Main Presentation: “Hormones and Menopause” by Claire Snowdon-Darling
September 16th, 2026 @ 8am PST
Historically, women have been under represented in all clinical research. As recently as 1992, US legislation was passed to ensure that women are represented in all clinical research. This had assumed that women respond to medications, and that there was no difference across their menstrual cycles.
The medical profession also divides treatment according to parts of the body. For example, a stomach she would be referred to a gastroenterologist, joint pain to a rheumatologists. Yet both of these symptoms might be explained by underlying inflammation. Takes 8 years to receive a diagnosis of endometriosis.
In the UK,. US and Australia, perimenopause years were listed as times for high suicide rates among women.
This is the first generation where women were told they could have it all and were encouraged to actively seek it all. Stay beautiful, stay skinny, give the perfect dinner party. With this amount of stress, are we prepared for the years of menopause? She puts it all together, the gut, the hormones, metabolic issues, immune system, and sex hormones.
• Many symptoms of menopause can be caused by blood sugar irregularities
• Stress hormones intimately affect sex hormones. Too much stress can rob our body of making sex hormones to make cortisol. (Known as the cortisol steal)
• Resulting low progesterone is associated with insulin resistance
• The immune system is intimately connected\
• testosterone ant inflammation, immune protective
• estrogen proinflammatory (immune conditions) and anti inflammatory
pregnancy
• dec progesterone slowed gut function inc but permeability results in poor estrogen detox
• chronic inflammation high LDL
• hist intolerance
• someone help us please to put this altogether
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About Claire Snowdon-Darling
Claire Snowdon-Darling is a leading women’s health pioneer with
over eighteen years clinical experience.
She is the Clinical Director of Hormone Wellness – an award-winning
online hormone and menopause clinic, and the Head of The College
of Functional Wellness – an international training college.
Her 5-star Amazon rated book “Improving the Menopause Experience Through Nutrition and Lifestyle: The Triangle of Hormonal Health” was published in 2025.
Her mission is to provide women with the knowledge and tools to end their hormone chaos.
