The speaker has a lifelong genetic predisposition for hormone dysfunction, experiencing a significant drop in hormones between ages 41-42 and entering perimenopause at 42.

“i've always had this predisposition for hormone dysfunction i've got genetic predisposition for it and i just think that nowadays what we're seeing both men and women but especially women we are in an epidemic of hormone dysfunction and we can talk about when we kind of start you know i want to give you the kind of a map of what starts to happen in the female body as they age but basically i had to get my hormones in check and watch that my hormones from age 41 to 42 completely dropped off and when i was going full on into menopause at 42 years old”