Hi friends. Thanks for joining me. This podcast is called abnormal bleeding throughout the ages,

and I am talking with Dr. Prabhakar, who is an Obi-Gyne based in California, and we talk about all the

things from perimenopause to menopause and options for bleeding and what the diagnosis mean

and what treatment options are. So this is super high yield. I hope you enjoy her. She's lovely.

This is an Instagram live. We did a while back. So you can super high yield. I hope you enjoy her. She's lovely. This is an Instagram

live. We did a while back. So you can find her on her Instagram at the fibroid doc. And also she has a

YouTube channel, the fibroid doc. And those links are in the show notes. In addition, get your

CME. The link is in the show note. So I hope you guys enjoy. Take care. Welcome to You

Are Not Broken, the only podcast that

combines science, medicine, and psychology to re-educate your brain and help you live your best

to love life. And I'm your host, Ford Certified Female Urologist, Dr. Casperson.

All right, ladies, I am going live today with an amazing gynecologist, so we're just going to wait for her to come on and then hopefully we can go live together.

I'm so excited to do this. People need to hear about your knowledge. So tell everybody who you are and where you practice and then we'll go from there.

Yeah. Hi, everybody. I'm Dr. Cheruba Provocker. I'm a board

certified. Provoker, yes. I'm a board certified OBGYN and a fellowship trained minimally invasive surgeon.

And I practice in Northern California. I live in Berkeley and practice in this area in Oakland and Berkeley.

So you had reached out to me and you'd said, why don't we talk about

abnormal uterine bleeding and fibroids?

And I'm like, yeah, because people have so many questions about this.

Talk to us, just in general, like let's go through basic terminology for people.

What are fibroids?

Yeah, so fibroids are benign tumors that are made up of smooth muscle, and they are in the uterus.

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