Researchers

Perimenopause Research Lecture: Fraser Health

Dr. Prior presenting at the Fraser Health Wellbeing Guest Speaker Series where she discussed Perimenopause – women’s misunderstood, confusing, and long midlife transition. This presentation was recorded at the Surrey Memorial Hospital, BC in December 2023.
Strong is the New Sexy: Bone Formation & Women’s Lifelong Bone Health

On May 21st 2015, Dr. Jerilynn Prior gave this public presentation about new research evidence and its implications for women’s bone health.
The Endocrine News Podcast: Ovulatory Disturbances and SARS-COV2

In July 2022, while in Atlanta at the Endocrine Society Conference, Dr. Jerilynn Prior talked to host Aaron Lohr of The Endocrine News Podcast about Ovulatory Disturbances during the SARS-COV2 pandemic. Click the button below to learn more and listen to this episode. You can also find this episode wherever you listen to podcasts (search for…
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…
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…
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…
How Can I Tell I Am in Perimenopause?

What’s going on? Why can’t I sleep normally, why am I so grumpy or suddenly anxious, why am I abruptly hot and sweaty? Could I be in perimenopause? CeMCOR believes that if: —our experiences have changed (see the Table of characteristic changes) —our hormone levels have changed (scientific evidence says that perimenopausal estrogen levels are…
Documenting Ovulation with Quantitative Basal Temperature (QBT)

If our cycles are regular – about a month apart we assume we are ovulatory – meaning releasing an egg and making normal amounts of progesterone. However, ovulation is highly variable for all women. Progesterone raises our first morning (or basal) temperature a little bit. But so do many other things. Thus “basal body temperature”…
Perimenopause is a time of “Endogenous Ovarian Hyperstimulation”

“Perimenopausal endogenous ovarian hyper-stimulation” is the exact opposite of “The Myth of the Shriveling Ovary”: High estrogen levels during perimenopause, coupled with characteristically intermittent ovulation, can explain much of the misery of perimenopause. My hypothesis is based on the assumption that inhibin production decreases while there are still viable follicles (capable of producing both estrogen…