Unlike puberty, when your mother sat you down and explained what to expect with your first period, it is the rare mother who tells her daughter what to expect from her first hot flash, what to do about it, or even what menopause is. In fairness to moms everywhere, no one explained it to them.
In this first episode, Dr. Streicher covers:
The frustrating disparity between help for mid-life men versus mid-life women
WHAT menopause is
WHEN it typically happens
WHY women enter menopause at different times
HOW long menopause lasts
Other Pauses such as Perimenopause, EARLY menopause, Premature menopause, Primary Ovarian Insufficiency
How to Know if you are Officially in menopause
IF you should get a hormone test
Lauren Streicher, MD is a clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, and the medical director of the Northwestern Medicine Center for Sexual Medicine and Menopause. She is a certified menopause practitioner of the North American Menopause Society.
Dr. Streicher is the medical correspondent for Chicago’s top-rated news program, the
WGNMorningNews, and has been seen on
The Today Show,
Good Morning America,
The Oprah Winfrey Show, CNN, NPR,
Dr.Radio,Nightline,Fox and Friends, The Steve Harvey Show, CBS ThisMorning,ABCNewsNow,NBCNightlyNews,20/20, and
WorldNewsTonight. She is an expert source for many magazines and serves on the medical advisory board of The Kinsey Institute, Self Magazine and Prevention Magazine. She writes a regular column for The Ethel by AARP and Prevention Magazine.
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