Basic Physiology / Hormones
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From the Archive: Dr. Jerilynn Prior on Perimenopause | The Blue Hour
Image courtesy:The Blue Hour In 2021, CeMCOR Scientific Director Dr. Jerilynn Prior joined Farha Guerrero on The Blue Hour for a wide-ranging conversation about menstrual cycles, ovulation, perimenopause, and why women’s reproductive health remains poorly understood. Farha has recently revisited the conversation and published a full transcript of the interview on The Hour is Blue.…
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Ovulation Disturbances with Dr. Jerilynn Prior: fx Medicine Podcast
Ovulatory disturbances pose significant challenges to women’s reproductive health, making it crucial that practitioners have a comprehensive understanding of this complex topic. In this episode, Professor of Endocrinology and Metabolism Dr. Jerilynn Prior and fx Medicine Ambassador Emma Sutherland provide clinicians with essential insights into the causes, diagnostic indicators, hormonal balance, and potential interventions associated…
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Video: The Perimenopausal Power of Progesterone-Interview with Eliza Riley
Think your estrogen is low in perimenopause? Think again! In this video interview with Eliza Riley, Professor of Endocrinology Dr. Jerilynn Prior, founder of the Centre for Menstrual Cycle and Ovulation Research (CeMCOR), reveals the surprising truth about your hormones –and why your sleep and mood are all over the place! Discover why progesterone might…
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Dr. Prior’s Interviews: Growing Older Living Younger Podcast
In 2023, Dr. Prior was interviewed twice by Dr. Gillian Lockitch, host of the Growing Older Living Younger podcast.
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Video: Dr. Jerilynn Prior’s Personal and Scientific Reflections for Women’s Health Trainees on a Difficult Perimenopause
At the 9th Annual Women’s Health Research Symposium on March 8, 2024, Dr. Jerilynn Prior delivered a trainee-focused presentation titled, Perseverance in the Pursuit of Truth in the Field of Women’s Health Research. Dr. Prior shared her personal and scientific reflections on the challenging phase of perimenopause, emphasizing the importance in research for being puzzled, doing prospective studies…
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Video: Navigating Perimenopause and Menopause through Established Facts and Emerging Discoveries
Although we cannot change the transitional perimenopausal processes, understanding of them helps, as does social/occupation/emotional support. Controlled trial evidence showed that daily progesterone significantly improved night sweats, sleep problems and the “interference of perimenopause with daily activities”. In this video presentation, we explore the established scientific understanding of perimenopause and menopause, along with emerging research…
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Conscious Fertility Podcast Ep. 89 – Decoding Hormonal Balance: The Power of Progesterone with Dr. Jerilynn Prior
In this episode of Conscious Fertility, host Dr. Lorne Brown engages in an enlightening conversation with Dr. Jerilynn Prior, a trailblazing endocrinologist and professor at the University of British Columbia. Dr. Prior shares her 40+ years of research on the importance of progesterone in women’s reproductive health, the reality of hormonal fluctuations during perimenopause, and how…
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Ovulatory Disturbances: They Do Matter
For the woman who isn’t trying to get pregnant, does it matter if an ovulatory pattern is normal? Recent studies indicate that it does. One study showed that women with only one nonovulatory cycle a year lost an average of 4% of their spinal bone. Strong evidence suggests that lack of cyclic normal progesterone is…
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Very Heavy Menstrual Flow
When a period (meaning menstrual bleeding) is very heavy, or you are experiencing “flooding” or passing big clots you have what doctors call menorrhagia. We’ll skip the fancy term and just call it heavy flow. The purposes of this article are to define what is expected or “normal”, what we mean by very heavy menstrual flow,…
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Estrogen’s Storm Season Book
**UPDATE** The 2017 Edition of Estrogen’s Storm Season is now available as an eBook (in both Amazon Kindle and ePUB formats)! Please see below for purchase details. For those who have purchased or received earlier paperback editions, we have created an insert with updates that relates to CeMCOR’s unique but evidence-based view of the phases…