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What really happens to your body during menopause | Body Stuff with Dr. Jen Gunter

It’s time to erase the shame and fear swirling around menopause and understand exactly what’s going on inside your body. Dr. Jen Gunter walks through the biology of this perfectly normal transition and shares some of the best things you can do — and not do — to reduce the varied and irksome symptoms of…

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It’s time to erase the shame and fear swirling around menopause and understand exactly what’s going on inside your body. Dr. Jen Gunter walks through the biology of this perfectly normal transition and shares some of the best things you can do — and not do — to reduce the varied and irksome symptoms of menopause.

Think you know how your body works? Think again! Dr. Jen Gunter is here to shake up everything you thought you knew — from how much water you need to drink to how often you need to poop and everything in between. This TED original series will tell you the truth about what’s *really* going on inside you. (Made possible with the support of Oura)

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64 Comments

  1. zays Playz

    June 10, 2021 at 12:09 pm

    First

  2. Nguyễn Thị Ngọc Huyền

    June 10, 2021 at 12:10 pm

    Second 🤣

  3. Hà Việt

    June 10, 2021 at 12:10 pm

    Second

  4. Duha abuserhan

    June 10, 2021 at 12:11 pm

    Third

  5. ASyMR Squeezes

    June 10, 2021 at 12:15 pm

    Being a woman: 2/5 stars

    • SpaztasticSheep

      June 10, 2021 at 12:27 pm

      Men are so freakin lucky

    • Melanie Rochette

      June 10, 2021 at 12:35 pm

      There just spoiled, because they couldn’t make it without “Woman”, So God created them one. Yes they are lucky.

    • Seditine

      June 10, 2021 at 1:00 pm

      @SpaztasticSheep sometimes, i also wonder what it would feel like to be a female but i just can use my brain and imagination and stuff. The thing becomes bad when u are born into the wrong family or to some real idiot parents who can’t understand u and take care of u, etc. If u r in a good family and with supportive parents then u should be privileged and be thankful for that. I would consider/like to be a female only if that parents would be supportive and smart enough !!

    • Ansuman samal

      June 10, 2021 at 2:06 pm

      The anthropocene reviewed

    • Mr Rod

      June 10, 2021 at 5:24 pm

      @SpaztasticSheep Men experience menopause too you know.

  6. Citizen Naught

    June 10, 2021 at 12:16 pm

    I knew that Doctor was a dipspit! He kept saying I was post menopause… I argued a bit, but he barked at me…. I know hot flashes n sweaty wet sleeping haven’t stopped… I’m so tired of the medical community not knowing their asp from a hole in the ground…. Just because I didn’t go to school as long as someone, doesn’t mean I’m dumb or that I don’t know what I’m talking about. Thanks Dr. LadyDoctor. ✌🏻

    • melanie

      June 10, 2021 at 1:51 pm

      I’m 64 still get hot flushes, night sweats, moods etc. I started menopause about 48 and still going 😎🤭

    • Persephone

      June 10, 2021 at 11:27 pm

      This is actually very common throughout the medical community.
      Its like how most doctors never get chemo and always recommend it.
      Overweight/obese people’s problems are always blamed on their weight. (Same with smokers)
      Doctors are the most suicidal professional group in the world, and they are afraid to tell anyone because they will lose their license.
      Education does not equal intelligence. In fact, 90% of a doctors education is which med to prescribe.

    • Citizen Naught

      June 11, 2021 at 12:05 am

      @melanie thank you for sharing.😁💜✌🏻

    • Citizen Naught

      June 11, 2021 at 12:10 am

      @Persephone yep. I haven’t been to any doctor in over a year. I’m off my BP and Antidepressant… I’ve tried so many clinics n hospital systems around here… I truly think that the world sends it’s dumbest worst docs here, to Arkansas. What a bunch of incompetent snobs… Thanks Lady😉😎🐣

  7. Telur Tenga

    June 10, 2021 at 12:20 pm

    Already menopause? Invest in GMR crypto before late

    • Melanie Rochette

      June 10, 2021 at 3:02 pm

      What’s him crypto?

    • Nigiri Maki

      June 10, 2021 at 4:53 pm

      Hahahaha

  8. Annie Jayy

    June 10, 2021 at 12:26 pm

    I wonder if your experiences going thru puberty can indicate how hard menopause will hit…

    • Rocio Dos Santos

      June 10, 2021 at 5:38 pm

      Omg… I hope the experiences from my disastrous puberty mean I’ve paid all my sins and get a super smooth menopause like my mom had 😭

    • Pasqua Larenza

      June 10, 2021 at 7:53 pm

      My OBGYN told me that it’s more like post partum when your period stops…I was a total mess after my first born

  9. Mc Sus

    June 10, 2021 at 12:32 pm

    Ahhhhhh!!!!! This was awesome BUT I need more and consistent please. We transition folks don’t have a good guide to help us through all this. Any ideas of resources that can help like a conversation. Read the books but it was sooooo much more helpful to hear it and see a woman explain!!

  10. celestialcircledance

    June 10, 2021 at 12:35 pm

    I would counter that there is a lot to fear about ” reverse puberty ,” one symptom being Menopause in woman . Its just that some people prefer there aging process to be sugar coated and who can blame them ..

    • melanie

      June 10, 2021 at 1:51 pm

      Time to be adult.

  11. Sirax123

    June 10, 2021 at 12:43 pm

    Glad to learn what happens when I transition to female.

    • Brittany

      June 10, 2021 at 12:53 pm

      Huh? 😅

    • Sirax123

      June 10, 2021 at 1:03 pm

      Trans females are females

    • Pierfrancesco iobbi

      June 10, 2021 at 1:07 pm

      It… It doesn’t… Ok, nevermind

    • A C

      June 10, 2021 at 1:24 pm

      This will not happen as you aren’t a real female. I am sorry to say the truth.

    • ExiledEve

      June 10, 2021 at 1:29 pm

      It’s all fun and trolling the TED comment section until you realise there are actually many deranged trans identified males who think they experience actual menstruation, so why not menopause too? What a time to be alive.

  12. paperchaserbanks

    June 10, 2021 at 12:48 pm

    “A man that makes sperm” 🤦

  13. Miriam Asofsky

    June 10, 2021 at 1:11 pm

    I’m really liking these videos from Dr. Jen Gunter. Keep ’em coming!

  14. Patty 1951

    June 10, 2021 at 1:14 pm

    This is a bit sugar coated. Hot flashes and not being able to sleep is horrid, especially when I had to still go to work in the morning. It included a mental decline. Weight issues started. It charges your physical appearance with graying hair (which I don’t mind)..Changes relationships at work & home. Changes sleep patterns. Chocolate, wine & coffee made symptoms FAR worse. Had to research to find that info. The process Lasted 10 years which isn’t talked about.. And after this is when breast cancer occurred, for me which I’m pretty sure was hormone related. So personally I’d rather have kept having periods. Menopause is NOT a piece of cake.

    • Rocio Dos Santos

      June 10, 2021 at 5:35 pm

      Every person has a unique experience during this process. I wish there was more information available, these are things we should be taught early in life to prepare for it, at least mentally, and understand what our bodies are going through 🙏🏾

  15. Vu Fromthefishbowl

    June 10, 2021 at 1:33 pm

    😂😂😂👌🏻
    I like the boat analogy. Lol!!!
    I only have the hot flashes no other symptoms but I can’t take estrogen anyways. Even when I took birth control pills she (my doctor) couldn’t prescribe the ones with estrogen it makes me feel really sick. Estrogen has never been my friend so I won’t miss it at all. I handled all of my 3 pregnancies very well too, no mood swings, no morning sickness (just puffy feet 😀). Hopefully as these periods end, the lack of estrogen will not be a problem.

  16. Xavier Zara

    June 10, 2021 at 1:34 pm

    What led to this video being taken down and re-uploaded?

  17. Gaasuba Meskhenet

    June 10, 2021 at 2:03 pm

    We really should start disambiguating between male/female and man/woman

  18. Splooshy

    June 10, 2021 at 2:04 pm

    It’s just as traumatic for men too! My friend went from a loving person to hating everyone around her 🙁

    • manfred schmalbach

      June 10, 2021 at 7:50 pm

      Did You know: You can get rid of this kinda people around You. It is absolutely OK to divorce, to end friendships and leave relationships when one partner is entering her toxic phase of life ….

    • Amanda Lierly

      June 14, 2021 at 7:58 pm

      To be right here, to took the time to watch the video to try and understand what she’s going through. Is a brilliant move. Devoted love. Forget what the person says about divorce. To the woman that’s going through menopause they’re trying to understand it too, your not alone

    • manfred schmalbach

      June 14, 2021 at 9:18 pm

      ​@Amanda Lierly It is OK to menopause, I didn’t deny that.
      Though, it is absolutely OK to end relationships/marriages turned toxic by her sudden changes.
      It ain’t mandatory, of course: Neither to become a toxic, asexual manhater, nor to leave a woman going through menopause. It is, though, nothing only one goes through and the other had to endure all of that crap no matter what: relationships consist of TWO people. One turning into a toxic hater does affect the other, who is free to leave the recently turned toxic, manhating one without regrets or even feeling bad.

    • Amanda Lierly

      June 14, 2021 at 10:23 pm

      @manfred schmalbach that’s why we have our own opinion.

  19. Dimaz Bayu R

    June 10, 2021 at 2:16 pm

    please add indonesian subtitle, thank you❤️👍

  20. lmriana

    June 10, 2021 at 2:26 pm

    Sorry Jen but you’re not my favorite obgyn.

  21. Brayan Guzman

    June 10, 2021 at 2:31 pm

    Please make a video about how to get a big PP.

  22. Mr Rod

    June 10, 2021 at 5:23 pm

    Oh no, Dr Jen mentioned the “W” word. Cancel culture coming for the Doc who will be packing shelves at Walmart soon.

  23. Rocio Dos Santos

    June 10, 2021 at 5:33 pm

    Since I was a student in university I dreamed of having a clinic focused exclusively on menopause and educating people about it. It’s such a taboo in many countries and societies. Like this woman says, life doesn’t end when we get into menopause, it’s another stage of life. I’m 35 now, and I promise one day I’ll have my clinic with specialist to educate and give the right therapy and help to actually learn to accept and make the best of this part of our lives as women when we get to it.

  24. Freedom Malik

    June 10, 2021 at 10:23 pm

    This lady is awesome.

  25. Read my ABOUT section PLEASE

    June 11, 2021 at 2:13 am

    Not yet but my mom is. Now I understand

  26. Jay_Gutta_Music

    June 11, 2021 at 4:45 am

    With men who make sperm…. men

  27. Daniele K.

    June 11, 2021 at 12:11 pm

    As a man, thank you!
    Usually women don’t like to share these details with men… hence we get accused of not understanding them.

  28. me man

    June 11, 2021 at 2:01 pm

    How does she get listed as TED? This isn’t like any other TED I’ve seen

  29. F S

    June 11, 2021 at 2:32 pm

    While many symptoms of menopause go away after the transition it is important to know, that with increased age and ongoing estrogen loss 70 % of women will develope vaginal atrophy, the thinning and basically falling apart of the skin in the vagina and vulva. Local estrogens are harmless for most of the female population. When you go through menopause and develope reacuring utis, pain with urination, burning and itching of vulva and vagina and painfull intercourse, dont hesitate and get the treatment you deserve. Speak with your gynocologist about vaginal atrophy.

  30. The Enchanter

    June 11, 2021 at 3:04 pm

    me who isn’t even a girl and has a homework deadline due next next day: wow cool vid

  31. Sonicflower Girl

    June 11, 2021 at 9:28 pm

    I am 41 and have been on the pill since I was 23. About 3 years ago I have stopped taking a break after each pack and take it continuously. I’ve never felt more hormonally normal. I will do anything to continue this for as long as possible or switch to another hormonal therapy when I get older. I think what they tell you about being ‘all natural’ is a lie.

    • frack john

      June 14, 2021 at 8:44 pm

      Contra ceptiv pills?

  32. Sara Jane Haven

    June 13, 2021 at 3:35 pm

    I was surprised there was no mention of leg cramps. There is no pain like being awoken from a sound sleep in the wee hours by both calves severely spasming at the same time. Fortunately, this was eliminated by taking a good multivitamin daily.

  33. speicaldark

    June 13, 2021 at 8:03 pm

    I’m so looking forward to menopause. I cannot wait for my periods to completely stop

    • frack john

      June 14, 2021 at 8:42 pm

      Dosen’t that dry up your va. gina?

    • speicaldark

      June 14, 2021 at 10:50 pm

      @frack john So, men are dry?

  34. hemant ashoka

    June 14, 2021 at 1:40 am

    Gan you need your own channel. And you need it right now. 🙌🏽❤️

  35. frack john

    June 14, 2021 at 5:55 pm

    I swear half of the viewers are men

    • Amanda Lierly

      June 14, 2021 at 7:54 pm

      I think it’s very kind that men are trying to understand the woman’s body are simple. Glad to see all the men’s opinion

    • frack john

      June 14, 2021 at 7:59 pm

      @Amanda Lierly it’s part of having passion for women’s bodies

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