Women in perimenopause and menopause who have been told to ‘just do Kegels’ or ‘just accept it, it’s aging’ — this episode is the honest, whole-body answer you deserved to hear the first time you asked.
Estrogen binds to receptors throughout the pelvic floor, driving collagen production that keeps connective tissue strong and resilient. When estrogen declines in perimenopause, that structural support weakens — showing up as pressure, urgency, heaviness at the end of the day, pain with intimacy, and incontinence. None of it is random. None of it is simply aging. And almost none of it requires Kegels as the first line of defense.
Dr. Michelle Weeks is the founder of Weeks Wellness, a pelvic floor therapy practice with 10 locations across Massachusetts, Florida, North Carolina, Colorado, California, and soon Tennessee. She brings a systems-based, whole-body perspective that begins with estrogen and extends to visceral manipulation, functional strength training, fasting lab work, and the kind of root-cause investigation that most clinical encounters never reach.
She explains the difference between a weak pelvic floor and a restricted one — and why that distinction is everything. She walks through how vaginal estrogen must be rubbed into the tissue to absorb correctly, what hyaluronic acid does and when it is the right non-hormonal choice, which fasting lab markers to request, why strength training with progressive overload protects the pelvic floor better than isolated Kegels, and what systemic inflammation looks like when it is preventing recovery.
What You Will Learn
- What estrogen is actually doing in the pelvic floor — how it builds collagen-rich connective tissue, why its decline directly causes pressure, urgency, heaviness, and pain with intimacy, and why vaginal estrogen must be rubbed into the tissue to absorb correctly
- The critical difference between a weak pelvic floor and a restricted one — and why Kegels can worsen a tight floor.
- Which fasting lab markers to request beyond CBC and CMP.
About Our Guest
Dr. Michelle Weeks is the founder of Weeks Wellness, a pelvic floor physical therapy practice with 10 locations across the United States. She takes a holistic, systems-based approach combining hands-on manual therapy, visceral and neural manipulation, progressive strength training, and comprehensive lab review. She also holds a functional fertility certification.
weekswellness.com | @WeeksWellness |
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