those experiences with menopause. Yeah. I did not have this problem with it. It was such a beautiful, graceful, becoming good and then, but I was having lots of sex.
Yeah. And I do not use utilize barriers because all of my partners are, um. Fluid bonded. Yep. And so to me, the male fluids were my hormonal replacement therapy. Yeah, there you go. Right. Yeah. I really utilized that and I felt it like I would need to have a sexual experience and then it felt the testosterone level out and all of the hormones level out.
Yeah. And so I never once went to a doctor during menopause. That’s great. I didn’t need to. Yeah, but you know, I would feel the heat or I would feel myself not being able to sleep, and I asked my ancestor one day, why am I not able to sleep? She said, because you’re an elder now. You go out and meet with the women and smoke tobacco under the moon.
I [00:01:00] said, there’s no women. There’s no women smoking tobacco under the moon. I smoke tobacco under
the moon with you.
Oh, please. Because at that time it wasn’t, but that’s why you cannot sleep. Yeah, that’s what I was told. Interesting. I like that. Just lots of lure came to me. She told me about the hot flashes.
She said, oh, well you didn’t take your waist beads off and give them to the next generation of menstruates. Oh. I said, nobody’s doing that here. Yeah. Can we, can we end all of this? We don’t have the tradition here. Yeah. Yeah. So these are the things I learned during menopause. Yeah. And I love not being fertile, of course, but I want to hear your story because you are not even there yet.
And you got 10 years on me. No,
almost 15. I know. I, um, yeah, I haven’t. Officially gone through menopause and that I still menstruate. That’s beautiful. But I’ve been doing bioidentical hormone replacement since my forties. Okay. I started out with a little progesterone, then I added in a little estrogen, and I’ve upped them over the years as I’ve felt that I needed more as my body produced less.
Sure. And I also use testosterone. Okay. So I do vaginal [00:02:00] estrogen. Mm-hmm. I do, uh. I do a topical on my vulva mm-hmm. Of testosterone on my clitoris to keep it nice and meaty. Nice. And I love testosterone because it gives me confidence. Yes. It gives you mos. Yes. And the nice thing is that if we’re with a male bodied partner and they’re our lover, they give us testosterone through kissing Yes.
And through their semen. Yes. And so I do love that as well. But IUI, I use a fair amount to keep myself feeling really strong and I like. Having a lot of muscle. Yes. ’cause I work out all the time as well. Sure. And I take, still take progesterone. I take, I take it in the mor, I split my dose between the morning and the evening.
Okay. But the thing, the reason that I like menstruating and a lot of women don’t, and it triggers them when I talk about it, oh, I
loved it too.
I like menstruating, but really what I’m trying to do is I’m trying to keep my entire uterine, uh, structure. In really good health because what I’ve been learning from Dr.
Jennifer Garrison of the Buck Institute is that our ovaries [00:03:00] are a, a signaling and a hormonal communication system. Yes. That goes far beyond reproduction. Mm-hmm. And into longevity. And she’s trying to get the funding mm-hmm. To do more information, uh, get more clinical data mm-hmm. About OV ovarian signaling.
Benefits. Yes. But you know,
science, science hasn’t done US justice. They haven’t done us. They have not studied any of this. But you’re saying that you want to continue keeping your ovarian qi and vitality, but you are not thinking of conceiving? No. Okay. I don’t think that, I don’t think that I
could conceive.
Okay. I don’t. At pushing 60. Four. Okay. Right. But, um, but I love menstruation. Good. So it makes me feel vital. So I’m doing it. I don’t recommend it for other people. Mm-hmm. I don’t know what I’m doing. I’m in uncharted territory. Well, we have to be. So I’m not sitting here saying, you should do what I do. I’m just sharing what I do.
Right. That’s how I think about everything in my life. It’s like, take what [00:04:00] you can. Leave the rest. There’s 10% in there for everybody. I just dunno what 10% is for
you. Well, we’re in such a discovery mode. We are, we are the ones on the new frontier of women to know what to do. Definitely. ’cause it’s definitely, it’s been centuries Yeah.
Since they’ve known anything about how we work. Yeah. So that’s where we are. Yeah. I’m proud of you. Oh, well, gee, thank you. I have, I’m so good at having my period.
