Healthcare Providers

Dr. Prior’s Interviews on Fempower Health-The Podcast

In 2021 and 2022, Dr. Jerilynn Prior was featured in four insightful podcast interviews conducted by Georgie Kovacs from Fempower Health. These episodes delve into crucial topics concerning women’s health, providing valuable information and expert perspectives.
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…
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…
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…
Video: Older Women’s Fracture Prevention-The Importance of Bone Formation

Women’s bone health is closely related to the ovarian hormones, estrogen and progesterone. We have known for decades that estrogen prevents bone loss (called resorption). Our current osteoporosis medicines primarily work like estrogen and prevent bone loss—that includes all the bisphosphonates and the antibody drug called Denosumab. But bone remodeling (or renovation) involves both removing…
Does Taking Progesterone (alone or with estrogen) Increase Women’s Risk for Breast Cancer?

QUESTION “I am using Prometrium® (oral micronized progesterone) 300 mg before bed, as it is the only intervention I have tried (pharmaceutical and naturopathic) that has worked. I am in perimenopause and have skipped one period but I am very concerned about breast cancer, and can’t seem to find any reliable information about how bio-identical…
Use of “the Pill” and Bone Changes in Adolescent Women

Science today recognizes that most new knowledge is never shared. New studies are finally funded, eventually the study is complete, the research is written, reviewed by other scientists and eventually published—all after great effort. But the people who participated in that research and others world-wide for whom the data are relevant, never learn about it.…
Progesterone is NOT a Progestogen/Progestin— It’s Estrogen’s Unique Biological Partner

This article was originally published in our e-newsletter. by Dr. Jerilynn C. Prior, Scientific Director, Centre for Menstrual Cycle and Ovulation Research Current lay and medical women’s health literature considers progesterone, the human hormone made by women’s ovary in the same category as its synthetic, “knock-offs”. “Progestogens. . .include both endogenous progesterone and synthetic progestogens…
Can a Blood Test Tell Me Whether I Am in Menopause?

There are several hormone levels that physicians may suggest ordering. For health care providers (HCP) these may include estrogen (our own estradiol is what laboratories can measure), luteinizing hormone (LH) or follicle stimulating hormone (FSH). In general it is reassuring to have a test ordered because your doctor doing something and that makes us feel…
The ABCs of Osteoporosis Prevention for Men with Prostate Cancer on Testosterone-Lowering Treatment

The development of prostate cancer is sufficiently frightening without also worrying about a broken bone. Those men whose prostate tumours grow in response to male hormones (like testosterone [T]) are usually treated with “androgen depletion/ablation” meaning a medicine that lowers testosterone and/or decrease its actions. Why is this an osteoporosis risk? Because testosterone both normally…