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Bay, you're on air with Ella, and today I am joined by Dr. Megan Lee. Hey, Dr. Megan, how are you?

Hello, I'm good. How are you doing? I'm absolutely fantastic,

delighted to be having this conversation with you because while we have talked about

perimenopause and menopause hormone therapy, there's still so many rocks to turn over

here. And I have some very specific listener questions for you that are

really targeted about menopause hormone therapy. But then Dr. Megan, I want to get into a

conversation we have not done justice. And that is GOP-1s and why people in perimenopause and

menopause might be candidates for this, even if they

has never been interested in Ozempic a day and per like. So that's where I want to go with you

today. But before we do that, would you please tell everybody who you are and what you do?

Good. I'm Dr. Megan Lee. I'm a practicing physician in the D.C., Virginia, Maryland area, and I have a focus on menopause care. So that's hormones, weight, thyroid, vitamins, gut health, you name it. If it's involved, that's what I do. But I mostly manage women in that perimenopause, menopause transition, and all that comes with it.

Okay, tell me, when women come to see you, Dr. Megan, like, what are sort of their top three challenges, the things you are hearing over and over again?

So the big ones I would say recently, I mean, I think with the GLP1 conversation, I hear a lot about weight gain. It's very rare,

I would say, out of my patients, perimenopause, menopause, that weight gain or weight is not on

that list, sleep disturbances, mood changes, and then obviously the hot flashes and night sweats,

but I think that sometimes that can be overstated because we know that that's a symptom of menopause where

there's so many other things and we discover down the line that, you know, issue ear was actually

your, you know, your menopause symptoms too. But those I think are the biggest ones.

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