Your skin barrier is mortar, not bricks, and the mortar runs on estradiol.
And the pill you take to sleep through it is very likely making it worse.
Estrogen was managing your liver. Ask for the two tests nobody offers you.
Half of midlife women get this. Almost none of them get the thud explained.
The jaw registers bone loss years before a hip scan would. Yours has been talking.
A randomized trial answered this in 1993. You have had five antibiotic courses since.
The oil layer of your tears runs on a hormone nobody mentions in midlife.
It is not the estrogen level. It is how many times a month it falls off a cliff.
Progesterone held your throat open for thirty years. It stopped, and you got handed a sedative.
Your thermostat and your alarm system run on the same wire. Nobody told you.
Nobody handed you the 2024 paper that names it.
The test that would have caught this is not on the standard panel.
