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Her money comes to you through PRX. Hey everybody it's it's Jean Chatsky. Welcome to her money. This week I'm

excited to be sitting down with my friend Randy Hutter Epstein.

She is a medical writer, an adjunct professor at Columbia University, a lecturer at Yale,

a proud graduate of the University of Pennsylvania. Go Quakers.

She is out with her new book. I say go Quaker so much on this show, people get really, really

sick of it. But you are out with a great new book

it's called aroused which is a fabulous title by the way aroused the history of

hormones and how they control just about everything.

Randy, thanks for being here. It's good to see you.

Oh, thanks for inviting me.

So we are a Money Show, which means that I know all of our listeners who subscribe to the show are thinking okay where she going with this you know why are we talking about

hormones but let's just lay it out.

Women spend more and more of our disposable income

every single year on health care.

Especially as we get older, but for some women in their 20s and 30s hormones are an issue and they can

cost us a lot of money we should know what we're buying.

That's exactly right. Women spend a lot of money on hormones, whether they're

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