334 - Skin and Hormones

You Are Not Broken

Kelly Casperson, MD

Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Episode 334 of the You Are Not Broken podcast, Dr. Kelly Casperson discusses her upcoming book tour for 'The Menopause Moment' and dives into the relationship between menopause, hormones, and skin health. She emphasizes the importance of understanding how hormonal changes during menopause affect skin quality and overall health, advocating for the use of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) to mitigate these effects. The conversation highlights the need for better education on the benefits of hormones and challenges misconceptions surrounding their use. Takeaways The Menopause Moment book is available for pre-order. Estradiol and Estriol can be beneficial for skin health. Skin changes during menopause are significant and often distressing. Hormones play a crucial role in skin quality and health. There is a lack of awareness about the effects of low hormones on skin. HRT can improve skin elasticity and hydration. Many women are not informed about hormone therapy options. The decline in estrogen leads to decreased collagen and moisture in the skin. Preventative health measures should be supported, including hormone therapy. Skin Paper by Viscomi et al Want more honest, empowering conversations like this one?⁠⁠⁠⁠Preorder my Next Book⁠⁠⁠⁠ share this episode, and leave a review to help others find this important work. Let's stop leaving women out of the conversation—especially when it comes to sex, health, and healing. Listen to my Tedx Talk: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Why we need adult sex ed⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Take my Adult Sex Ed Master Class:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠My Website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Interested in my sexual health and hormone clinic? ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Waitlist is open⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Thanks to our sponsor ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Midi Women's Health⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Designed by midlife experts, delivered by experienced clinicians, covered by insurance.Midi is the first virtual care clinic made exclusively for women 40+. Evidence-based treatments. Personalized midlife care.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.joinmidi.com To learn more about GennaMD by Solv Wellness, visit gennaMD.com for 20% off your first order. For an additional $5 off, use coupon code DRKELLY5. Providers can request patient education materials or samples at gennaMDHCP.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the You Are Not Broken Podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Kelly Casperson, a board certified
0:06.7	jurologist, thought leader, and conversation starter on midlife living, hormones, and sexuality.
0:13.2	Enjoy the show. Hello, everybody. Welcome back to the You're Not Broken podcast. We are going to do
0:19.3	several things today. One of them
0:21.2	includes talking about this amazing paper about skin and estrogenial. Every time I want to break the
0:27.5	internet, I just tell people on Instagram that I use estriol in my face and then we basically
0:32.5	break the internet. One thing I wanted to tell you about is go to Kelly Casperson MD.com and go to my events page.
0:39.2	It's the beginning of the header.
0:41.8	You can get this via phone or laptop.
0:45.3	If you go to the events page, which is brand new, you will see all of the upcoming events for the book tour, September, October, and a teeny bit of November.
0:53.8	The six city tour, we're doing
0:55.6	Chicago, New York, Denver, L.A., Palo Alto, Seattle, and then Orlando in November. And I have a
1:03.6	Bellingham. Wait, how, okay, I got to start over. Chicago, New York, L.A., Palo Alto, Denver,
1:09.2	Orlando, Seattle, Bellingham. That is an eight city tour. Come one, come all, go to the events page. When we get links for the events, we are putting them up. I have a retreat in Sedona in the middle of all that. Does that count? Can I say nine city tour? On most of these events, just to make you go secure your ticket, most of these events are small.
1:28.6	So the biggest ones are going to be Chicago, which I think is like 250 and New York's going to be big.
1:34.5	So a couple of events in New York that are actually pretty big.
1:37.3	But the Palo Alto is pretty small.
1:39.5	L.A. is pretty small.
1:40.8	Sedona is sold out.
1:42.0	Orlando will get sold out.
1:47.0	So go to the events page starting Sunday,
1:54.9	September 14th, with me at Dr. Susan Gilbert Lenz's office in Santa Monica Boulevard that will get that link. I don't see that link on the events page right now. That's small. That's like,
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