Well, hello, hello, guys. You're listening to Beauty Bites with Dr. K. Secrets of a Plastic Surgeon, and it's time for a podcast.

We are going to talk about a very important topic for women, a very important topic of menopause.

I really hate that word, and I think we need to rebrand it.

It should be termed, you know, woman on fire period of time.

Period of life where you have irregular periods, hot flashes, hormonal changes.

If you're experiencing any of these symptoms, age 45 or older, chances are you may be going

through some menopause.

You're going to hear some sound effects in the background because I am in Monaco and I'm driving by my wonderful chauffeur, O'Reillian.

And he's taking me to the Monaco Bay Hotel where we're going to work on a project with Galderma.

So excited to lecture here this week.

So ignore those sound effects. but back to the story actually perimenopausal symptoms can start very early those of us who've had irregular period

since we were 35 you know what i'm talking about many of you have had your ovaries removed or you're on tamoxifen for breast cancer therapies.

So changes of menopause and perimenopausal symptoms affect women at many different ages.

And while most women will experience menopause at some point in their lives, statistics show that 75% of them don't actually know how to alleviate

the symptoms that come along with this. And this is because we have male-driven medicine. Sorry,

guys, but we do. We've had research driven by males. We've had companies run by males. I think if men had to experience symptoms of menopause

we would have a cure sooner than we had a man on the moon because it's very difficult and modern

medicine including most obigine doctors even including most women obigine doctors minimize

the importance of treating these symptoms.

And the crisis of not giving women hormone replacement therapy or estrogen, it all began in the 70s with a lot of studies that were released with premature results that scared people into thinking any doses of estrogen

would cause cancer and breast cancer risk. But current thinking is very different. So if you're a

person who's suffering from symptoms, it's so important to find a practitioner who's not scared

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