E351. Why Your Doctor Might Be Wrong About Menopause - Amy Alkon

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🗓️ 14 August 2025

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Amy Alkon, investigative science author, returns to the podcast for a fascinating and frank conversation about her new book, Going Menopostal - What You (and Your Doctor) Need to Know About the Real Science of Menopause and Perimenopause. She shares the unfiltered truth about perimenopause and menopause, exposing the shocking gaps in medical care that leave women navigating a hormonal Wild West. From debunking the "estrogen is Satan" myth to revealing why most gynecologists are clueless about...

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0:00.0	I'm with Amy Alcon everybody. Welcome back to Watkins. Welcome. Thank you for being here.
0:05.0	Thanks. This is great. I'm so glad to do this with you. I'm excited to talk about your newest book, Going Metapostal, which is very near and dear to my heart. Yeah, I'm sorry to hear that. This is how we make the best you, we, this is how we make the best of it.
0:21.6	Yeah, we were just, I was just doing a podcast actually with Katie Herzog and we were
0:26.6	talking about if perimenopause is actually a thing.
0:29.6	Because if I've been joking that it sounds like something they came up with, like that
0:34.7	John Hamm meme where he's like, we'll call it perimenopause.
0:38.2	Like it's something to just sell products and facelifts to women.
0:43.3	Is perimenopause?
0:44.7	Tell us about your book.
0:45.7	And then will you answer that question for me?
0:47.8	Is perimenopause a real thing?
0:49.8	Yes, I will.
0:50.7	And in fact, this is why I wrote the book because I had a horrible
0:55.5	peri menopause it is definitely a thing and this came out of me having a hot
1:01.4	flash sitting here I'm in my very cool breezy Venice office it was a nice day
1:06.6	just sitting here I'm working and all of a sudden I'm locked in a car trunk in the Everglades.
1:12.5	And I what is wrong?
1:14.0	My whole body, it was like this like blaze of fire.
1:18.3	And I thought, oh my God, I think this is a hot flash.
1:21.5	And so I have been lucky.
1:23.5	So since 2007, he's an epidemiologist and biostatistician, one of the top in the world.
1:30.2	He's behind reforming all the bad medical research, Sander Greenland.
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