253. Dr. Jessica Shepherd: On Menopause, HRT, and Longevity Tips for Women
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
Gary Brecka
4.8 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2026
⏱️ 82 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | We've always idealized medicine as direction in order to give someone what they need to do in order to be their best health. |
| 0:06.9 | So why is it that we have the best of research and the best of resources and we're not applying it in the way that people can actually live longer and live well? |
| 0:15.7 | The system is very expensive. |
| 0:17.4 | And by shifting some of that health care spending to these preventative care, it's almost |
| 0:21.7 | keeping people out of the system. We're classically trained as humans to ignore what your body |
| 0:27.9 | is telling you until it tells you something where it's catastrophic. This is why there is such a |
| 0:33.8 | prevalence of autoimmune disease in women because where does autoimmune prey? |
| 0:38.6 | It preys on the week. I am really trying to capture women before they hit menopause to give them |
| 0:43.5 | the best building blocks so that at 60, 70, and 80, they are optimized instead of waiting for it to be |
| 0:50.0 | a catastrophic fall off the cliff. Especially for the women and for the men that are listening. |
| 0:53.9 | Where do they start? |
| 0:55.0 | You know, Gary, that is the million dollar question. |
| 0:57.7 | Well, I do have several answers. |
| 0:59.3 | One is... |
| 1:00.0 | What if I told you that 50 million women have unnecessarily suffered for decades because of one |
| 1:18.4 | misquoted study? Today's guest is someone I've been trying to get on this podcast for months |
| 1:22.7 | because my wife, my team, and this entire community have been demanding it. Dr. Jessica Shepard is a board-certified |
| 1:29.2 | OBGYN, menopause expert, minimally invasive gynecologic surgeon, and the founder of modern |
| 1:35.0 | meno, a global community empowering women through midlife and beyond. But here's what makes her |
| 1:40.2 | different. She didn't stay in the system. She could have kept her head down, made a great living, and played by the rules. Instead, she chose to blow the whistle on her different. She didn't stay in the system. She could have kept her head down, made a great living, |
| 1:45.0 | and played by the rules. Instead, she chose to blow the whistle on how women's health has been |
| 1:49.4 | catastrophically mismanaged, and she's rewriting the playbook. In this episode, we're tearing down the |
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