Amy Amy Alcon, welcome to slang, Sikin'I'm destined for fame. Do for the fan, not for the grand, Stunt me a destined for pain. I do not frown, I do not scam, put some respect on my name. Sick like a rain, click and I bang, y'all gonna remember the name. You all gonna remember the name. Amy Alcon, welcome to Real Talk with Zubi. How are you doing?

Doing great because I'm on your show.

Fantastic. Well, I'm happy to see you and I'm looking forward to our conversation.

Please introduce yourself to my listeners.

I'm an investigative science writer and what I do is applied science.

So I dig into the scientific database. I critically evaluate it.

And then I put out advice in

everyday language, no medical ease or science ease that people can use to actually improve their

lives. So I translate it into everyday language and then practical advice. And, you know,

you look at when you're doing this, when I would do, I had a syndicated column for many years, science-based, and then all the papers died. But I would, each week as I wrote this, there would be the advice in it. And I would have to ask myself, and I would say, I use profanity. I don't know if I'm a lot of them. But hey, a whole, would anybody actually do this? And would anybody keep doing this?

Because if not, you're really a jerk.

You're wasting people's time.

This is terrible.

And so when you do that week after week, when you write a book, you do this, you know, you're

really, really careful about it.

And my book that I just wrote is called Going Menopostal, what you and your doctor need to know about

the real science of menopause and perimenopause.

And I wrote this book because, first of all, most of our medical care is not evidence-based.

We don't know this.

And doctors are not evil.

They mean well, but there are three big myths of our medical care, and they are that doctors treat you according to scientific evidence.

And they know this because I can read the evidence and evaluate it.

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