Menopausal hormone therapy was once the most commonly prescribed treatment in the United States. In the late 1990s, some 15 million women a year were receiving a prescription for it. But in 2002, a single study, its design imperfect, found links between hormone therapy and elevated health risks for women of all ages. Panic set in; in one year, the number of ... Show More
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TMHS 769 - The Surprising Truth About Menopause & Lifestyle Changes for Menopause Symptoms - with Dr. Lisa Mosconi
Menopause is widely believed to be a hormonal and reproductive shift, but new science is affirming that the process of menopause also has extensive effects on a woman’s brain. As a women’s brain health expert and neuroscientist, Dr. Lisa Mosconi is on a mission to help women bett ... Show More
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Treatment of Menopausal Symptoms
<p>During the transition to menopause, approximately 50%-75% of individuals experience vasomotor or genitourinary symptoms. JAMA Senior Editor Linda Brubaker, MD, and Carolyn Crandall MD, MS, of the University of California, Los Angeles, discuss hormonal and nonhormonal therapy f ... Show More
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Menopause: What to Know, What to Ask & What to Do – Mary Claire Haver, M.D. : 1015
<p><strong>IN THIS EPISODE OF THE HUMAN UPGRADE™… </strong>board-certified OB/GYN and “menopause warrior” <a href="https://galvestondiet.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Mary Claire Haver, M.D.</a>, joins the show to give women a toolkit to manage wha ... Show More
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Cardiovascular Disease & Brain Aging During Menopause with Rebecca Thurston, PhD (Episode 166)
<p>For years, hot flashes and night sweats (aka vasomotor symptoms) were considered just a “bothersome” part of being a menopausal woman: we were to wear layers, buy a fan, and soldier on. Then researchers started making some troubling connections between vasomotor symptoms and c ... Show More
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S1 Ep1: Is it Menopause? Or Some Other Pause?
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 explaine ... Show More
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S3 Ep121: Dr. Streicher and Dr. Mary Claire Haver Respond to a “New” Model to Manage Menopause
Don't Mess with These Menopause Experts!
When The Lancet, one of the oldest, most respected medical journals, published a series of articles saying that “menopause had been over-medicalized”, that many symptoms were “just in her head” and that over ... Show More
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