Ever find yourself lying awake at night, heart racing for no reason? Or maybe you’ve noticed your heart skipping beats out of the blue? If you’re in midlife or menopause, this episode is for you. 💗

Join Dr. Kyrin as she tackles Trina’s important question about irregular heartbeats during menopause. Could these unsettling symptoms be connected to low hormone levels? And more importantly, are they warning signs of something bigger?

Here’s What You’ll Learn in Today’s Episode:

1. Why irregular heartbeats during menopause deserve your full attention—not just your worry.

2. The role estrogen and other key hormones play in protecting your heart (and how hormonal imbalances could be contributing to your symptoms).

3. Why mainstream medicine might dismiss your symptoms and how to advocate for yourself.

4. The “hidden” dangers of hormonal poverty and the steps you can take to shift into hormonal prosperity.

Dr. Kyrin shares her own story of struggling with irregular heartbeats, how mainstream medicine failed to provide answers, and the holistic steps she took to restore her vibrant health. Spoiler alert—it’s not about masking symptoms; it’s about addressing the root cause. 💡

Key Takeaways:

• Hormones matter: Did you know low estrogen during menopause can alter how your heart functions?

• Mainstream medicine isn’t enough: Traditional tests may miss functional issues that could jeopardize your heart health.

• Empower your health: Make proactive choices to move out of hormonal poverty and unlock hormonal prosperity.

This episode is packed with actionable advice to help you tune into your body, identify red flags, and take the steps you need to thrive.

Your Call to Action

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👉 CLICK HERE to take the quiz and assess where you stand.

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No one deserves to live in hormonal poverty. 🛑 Drop the disempowering question, “What’s wrong with me?” and start asking, “What would hormonal prosperity do?” (#WWPD)

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Podcast Episode Transcript: 

Dr. Kyrin Dunston

Coming up next. Irregular heartbeat in menopause. Are they related? And could this be signs of bigger trouble to come find out Next.

Dr. Kyrin Dunston

Greetings friend. Welcome to the Hormone Prosperity Podcast with me, the hormone prosperity coach, Dr. Kyrin. Here's where intelligent women over 40 go to get credible guidance and inspiration on getting out of hormonal poverty and into hormonal prosperity and the joy and vitality that brings. Go from asking disempowering questions like, what's wrong with me? To asking empowering questions like, what would hormonal prosperity do? Hashtag ww PD. Join me as we dive into today's episode and get started on your journey off the couch, into your genes and back into life, because bliss is your birthright and a healthy body filled with hormonal prosperity is the vehicle that gets you there. Welcome. Let's get started.

Dr. Kyrin Dunston

Hey everybody, it's Dr. Kyrin. Welcome back to another episode of the Hormone Prosperity Coach. So glad that you're joining me today as we dive into a question from Trina who says another symptom post menopause. Anyone else experience irregular heartbeat with menopause? It scares me. It should scare you, Trina. This is big, huge problem. It's not uncommon though, one of those 60 plus symptoms of midlife metabolic mayhem that we women might have to contend with. So with estrogen dropping progesterone, dropping testosterone, dropping oftentimes cortisol dysfunction, insulin dysfunction, thyroid, DHEA, right? These are the seven main metabolic hormones we've got to contend with that inform hormonal poverty or hormonal prosperity and inform all our cells and all our systems to be healthy and thriving and growing and healing or deteriorating and cause getting ready to cause us problems that we may not know about it yet. So estrogen in particular, but all of these hormones have a role in every cell, in every system in your body, including your arteries that carry the blood throughout your body, from your heart to every cell in your brain, to every cell in your feet, to every cell in your precious abdominal cavity, chest cavity, everywhere, very intimately involved with artery function.

Dr. Kyrin Dunston

This is why menopause is associated. So lack of estrogen is associated with increased risk of the number one cause of death of women over 50, which is heart disease and heart attack. We're all worrying about breast cancer over here. Meanwhile, our body is like, Hey, pay attention to your heart and you're having an irregular heartbeat. So this could be a sign, Trina, that your arteries around your heart are being affected and it could be affecting the conduction system in your heart. Your heart is an electrical apparatus. Yep, it's electrical and that's why it has this internal electrical system that causes it to pump, pump, pump every day of your life. It pumps from about five weeks of birth. We can see it on an ultrasound all the way till you take your last breath, and then usually even a little bit farther if you haven't died from a heart attack, it still will pump depending on the cause of death.

Dr. Kyrin Dunston

It does its job. Sun, moon, shine. It doesn't care rainy, sunny deadlines. It doesn't. It just pumps. It does its job well, it needs to be nourished properly. And one of the things it needs is estrogen, but it also needs all the other hormones probably that your doctor isn't talking to you about that I wanna make sure you know about your insulin, thyroid, cortisol, DHEA, progesterone, testosterone. Your heart depends on all of these. So you need to go to your doctor. You need to start at least probably with an EKG. Now, I'm not your doctor. And this is just for educational purposes. So anything that you have a health concern about, please go see your doctor. What we do here is not, does not replace medical advice. So you need to talk with your doctor about what you're having. They probably will start with your evaluation with an EKG electrocardiogram to see if there are any abnormalities.

Dr. Kyrin Dunston

But if not, they'll probably put you on a Holter monitor to track your heartbeats over a 24 hour period and then have a reading to see if maybe there's something they missed on the EKG. 'cause The EKG is only for a few seconds in time. The Holter monitor is about 24 hour period, or they might do a echocardiogram to look at how your heart is functioning, how the ventricles are emptying, are they emptying properly? Is the blood flowing through your heart properly? Or they might do other imaging tests depending on what they find might send you to a cardiologist. But this is something that should scare you, Trina. Thank you for sharing it. So if you haven't already, you need to talk to your doctor about this as quickly as possible and get it evaluated. Now, let's say they evaluate you and they don't find anything and they say, we're going to check you again in six months, Trina, you're good and you're still feeling this <inaudible>.

Dr. Kyrin Dunston

I have to say that I had that too <laugh> when I was in the perimenopause and weighed 243 pounds, had chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, depression, anxiety, irritable bowel gastritis. I had so many things, my health was a mess. And I had that too. And I told my doctor and they sent me for the Holter and the cardiogram and all this, and they didn't find anything. And when I realized that I was in hormonal poverty and I had so many inputs causing my body to be in hormonal poverty that I teach you about in my hormone bliss challenge when I corrected them all, it went away. It went away naturally because nothing happens in your body without a reason. But when you don't look at your health from a functional or energetic perspective, which are higher levels, I'll say energetic is up here, then there's functional anatomic is down here, and mainstream medicine is really looking for have you had a heart attack that we missed and did, did part of your ventricle wall die?

Dr. Kyrin Dunston

So now you're having a car anatomic cardiac problem, or maybe it's disrupted the electrical conduction system in your heart. So they're looking for anatomic problems or they're looking for, do you have a partial occlusion of one of the arteries feeding blood to your heart, another anatomic problem? And pretty much if it's not an anatomic problem or a conduction problem in that electrical system, which is usually due to an anatomic problem, then they're gonna say, we don't know. We don't know why you have it. And that was the case for me. And when I fixed my hormonal poverty, I stopped having that. Now, I'm not gonna say that that's gonna happen for you. I'm not your doctor. You need to go to your doctor and talk about that. But yes, Trina, thanks for the question. Anybody else? Irregular heartbeat, talk to your doctor about it, get it checked out.

Dr. Kyrin Dunston

But if they tell you it's nothing what they're really saying, you need to understand what mainstream doctors are saying to you. It's nothing that we can find with the tests that we have to look for anatomic problems. We don't look for a lot of the functional problems that could be contributing to this bi hormonal poverty. So you might have a problem there. Go find a doctor who can help you with that, like me and my colleagues who have done training in anti-aging, metabolic and functional medicine and energy medicine also. So start to listen, really listen to what your $30 H-M-O-P-P-O copay doctors are telling you, because if you take what they're telling you as the gospel and meaning that we don't find anything wrong, and you take that to mean that I'm in perfect health, you are going to be very misguided and confused when the boulder drops into your life.

Dr. Kyrin Dunston

The big fat boulder health problem drops into your life and you're gonna go. But my doctor said I was fine, but my doctor did blood work. But my doctor listened to my heart, but my doctor did an EKG, but my doctor said I was fine. So I like to say that health problems don't come out of the blue. She didn't get ca breast cancer out of the blue. She didn't get a heart attack and die out of the blue. She didn't get a stroke out of the blue. She didn't get multiple sclerosis. You think of the disease, she didn't get it out of the blue. She got it out of the oblivious. That is where disease or dis disease comes from in the body out of the oblivious. We are not getting all the information that we need to inform us from mainstream medicine. We never will.

Dr. Kyrin Dunston

That's not what it's designed for. It is about disease management. It's going to wait till you get sick, and then they're gonna manage that disease for you. That is mainstream medicine. If you, on a higher level of healthcare, it requires you, yes, requires you to go to different type of practitioner who has functional and energetic health training, and look for the things that mainstream medicine isn't looking for, the functional problems, the energetic problems, and address those so that you are no longer oblivious. That means you've gotta get out of hormonal poverty and into hormonal prosperity. Mainstream medicine will never get you completely out of hormonal poverty and into hormonal prosperity. So you've been warned, <laugh>, discredit this advice at your own risk. I want you to have all the health and vitality that you deserve in this lifetime. You deserve to have the best vitality, health, joy, connection, self-expression in this life.

Dr. Kyrin Dunston

Thank you so much, Trina for the question. I hope you'll take this seriously and get some answers that can really take your health to the next level and get you to the hormonal prosperity that you deserve. If you're not sure if you're in hormonal poverty, look at the show notes and look for the quiz link. You can take the quiz in less than 60 seconds. It'll give you a good idea. I'll give you a free program that I have outlining the blueprint steps that I've taken thousands of women through to help them on the path, the journey from hormonal poverty to hormonal prosperity for free, and consider joining my Hormone Bliss challenge, which will be starting up right before Valentine's Day. Thanks so much for joining me. I look forward to answering more of your questions. Until next time, peace, love, and hormones. Y'all,

Dr. Kyrin Dunston

Thank you so much for joining me on your journey from hormonal poverty into the promised land of hormonal prosperity. Loved today's episode. Share it with someone you care about. Love the show. Consider writing a review and help other women find it too. Remember, we're all in this together right now. There are well over 100 million women suffering in hormonal poverty without answers. Please be of service by sharing, rating and reviewing the show. Help us reach at least 1 million of these women this coming year from one previously suffering women to another. I thank you. See you next week.